Author: pmcrose

Yoga and meditation can help us shift our perspective.

In ways seemingly impossible, these practices can change our minds,

and thereby our very experience.

Yoga and meditation and all the practices including chanting and contemplation/self-study help realign me to that which is greater than I am, to that which is universal.

As it draws me more into alignment to itself, I grow quieter and quieter.

Wow, finally something that can shut me up!

When we laugh, we detach,

and when we cry, we detach.

Detachment seems a condition of our greatest inner peace and deepest happiness.

Smile, yoga and meditation support our detachment and deepest happiness.

Unconditional love has no conditions.

Think about it…

It just is…

Limitless to forever.

Some friends only want to be around when you are happy.

Yoga is not just a fair-weather friend.

In fact, yoga’s practices are alway available–asanas or poses, pranayama or breath work, self-study and contemplation of sutras or teachings, chanting, seva or selfless service….

When overwhelmed or in the midst of adversity, even the briefest of visits to any of these practices can shift our perspective, restoring us to our center, uplifting us and those around us.

No matter what the circumstances, your friend yoga is there for you!

Don’t you forget it!

We all know the sense of getting absorbed or lost wholly in a task, especially a creative one, and losing track of time.

Such is stillness in meditation–a seemingly endless expanse to become absorbed in… maybe for only a moment,

but for a moment that seemingly stretches forever!

The witness observes with detachment the fluctuations of our being.

The awareness or consciousness from which everything arises is self aware.

Witness from stillness the constant movement.

Even with complete strangers and our enemies, we share the most intimate part of ourselves, the vital life force.

Like a still mountain lake mirrors its surroundings, so too the mind free of turbulence.

Yoga and meditation help to decrease this turbulence.

Anger is like a blindfold.

It blinds us to the ever-present joy and bliss inherent and independent of circumstance in the moment.