All I had to do was clean the screen on my computer, and the world looks different! Okay, the world as it comes through the computer… which for most of us is a good chunk of the world! Truly, everything on the screen feels lighter, cleaner, free of clutter and haziness.
This morning, when I started my yoga practice, I could feel several conversations running through my mind. These are conversations were ones that I had not yet had!!! The internal dialogue involved situations with two of our children, and I was letting the whole dialogue unfold, based on past experience.
Recognizing what was going on between my ears was the first major step. I did not want to give up my yoga time to a visualization of the day ahead of me. What have I been taught to do in these moments – to go to the breath first. Yes, the breath. Inhale, feel how this calms, exhale, let planning and strategizing go. Inhale, feel the beautiful freedom of being in my body, exhale, fall into my own Inner Peace.
By the end of the first Sun Salutation I had released the conversations. Staying focused on the immediate world around me, I moved through the yoga practice with presence and lightness.
And what followed? That is what everyone wants to know? Right. Well, not the conversations that I had been imagining and wasting my life concocting. One of the situations did not readily resolve itself, and the other situation never occurred! The behavior that I had anticipated did not surface!!!
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| With all of these boys there is rarely a dull emotional moment for the ever functioning mother! |
May the lightness of our Inner Beauty be the voice that dominates throughout our day.
Shanthi