Peace does not necessarily mean flatlining all other emotions and feelings–
not the peace that is the essence of all other feelings, or encompasses all other… like the hands that hold it all freely, yet securely, lovingly and respectfully.
Through our yoga and meditation, we can go within and explore this essential peace at the heart or root of our being.
May your life be a puja*, offering yourself to the highest, to the universal, to the light.
Meditate on and celebrate this light.
It will make you…
lighter!
*puja–in Sanskrit, honor, reverence, adoration, and worship
From our yoga practices, waves of peace, like moonlight, indiscriminately cast on the landscape of our our thoughts and emotions… and lessen our agitation.
Asanas can help us with our asana.
A regular practice of yoga poses, asanas, can help us gain the steadiness and the suppleness for a stable and comfortable seated posture for meditation, our asana.
It’s all about your asana!
Wrapped in your most comfortable blanket, you start to have a feel for what peace feels like.
Now, imagine this as your inner being….
For this, we can make the effort to give up our attachments to habitual cycles of inner agitation. Such habitual attachments can be difficult to let go of, they are so subtly habitual, but…
Completely worth it!
In the silence are the echoes of peace.
Right effort in mediation is a bit like holding a baby chick.
Squeeze it too hard, it is lifeless; too loosely, it escapes.
Whatever you focus on in meditation–whether it be the breath, a mantra, a sacred image…
hold it like a chick!
To feel and hear the distant train, one can (with caution, of course!) put one’s ear to the track.
Similarly, during our yoga and meditation, when we feel or “hear” even the whisper of peace or joy, we can pause
and become absorbed in its peal and echoing reverberations throughout our being.
When light meets light, there is great ease.
We meditate and do yoga to feel and drink up even glimpses of this ease… and tranquility!
It’s amazing how a little bit can go such a long way….
Repeat “namaste”–with your hands in Anjali mudra with the base of your thumbs pressed against your lifted chest in the region of your heart.
Bow your head slightly.
Honor the light that is in you and me, being each of us.
Feel the peace in this. Taste the peace in this. Pause, and take a moment to imbibe this peace, and ride its waves…
and share it with everyone!
The Every Day Yogi 