Beautiful article! Articulates great reasons to do yoga and meditation practice. And, of course, weve got lots to share with you in support of this at Princeton Center for Yoga and Health! Besides our ongoing classes - check out the Insight Dialogue retreat day with Gary Steinberg on Feb 23. Or our free intro to our new upcoming Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program with me and Jeffrey Rutstein on Feb 19. Our new Mindful Yoga classes...or any class - all doorways to the same field of awareness... So, this is a long post, but wanted to share an excerpt of this article and hope you will take the time to take it in (sometimes better to read something uplifting vs dwelling on our own ruminating negative thoughts: The physical part of the yoga practice was designed to prepare the body and the mind for seated meditation. When we sit and meditate, we have this enormous and beautiful opportunity to know ourselves. Feelings come up and we witness them. We dont try to fix them or change them, we just watch them arise and peak, and subside. No feeling is forever. And feelings are not facts. You dont have to believe everything you think, as the saying goes. We just sit and take a compassionate look at the world within us. At the quality of the relationship were having with ourselves, with others, with our own environment. We realize we are not our thoughts, which is huge, because so much of our suffering stems from the way were thinking about things. And we can take that practice into our lives. When someone says something that hurts, we can pause and breathe and notice where were feeling that pain. We can observe our jaw clenching, or our shoulders tightening. And after awhile, we can even communicate while were doing that. That really hurt. I dont know if Im misunderstanding you, but this is how Im feeling right now. Heres the other thing. When were thinking, we arent feeling; were separating ourselves from the experience we could be having. And those experiences include the feelings of love, joy, peace and contentment. Who doesnt want to make space for that stuff? If you want to, you can get started and sit with me for a few minutes right now. Sending you love. Thanks, Priti for sharing this one! mindbodygreen/0-12357/how-to-deal-when-people-are-driving-you-nuts.html
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:25:31 +0000