CREATE CONDITIONS FOR YOUR LIFE TO OPEN
March 30, 2011
“Yoga is the practice of creating the conditions for opening to occur. We learn to relax and open up to more feelings than just those that are comfortable or familiar. This kind of opening allows us to being to make friends with the variety of our own human repertoire of experiences.” This explanation from Cindy Lee of Om Yoga really hits home.
I have learned through this practice that I create my reality from the inside out. Or as James Allen writes "The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs." I come to the mat to purposefully create the conditions that I want to experience in my life. If I want more ease then I practice the poses in an easeful way. If I want more enthusiasm then I perform the asanas joyfully! If I need more courage then I face my fears going upside down and stoke my courage. Whatever I want my world to be more of I try out on the mat so it is reflected back to me when I go out into the world.
And I have learned that the conditions I create in my mind relate not just to the next moment of my life but sequentially to the moments that follow. Or as the Buddha says, “All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
Today take responsibility for your life! Create the conditions that serve you best and renew your commitment that this is the day we no longer blame situations or people or things for our happiness but we see the world from the inside out. I wish you all your own best courage, gentleness and clarity. Love yourself, love your day, love your life! Silvia
YOGA PLAYLIST
Yellow, Jem, Sweetheart
River Flows In You, Yiruma, First Love (Yiruma Piano Collection)
Gobinday Mukunday, Spirit Voyage Artists, Yoga Living Series - Temple Spa
Ardes Bhaee, Mirabai Ceiba, Jamtse - Love & Compassion (An Offering for the Tibet Fund)
Song for You, Alexi Murdoch, Away We Go Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
New People {Empire Remix}, Blue Scholars, New People {Empire Remix}
Hate It Or Love It, 50 Cent & G Unit, The Massacre
Morning Mr Magpie, Radiohead, The King Of Limbs
Karaoke, Drake, Thank Me Later
Still, Wade Imre Morissette, Strong As Diamonds
Gayatri Mantra, Bruce Becvar & Nada Shakti, Samadhi
Chandra (The Moon), Michael Mandrell and Benjy Wertheimer, Anjali
River Flows In You, Yiruma, First Love (Yiruma Piano Collection)