Heart Centered Yogis,
WHAT IS LOVE? Pause
and think about it. What exactly is
love?
We know it when it happens.
We know it when we feel it. We
know it when we are “in” it. But what is it?
Often it seems that love is something outside of us. Something that is caused by another. Out of our control. We fall in love. And it is magnified when the other falls in love
back! But the love is not outside. It is who we are, but we begin to associate
it with what on the outside got the engine burning. We love him.
We love her. We love
nature. We love ____ fill in the blank.
Love is an energy…. and a mighty powerful one at that. It is upward lifting, expanding, spacious and
exhilarating. And boy does it feel good!! So if
we could have that engine revving all of the time, wouldn’t we all choose that?
We can. But it is a shift in thinking. Recognizing that the one we fall in love with
is simply the lighter that lit us up. That the love itself is the energy we are
sending to them, and not the other way around.
We create it, we feel it, we
choose where to send it. And we have the ability when we open the heart
to start sending it to everyone and everything.
And like anything, the more attention and practice we put here, the
stronger and more powerful it gets. This is what it is to live life from the heart.
Everything that we search for is right inside of us. Sometimes we just need a guide.
If we bottled the heart energy it would take the place in
our medicine chest of blood pressure medication, anti-depressants, inhalers,
and cholesterol drugs. When the heart is
in full swing, our entire circulation and breath flow with strength and
ease. Life is beautiful.
And I can’t go without a big thank you to Ms Amaryllis that
joined us in classes this week! She is
truly a symbol of a open heart. Once she
blooms she stays wide open – not closing for the darkness of night, unwanted
visiting bugs, or even the accidental
bump with the vacuum cleaner. She is
willing to be vulnerable in order to send out her beauty to all of us. It was a joy having her.
Vishuddha chakra is our place of free will. It is here that we make our choices. It is where we find ultimate freedom, but
when blocked, it can instead feel like a
prison. The lump in the throat. Swallowing our words. The silent child.
There are two sides to the throat chakra – the ability to
listen inwardly to the heart, and then the ability to express outwardly what we
hear. What we know to be our
truths. We will first focus on the
listening.
One of the best ways to work with this it to find time every
day for silence. No talking, no tv, no
reading, no computer, no phone, no ipod (I could go on and on but I think you
get the idea). For those who meditate,
this is some daily built in
silence. Or it could be while you cook,
while you drive to work, or taking 10 minutes when you arrive home each evening
to sit outside. Just listening. It is in our own silence, that we hear
all. And if you do this for longer and longer,
over time a lot of the distractions that we were once so addicted to begin to
sound like nails on a chalkboard. Silence
becomes your music.
So far on this journey we have planted the seed of what we
want to have manifest in our lives, watered it with our desire, built the
strength in the belly where we created the clear vision of what it is and began
taking baby steps toward it. In the
heart we then surrendered to the Universe with complete faith that it will manifest. And so now the Universe will give you plenty
of signs along your path. Plenty!!! But you have to hear them. When we are living on auto pilot, walking
around with our narrow focus, we could trip right over them and not
notice. But when we keep that heart open
through the good, bad and the ugly, get quiet and expect to be guided….we start to notice the pointers. So listen for them. And when you get one – “choose” to go that
way.
On Friday night it occurred to me that I am beginning to “do
as I am told”. I know that most people
would read that and feel sorry for me.
But it is an amazing feeling. And
I know, without any doubt, that the Universe would never steer me wrong or harm
me in any way. It would be utterly inconceivable. And
in “doing as I am told” I feel stronger and more powerful than I have ever
felt.
Today is mother’s day.
So sending love to all of you mother yoginis out there! I always choose to spend this day in my
garden with the mother energy of the earth.
Today I made tinctures of stinging
nettles and catnip. So Happy Mother’s
Day to her too!
Listening for guidance,
SARAH
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