Whenever you come across a difficult situation,
or encounter a difficult person,
or find yourself in a difficult yoga pose …..
Pause and bring awareness inwards.
Notice rigid thinking or tense feelings
Contraction in your body or around your heart.
Take a full breath in and a long full exhale of release.
Let softness flow through the whole of your being.
Nourishing and restoring
Life in balance
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“We are so unused to emotion
that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness,
any sense of the unknown for fear,
and any sense of peace, for boredom.
We are so schooled away from the life below, that anything beneath scares us.”
~ Mark Nepo from “The Book of Awakening”
It’s a scary place to start to look at ourselves beneath the surface. To face who we are when no one is looking.
We are afraid of what we might find and the depth of our feeling. Yet this is the place where the heart can truly open to all the experiences and feelings that have been denied.
I like how Mark Nepo reflects, “When we bring up what we keep inside, it is sacred and scary, and the rest of us don’t know if we want to touch it or not, like reaching from a ladder into a nest of baby birds….But I invite you to anyway… For each of us is a fledgling that eventually, if fed, will fly.”
May we find the courage to reach for the sacred place with kindness and a gentle touch.
Nurture your precious baby birds. Let them grow strong and fly.
Find your Middle Ground is about stepping away from stressful days and anxious minds, and taking time to pause.
When we are mindful of the present moment and simply allow it to be, we open a door to our natural state of being – accepting, loving, peaceful, kind and content. Most of us are so distracted and moving so fast that we get caught up in the world of “doing” or worrying about what we should be doing next.
Too much doing and thinking disconnects us from our sense of “being”and who we really are.
I write about finding this place of connection, contentment and peace in the highs and lows of life. I call it our Middle Ground.
May this Danna Fauld’s poem fill you with strength and inspiration. “We come from stronger stuff than feelings” 💛
Bonneville Salt Flats
Remember This
Vast and changeless
the ground of being
is not rocked by
ripples on the pond.
The firmament from
which we spring, the
divinity at the heart
of things doesn’t wax
or wane with mind states,
or wither in the wind.
We come from stronger
stuff than feelings.
Essence does not fail
or fade, diminish or
trade reality for illusion.
We are wordless, wide,
and wise beyond time.
Within us is a flame
of truth that never dies.
Let that be the focal
point of life. Let that
be the light that guides
us from the shadows.
~ Danna Faulds
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Find your Middle Ground
Let the new unfold within
Consciousness rising
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” The way is not really a way.
It is a depth.
It is not a distance.
It is a deepening into the stillness, deepening in the unmoving.
It is not a walking journey.
Journeys are for the body and the ego-mind.
But listening takes you deeper into the bliss of the unknowable. “*
Let these words guide you towards that deep and secret place of bliss.
Namaste
*Mooji (2015-12-03). White Fire: Spiritual insights and teachings of advaita zen master Mooji (Kindle Locations 137-139). Mooji Media Publications. Kindle Edition.
“In many ways we’re taught to be in a constant state of friction with, to be in battle with what is. We’re taught that the way to find happiness or peace is to always be trying to change what is, whether its changing your inner experience or trying to change the world around you.
When we operate from this viewpoint, it puts us in a sense of future, where real freedom or real peace can be found in some time other than now. This leads to our deep rooted belief that to find peace and freedom, we need to change our inner or outer environment.
To tell ourselves that it shouldn’t be the way it is, is a type of insanity … which destabilizes us. It’s a kind of insanity to be constantly arguing with what is and thinking it should be different.”
Adyashanti from Falling into Grace
Yet we are told this message and act it out every day. We become more “insane” as we reinforce it with striving to achieve new goals, and wanting things to be different.
Why?..
Because we want to be happy, right?
But the more we strive in this way, the more destabilized we become.
When we stop to pause in our middle ground, we intuitively know that external accomplishments and acquisitions will never bring us what we truly seek. Happiness and peace already lie within us.
I know that as I read Adyashanti’s words about being insane, there is an inner struggle.
My conditioned thinking mind says how this surely can’t be true, and my intuitive heart embraces it with open arms and a knowing loving smile.
I trust it isn’t the grin of a lunatic …
