The Truth On The Edge Of Vision Revealed
Have you ever felt that some critical aspect of your truth was right on the edge of your vision, just outside your view? Or had a sense of knowing that you just couldn’t quite define? Then the world rotates and suddenly the view shifts and all is clear…or at least another piece is clear? This is what I experienced – the percolation of awareness that had been rumbling inside the past several weeks bubbled to the surface today and I am thrilled to receive a new level of clarity!
I have been exploring the energies around my yoga in relation to sleep and ideals of yogic practice for a far amount of time, which I have shared in other posts. The upshot is that the daily ideal expectation of rising in the early hours of the morning and doing a particular set of reading, yoga and meditations which lasts about 2-2 1/2 hours has not appealed to me. Fine, I let the ideal go but was still searching for how to hold my daily yoga – did it have to look a specific way with a specific amount of time at a certain hour of the day? I felt inside that it didn’t need a specific structure yet was still internally conflicted. And why, if I truly know that yoga serves me so well, am do I have such resistance to holding not only the morning ideal and adding more lifestyle pieces?
Suddenly, in a flash of clarity that seems so obvious I can’t believe I didn’t see it before, I got it today. One of the pieces that first attracted me to Kundalini Yoga in the first place was that it is designed for the householder to integrate into their already busy lives and so can work in small snippets. I love the idea and reality that a three minute meditation completely shifted a deep rooted pattern for me and expanded my life powerfully. I love this not only for myself but for my equally busy clients. In my work as a BodyMind Coach, I am known for helping people discover tools and techniques that add value and create powerful shifts without adding further burdens of time or drains of energy. I meet individuals whereever they are at and simply start with small, consistent steps forward. The theme of my work and this energy is that it doesn’t have to be hard, time consuming, radically different or daunting but rather filled with ease, simple integration, effective yet time managable tools. And this is why I have “resisted” the larger expectations of the yoga lifestyle…it doesn’t fit with who I am, the core truth of myself. This core truth is that expansion doesn’t have to be life consuming to be effective. That many paths lead to enlightenment. That small, steady commitment is powerful.
At least this is my awareness and acceptance today. Now that I’ve embraced this new awareness, it might open to the door to further expansion in a way that allows me to bring more pieces into my life with ease. And if I look at what I already do daily, I have already integrated many lifestyle yogic pieces into my life, just not in the exact laid out look of the Kundalini tradition. And that’s ok because it honors another critical part of my truth…I don’t feel the need to walk an exact path of religion, philosophy or culture…instead I revel in exploring the many faces of truth of different traditions.
And as I become aware today of these aspects of my truth and how I am honoring them, not only do I have clarity but I also have a deep peace. Aaah.
Tags: acceptance, awareness, ease, resistance, truth, yoga
BodyMind Coaching | admin | 
June 7, 2009 7:19 am
Subscribe