Author: pmcrose

In yoga and meditation, we open ourselves to survey the landscape of our being.

Rather than imposing a peace that resists our harmonies and cacophonies, we find a peace amidst them.

This is yoga in the world, not yoga to escape this world!

Now is the simultaneous harmonic and dissonant convergence, a harmony and a cacophony of thoughts, feelings, and events.

Yoga and meditation can help open us to open to and embrace the fullness of this convergence and even to find the seemingly impossible peace and stillness within it.

* Artwork pictured is Convergence, 1952 by Jackson Pollock

Meditation and yoga can help us rediscover our ever-changing center amidst the cacophony of life… again… and again!

Meditation massages your thoughts to relax them,

to slow them down from an uncontrollable avalanche…

to a trickle.

In stillness, even worried thoughts dissipate and dissolve, renewing our perspective and uplifting our heart.

Through meditation and yoga, we can rise up like the phoenix.

Our worries become the ashes.

Rise up!

Worry and fear obscure the freedom that surrounds us.

Yoga and meditation can help us step beyond their confines into wide open spaces.

Worry is a sly thief that will stealthily rob you of your your joy, happiness, and inner peace. It will surreptitiously pocket and abscond with them keeping them well out of sight so that it can lead you sadly and nervously on its agitated bleak path.

Take this thief to the mat… your yoga mat, that is… and reclaim your joy!

Worry is a crisis of faith, trust, and confidence.

As we increasingly learn to trust that we have the ability to face and handle whatever comes our way, we can significantly decrease our worry.

Yoga and meditation can help foster this triumph of spirit!

As we “polish” our worries with our attention, they do not shine brightly to lift our spirits but act as loadstones to keep us weighted down, not free.

Rather than focus on our passing worries, acknowledge them, give them their due, and then bid them adieu. Instead, focus with diligence on your inner peace and let your good cheer reveal the sunniness within.

The drop of the ocean does not need to know it’s the ocean to be the ocean.

Such it is with the ego or the small self. It does not need to know it’s the universal or the Self to be the Self.

But knowing this as a human being can make all the difference in this world.

Great love and respect are born of this realization!