Where two worlds meet
04 Jan 2011 Leave a Comment
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This past week I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to assist my amazing teacher Todd Norian at the Kripalu center for yoga and health for a week long holiday retreat. I return home completely charged with the awesome vibe that Todd and my amazing Kula (community of the heart) create. Once again after a long and inspiring retreat I feel totally fired up and ready to go. I leave, taking with me a great sense of fullness. This is a feeling of complete wholeness, support and a trust that the Universal always conspires in my favour. A feeling that I am so utterly happy simply just Being…
So here I am, I arrive home after a 6 hour drive and its 30 min to midnight on New Years Eve; I set my bags down and well….my first thought “back to reality”. Dishes to wash, bags to unpack, cat to tend to and let me not mention the rest of the long list of things going through my head in that one split second. So here is the big question; how do you integrate your spiritual or yoga lifestyle within ‘everyday’ happenings and to do’s?
How do you get passionate about your life even within the moments of the mundane?
I have a fridge magnet that I bought years ago and it reads “Be in Awe of what you have seen before but never thought about.” In my mind it is not only about the ‘Awe’ but it is about a discipline or rather as my teacher Todd says “a discipleship”. It is about being a disciple to yourself (to the divine within), a discipleship to the life you lead or to the life you want to have. Ask yourself “How do I want to feel today?” and with every breath and every thought dedicate yourself to serving only the highest within your life…within yourself. Place your heart in even the simplest of moments of your life. In Tantric philosophy we say that this life is a gift, it to be honoured. Not principally that, but in addition my teacher Bill Mahoney says “Your birth is a miracle, your being here is a miracle. So why are you wasting your valuable energy on things that do not matter.” You get one life and it is precious, so don’t waste it…even the small parts of it.
So when you make your morning coffee or tea, prepare supper, get the kids dressed and head off to work, or whatever it is you do in the seemingly mundane moments of your life, take a small sec to ask yourself “Am I living this moment fully? Will I get this moment back? And then depending on what your answer is (if you’re catching the essence of this blog then hopefully the answer is “Yes, I want to live this moment fully!”) then step into the present; be conscious in every moment of your life, as many moments as possible. “Get into” the small things within your life and make them spiritual, make them fun, make them valuable. In my mind this is living life to its fullest. This is truly living through your heart. Don’t live in the next step. Live in the moment.
