As I shared last month, God has me on a path to delve in deeper
into my heart and His. To lean into Him. To trust Him. To ignore my need for
control and release the reigns to Him over my life. He is showing me how to live
from a space of love, pure love, and let go of ways I have clung to—logic,
reason, and strategic thinking. I am being
tutored on how to rely on gut instinct and to deeply trust my intuition. Over
the last two years, this ride has been wild and full of unexpected surprises
and realizations. Realizing things that no longer serve me and letting them go
with acceptance…with honor…with grace. I am being taught to let go of agendas
and results in order to trust the process and that the results will be there
even though they may not be the results I think they should be. I have had a
person come into my life and show me a new way to love and to connect. I have
had a friend step deeper into fellowship with me and they have become the iron
that sharpens my iron. I have a long-time friend surface and offer advice in
the most random way in the most appropriate moment and in the exact words I needed
to hear. I have been challenged and convicted
to look at where I am standing, what I am doing, what am I standing for, and
how I move through this world. I have
had prayer answered in the most unbelievable, tangible way so there was no way
I could chalk it up to coincidence.
Our thoughts and emotions
are like a movie constantly playing on the inner screen of our mind. We need to
discipline our minds instead of letting our minds to go rogue. If we leave our
mind untrained and it will often veer toward negativity—fear, drama, anger,
unhappiness, dissatisfaction, general sense of malaise, complaining, self-pity
and self-loathing. It can also veer into the realms of desire, of playing the
what-if game, seeing different realities as a greener pasture, and wanting
things that are not meant to be ours or don’t belong to us. We make ourselves feel
safe by fitting everything in a box. But really, this control is an illusion
and adherence to dogmas that leave us stuck in a legalistic code that is dead. These
are the resting points of an untrained mind and the root of suffering. On our
mats is where we carefully train our mind and turn our attention to our inner
world.
Just like in asana, where
our eyes go, our mind follows. Where our attention goes, our mind goes and our thoughts frame our actions. Our actions
frame the state of our heart. What overflows form our heart will overflow out
our mouths. It is in this way, we create our own reality. We in essence,
need to be willing to sacrifice these familiar ways of being and thinking. We
need to be willing to surrender into something bigger and let the old ways go.
It’s tempting to meet the shadow side of the mind with rules, regulations and
moral codes. Yoga philosophy teaches us to throw our arms around that tiger and
embrace the shadow side of us. In order to learn what is light, we must learn
what is dark. Slowly, through introspection, we remove the veils which keep us
in the dark so that our light shines brighter. We become more brilliant.
In our lives, every breath counts. Every single act in our life
has richness and purpose. What we need to understand is the most meaningful
moments of life are private moments of rapture, of ecstasy, of peace, and
of connection. Each of us is called to
be the light in the darkness. The light of the world can come into our heart
and ignite the spark of Spirit. We just need to ask. Then the lamp of our soul
can shine with heaven’s light. We can be filled with transcendent knowledge and
ignite others to do the same.
Are we willing to delve deeper? Can we challenge ourselves to instead,
live in Spirit? Can we let the light
fill us up so powerfully there is simply no choice but to embrace the clarity
of truth? Can we shine so bright so we blind people who don’t want to recognize
our greatness? Can we grow so big so no one’s smallness will ever bring us down?
Can we all agree to RISE ABOVE and BEYOND?
If I could sum it all up into one truth: God is love and His
love conquers all. Live IN it. BE it. DO it.
Onward and upward as always….
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