Inner Work. Go For It.
I often share with my clients and those close to me that “I am Absolutely Work in Progress”. I, too, ride the waves of life. I am in it just like the rest of humanity. Yet, I have a personal goal to keep transforming, and evolving. Furthermore, I want to master riding the tides of life with harmony and peace. I practice and I am focused on learning how to drop in and ride every wave that life gives me with grace.
The inner work is liberating, humbling and deeply personal. During this time of year, many of you might feel alone, grief and/or vulnerable. If inspired you might decide to tap into the the possibility within these emotions, situations, memories and internal experiences. It is right there within the disharmony, the pain and/or fear…the ease is just on the other side of that energy you might feel in your mind, heart, body and/or soul. The freedom rests right there…beyond that threshold. The simple way to move with the dis’ease’ and liberate the uncomfortable is to be of service to life.
I was reflecting on this poem by Mother Theresa that I included in my book, Bare Naked Bliss, (page 176). The inspiration to share this poem was something Dr. Wayne W. Dyer shared in one of his lectures. He and Mother Theresa both seemed to encourage everyone to go for it anyways. My encouragement in Bare Naked Bliss: Loving from Within is to identify how you can serve with your gifts “anyway”. It is my deepest knowing from my own trial and errors that if I am not in service to life (not as a martyr but as a genuine act of service) life can be unforgiving. Ultimately, the grasping for sense pleasures, material gain and to satiate the ego will increase. In addition, when on is not in service to at least one aspect of living, one will move further away from becoming self-reliant and retaining harmony with self and the world at large. In the end, when you are inspired to be in service to life, you will experience how the momentum of service will continue to provide you with more to give anyway. The energy of authentic service will always leave lasting ripple effects.
As inspired, here is the poem for your contemplation and inner reflection.
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Then, welcome remembering your natural state of being…harmony and bliss. At this juncture you will naturally come from a place of service from moment to moment. When you are in harmony you are not making any effort, you will be at ease. You do not have to consciously by “mindful” because it will ‘BE’ your natural state of being. Furthermore, you will be objectively aware of how our thoughts, words and actions will potentially intersect each moment and what the true nature of cause and effect. When in this state of being, it is no longer just about you.
I share this because I had a beautiful experience yesterday teaching yoga to a group of individuals transforming their relationship to eating and self. One of the students shared her discomfort with her body and how difficult it was to participate or even watch me teach her. We talked through what this meant for her, she shared how uncomfortable she was in her body. Which is common side effect of an eating disorder. Rather than just pacifying her with a pep talk and ask her to try the class as I had planned, I asked her to share the postures that she is comfortable with. After some contemplation, she came up with child’s pose, prone posture and corpse. A (3) posture class. We went deep moving from child’s pose to prone and then they rolled over and they received sound in corpse. By moving through this class slowly the magic of a posture and the breath opened the students up to physical, emotional, spiritual and mental releases. This student cried for the first time and was able to experience yoga. As I share with all my yoga students, the asana (postures) are only one limb of yoga and they are what prepares the mind, body, heart and soul for meditation. In addition, I share the entire purpose of yoga is to welcome self into meditation while in corpse pose. When you master corpse you have mastered yoga. While, it is incredible to see what the human body will do and how supple the body can ‘BE’…no amount of “doing” will bring you to meditative repose. Furthermore, yoga was never intended to be an activity to show off your body…you will sense that yoga is starting to crack you open when the ‘I’ retires with the your senses and your inner ethics rise ‘UP’. The grasping starts to fall away and the mind with the heart are clear and open. Humility…is what ultimately leads you to this union (yoga) with self. READ MORE (CLICK HERE)
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