2015 is just around the corner. It's incredible how a handful of numbers can have an impact our lives. Allow change to happen but remain calm and keep a collective mind so complexities that arise do not overwhelm. Change happens all around us and often goes unnoticed...large ant beds spring up overnight, mood shifts of your partner without cause, hours fly by during a painting session... Change often catches one off guard leaving one with an "I'M NOT READY YET!!!!!" feel pressuring you to act now. You are ready. You have always been ready to face whatever you need to look in the eye, or move as you heart leads. Everything required to face change is in your possession. Breathe in deeply and exhale those feelings of worry, fear, and doubt. You've got this. Be flexible with change or dread its heaviness weighing down your pockets. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of carrying around excess baggage!
I tend to use weather conditions as excuses/reasons for not sticking with my personal practice. Unfortunately, the only one who misses out on the benefits of a home practice is myself. We are already habituated to following a schedule and doing things we may or may not always enjoy. For example, eating breakfast at the same time each morning, filling the car's gas tank full when prices are nearly $4/gallon, paying bills, sending birthday cards, minor surgeries, Downton Abbey every Sunday evening, etc.. What are your priorities? What is important to you and what are your plans to make it happen? You can fit 15 minutes or more of yoga practice into your daily routine without doing a full series of poses. Yoga is more than poses, in case you didn't know. On your own is your chance to take some tools from your yogic toolbox and put them to work off the mat whether it is taking several long breaths while you're driving to the the in-laws for brunch, using the grocery cart as a prop. while practicing "tree" in a long line, testing out a few supine poses before getting out of bed each morning, or consciously noticing when your body sends you signals of tension when your puppy found comfort in the confetti of your business report's final draft. Test run a few of these ideas or create your own this week.
As I enjoyed an evening walk watching cloud puffs change to various blues, I noticed a couple of white birds sloshing through a murky creek. Ah...dinnertime. They quickly moved across the stretch poking their coral beaks into the wet darkness so automatically as if they just knew, without conscious thought, what was edible and how it benefited their bodies. It seems, unfortunately, we have moved further into a disconnect of this knowing what food and drink products are good for our individual bodies. Never you fear! Our bodies still give us cues, subtle as they may be, as to what nutrition we need...sort of in the form of cravings. The challenge is to differentiate the cravings for nutrition from alternate meanings in disguised. You may already be aware of these costumed urges. See if you notice the difference throughout your week. Maybe even try asking the food or drink item, "Is this what my body wants?". Your body generally will respond with a physical sensation.
A creek has water that trickles freely from one end to the next. It is smooth and seamless. If there are stones and rocks in this path, the flow can still happen though interrupted. If more and more stones and rocks pile up in the creek, a dam forms thus pooling water on one side and effecting the other side dramatically. The energy channels in the body act similarly. When things in our outside world effect our natural internal creek, blockages form that may be harmful. By going inward, one can regularly check out the balance of the internal creek and make the adjustments for a seamless flow. Although it may seem impossible or only slightly familiar, you already know how to do this. You are already perfect, remember?
Rain storms may put a damper (ha) in plans. This halt in activity is a great chance to catch up on cat naps, reading, and quiet time with yourself. Those shape-shifting droplets fill leaves like cups, trickle down waxed windshields, and plop plop plop onto steaming pavement all the while providing a soothing pitter-patter rhythm to sing any tempting couch potato to sleep. Use the weather to rejuvenate from lifestyles that call you to go go go. Allow yourself to surrender to nature's call.
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