Author: pmcrose

Yoga is the ultimate Uber service that delivers us to our experience of the highest–a real Lyft!

Such kind and generous service!

The inner smile does not try to control the flow of thought and feeling.

It witnesses their flow and subsequent ripples and allows them to eventually dissipate and settle.

In this way, the inner smile carries us into silence.

The inner smile–accepting and soft, warm and loving and ever-compassionate–can bring peace to the turbulent mind.

Most simply, it invites, welcomes, and assures the mind to settle.

Smile at this moment. You have now to be rooted in.

There is ease in contentedness as well as comfort.

Make this moment your seat, your asana!

Direct your inner smile to your body.

Feel your strength and fragility, and open the door to this wondrous human organism we all are…

and but a mere drop in this menagerie of life.

Like a sailor by the stars, align your being to the highest with the inner smile.

Reach for your highest star to live by!

The inner smile invites a deep inner peace, santosha, a happiness beyond the smile–an ease and poetry of being we call yoga!

The rose pictured is Peace.

Why do I carry these hurts of the heart around with me like prized possessions?

Isn’t it time I gave these to goodwill?

There is so much we cannot change. But we can change our perspective and feeling.

An inner smile, and even a laugh, can ease stress and welcome more positive energy.

This simple practice may not change the world, but it can and will change your world!

What does smiling cost you, but the deep unhappiness and fear you hold onto?

Old habits* die hard, but eventually dissolve and wain in the presence of our natural and innate luminosity.

Practice the inner smile as you do your yoga and meditate!

*of attachment and identification