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JANUARY 22, 2010:  At those times in my life where things haven’t made much sense whether it be the passing away of my Dad at a young 59 years old, or seeing the beloved grandmother of a friend ill with cancer or the injustice of nature made disasters like in Haiti.  The torture of trying to understand such things with the limitations of our human mind are not the answer.  Consciousness is united in the heart say the Yoga Sutras in the first chapter!  Our minds yoga teacher/poet Danna Faulds says “may never find the answers they seek so save your energy to swim with the tide.”  If we attempt to solve the incomprehensible with our mind we will simply go in circles maybe into madness.  The way to keep flowing, to keep living is to let the mind rest and listen with your heart. 

“Go to the truth beyond the mind.

Love is the bridge” (Stephen Levine)

The challenge of our humanity is so often we again forget the heart consciousness and go back to trying to make sense of why things happen with our mind. Here for a moment imagine your mind like a lake.  The heart under the surface of the water wants your mind to remain like a quiet lake.  But we allow our minds to get highly disturbed and the waters grow so rough that we lose clarity.  A smooth surface of water can reflect the outer world clearly (like trees or birds or clouds reflected in the mirror like surface of water). However if the surface is chopped up we cannot reflect the sky nor can we see under the surface deeper within ourselves.  The yoga will help you as does all meditation to quiet the water and dive into the heart.  That way you can understand not with your mind but with your heart. Then the heart’s wisdom is viewed as the quiet on the surface of the lake in our mind.

Emotional upheaval just churns up the water. But even in the washing machine at some point the machine stops and the clothes get to rest. So my friends come to yoga class and rest your mind.  Try not to over understand the why of things happening around you nor trouble the mind by over thinking the decisions you are making for yourself.  Instead just listen to your heart.

And remember that all is eternal. We are all but waves…and change is constant.  Love in all ways, Silvia

“Not with thoughts of your mind, but in the believing

Sweetness of your heart, you snap the link and open the

Golden door and disappear into the bright room, the

Everlasting ecstasy, eternal Now.   (Jack Kerouac)