It's Sunday morning and I am filling in at our Plexus Nemours Center. This is not my normal Sunday morning routine. Normally I am home playing with the kids and hanging out with Sara. I spent the morning grading papers for our Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program. Part of our curriculum involves homework where the participants share their insights. We have an amazing group of students this year in our YTT. I thoroughly enjoyed reading their thoughts and revelations. Sometimes I wonder who the teacher really is.
I have noticed that many people experience a special feeling along the yoga path called perpetual awakening. This feeling comes with consistent practice of yoga and meditation. I too experience this awakening. From time to time I feel like I have been asleep at the wheel while navigating through my life. Suddenly I’ll awaken with a jolt of adrenaline - my arms stiffen up and my eyes become twice their normal size. It is this "Holy Shit Experience". I then settle back into my life with a new found sense of alertness. Have you ever dozed off at the wheel?
The experience of awakening was a common theme in the YTT papers I graded. They’ve begun to understand their minds and their lives with a greater sense of clarity. It is through this experience that we gain greater insight into the life we are living and things we have attracted into our lives thus far.
We are energetic beings living in an energetic world. This is not “New Age Philosophy.” Quantum physics teaches that we are constantly sending energy into our environment through our thoughts and actions. We then attract the same energy we send out. When we are unconscious to our thoughts and actions many times we unskillfully create our future. As we become more aware of our energy we can better co-create our future. By thinking something over and over again we have to power to manifest that. This is a VERY powerful concept incredibly described in Dr. David R. Hawkins’ "Power vs. Force”.
Today is day 41 of the yoga challenge. I practiced four times this week which gives me a total of 36 practices. This week Jimmy is at his Dads so I am hoping to get in six practices. Namaste.
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Awake, asleep and in between- perhaps, the bard wrote, to dream.
You might think otherwise, or at least have another "aha" moment
when you read Robert Holden's "Happiness Now."
The British psychologist with a radical approach sprinkles his tome blessed by Oprah with wonderful yogi wit and wisdom.
As practicing yogis and yoginis know -- it's often one breath at a time,and in between, where we have the opportunity to make choices of thought and deed -- that attracts more of the same
In "Happiness Now," as in asana practice, you are encouraged to focus on what is right - a simple formula to experience the joy for which we were created.
Yes, happiness. We all deserve it.
Have you ever thought, "This is all too good to be true" or "All good things come to an end"?
When it comes to happiness, so many of us think we have to sweat, earn, yearn, and and pay for it.
Hmm, maybe you've thought that on the mat when struggling in a pose.
Maybe you think, happiness is not today, it's someday. Today, we have must suffer hardship and quiet desperation.
Holden makes it clear with his meditations, exercises, prayers and poems, that happiness is for the now! That's what yoga brings to me when I am tuned in and stop trying so hard. When I can smile exactly where I am, accepting that. There's joy!
The emotional healing Holden talks about comes from self-acceptance, inner confidence, and pure peace of mind-- and yes,yoga is part of the prescription.
If anyone is ready to expereince another "aha" moment, then you would enjoy this lovely read. Blessings,Janice Roosevelt
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