Take a moment to become still…..Listen to the vibrational hum of your being. Quiet your mind, tune in to your inner being, and listen to the ever-broadcasting radio station that is you. What types of energy signals are you broadcasting in this moment? What vibrations from your life experiences resonate within? When you practice your yoga, are you able to untangle the physical sensation and the emotions attached to those sensations? Are you able to feel your experiences and ask to heal? Are you willing?
When I tune in for a moment, I can feel that I’m radiating happiness, gratitude, and joy. I truly love my life and the people in it. I can sense God’s purpose in my life and Him leading me. I can sense my life’s experiences deep within, embodied in my physical being, and they alter the way in which I move, perceive and act in this world. They are deep and they are hard. They are soft and they are coruscating. I have the dark and twisty as well as the truly shiny. It's simple and utterly complex. The energy signal I’m emitting isn’t a thought. It’s a frequency. I might describe this frequency in words, but I can never get the words quite right because human language is inadequate to the task. If I try to describe my current signal anyway, I might use the following adjectives: flowing, smiling, happy, grateful, peaceful, soaring, white, soft, strong, expanding, warm, mindful, smooth, energized, and bursting with love despite the deep, dark shadows that used to scare the hell out of me.
I can also tune into signals from my environment. I can sense that my belly is broadcasting satiety since I just had breakfast (a mixed green salad and some olives). I can observe that it’s 73 degrees F outside. I can hear soft music coming from my bluetooth speakers (sound is yet another vibration). I can subtly perceive John's (my husband), Ryan's (my daughter), and Jax’s (my son) signals transmitting from the next room. If I become still enough, I can feel the combined energy of close friends and family as well as my teachers and students and even those that have only met me through Upward Blog. Overall, I can sense the signals I’m sending out and the signals coming from my environment are in sync. I feel happy, peaceful, and abundant, and my environment reflects that.
Recently, I had the awesome chance of getting caught up with a friend. I got all the timeline facts since we were in touch last; you know, the proverbial stats of family, state of being, where we have lived and job. The last time we were together was almost 20 years ago. We are both very different from who we both were as individuals and as friends and yet at the same time, we are very much the same. We fell together as if no time had passed…..a mark of a true friend. As conversations unfolded and I became more grounded in the moment I was hanging in, I was able to see the soul of my friend; beyond the gregarious, enthusiastic, and sarcastic exterior that I love so much and into the dark and twisty interior. An interior I sensed way back in our history, but never let myself sit with it because sitting still with someone’s inner being was daunting and sitting with my own inner being was well,….quite frankly, not going to happen because it was terrifying.
Our energy signature is the summation of all the signals we’re sending out and all of that which we have experienced in our life. It is the good, the bad, and the ugly. It is the magnificent, the fantastic, and the brilliant. Our thoughts and feelings aren’t the cause of these signals though; our thoughts and feelings are actually effects of the energy stored within. If you have ever come to my yoga classes you probably have heard me say, “Our experiences become our biology.” Our life is embodied in our physical being. Yoga is a tool that allows us to connect and navigate through the maze of our entangled web of life. We naturally attract that which is in harmony with our state of being, and we repel that which is out of sync with our state. If we change the signal we’re emitting, our thoughts and feelings will shift as well.
Shift……what a great word. It is a verb or a noun. Both indicate a change or transfer from one place, position, direction, person, etc., to another. We have the opportunity to shift in each moment. Every choice we make, every thought we have, the words we speak, the actions we take…..they can all create shift; shift within ourselves as well as in others whether we are aware of it or not. Life can also shift us through experiences beyond our control or doing. They can be positive or negative. The shift can happen in an instant or it can linger like a slow fade that brings us to another space and place, gently and without our knowing…we just end up there….we arrive there. This act of permutation (alteration or transformation) can be so subtle, yet these subtleties can be life altering. They can take us to a higher vibration where we find the wings of an eagle and soar above and beyond what we ever thought possible. We also can be held back by them because a though/feeling was planted and took seed with or without our conscious knowing. We can be caged and we can be set free.
In yoga we are called to be present in each and every moment and this, my friends, is a hard skill to master and is one the must be continually pursued. To be fully present with those around us is deep. It's penetrating. It changes lives no matter if it is with someone we love or with an interaction with a stranger. It is when we pause to drink in who is in front of us that creates shift. Our awareness of their state of being comes to light and we can offer a kind smile to our stranger or acquaintance to ease the pain behind their eyes and to offer the safety of our arms where everything works to those we love. To see beyond one’s face facade and see within is truly a gift. To request authentic vulnerability and allow yourself to sit still and create a container for their space and them for you is unique….it is bold…it is vulnerable…and is love. The questions is can we be brave enough to ask what we only sense and to step lightly into those spaces? Some of us sense things within others deeply and in detail….others of us get ‘gut feelings’…..these are the same skill only one is a more cultivated version. Either way, it is a gift that should not be ignored.
When we take our yoga into the world, we shift and those around us shift. Shift happens! Some are intimidated by it and others are drawn into like a magnet to a refrigerator. They want and long for the connection. When we operate at the soul level everything changes. We SHIFT. Our heart space shifts and will be forever changed. A piece of our heart and our being will store this encounter. which can be wrong or it can be right. If can reveal angels and devils and God…….but ultimately, we are all perfect in the messiness of our own lives. We are all ONE. When we miss the pull of another’s heart…….we miss the chance to transform into a deeper level of consciousness and connection.
My friend was a little weirded out by some of my inquiries and how I knew certain things. My friend is not a yogi, but had done some yoga classes. I was questioned as to HOW I know. In all fairness, I have no idea how I know, but I do. I was trusted enough to receive the responses to my questions and to explore a lot of things more deeply. I was challenged and calmed with all that was ours in history along with the moment from our encounter being pregnant and hanging with no direction. It is sacred. It is vaulted and it is free. It is perfect and it is a mess. It is honest and it is veiled. Is it a beginning? Is it an end? Or a space without borders? No matter what, our hearts were, are, and will continually be open. Open to one another and to continued conversations. We have entered into a new space and shifted together and also separately. It is simply brilliant.
Your energy signal…..Are you aware? Maybe yes….maybe not yet. Are you aware of this in others? Again, maybe yes or maybe not yet. Remember we are all on our own path, and we will be ready when we are ready, according to our own timeline—not anyone else’s. It is what makes yoga brilliant and our yoga instills within us the simple and profound fact of meeting people and ourselves where we are at.
So......to my friend who may or may not ever read this…..you already know this for I told you face to face, but just as a reminder…..Forgetting all I’m lacking, completely incomplete…..I’ll take your invitation. I’m honored to be invited and share this sacred space. I’m hanging by a moment here with you. You are my favorite and I love you wildy.
For everyone else….Be present. Dare greatly and make the shift. It changes everything.
Onward and upward. Namaste.
