Conscious Creating.....I can

Yogis,

Thank you fall colors! Thank you computer, pillow, yoga mat and music. Thank you breeze. Oh my gosh, and thank you dark chocolate! Thank you, thank you, thank you……  Grateful every day. 

Have you been planting your vision? One great way to do this is to take the heart opening position from last week – arms spread wide over head with the heart tilted up – and once you awaken gratitude, paint your vision on the blank infinite space in front you. See it. Powerful.

Then do. Let the map create itself while you head toward. Knowing where you are going.

When out of nowhere, you hit your first obstacle…………………

See, I knew I couldn’t do that. It was only a matter of time. What was I thinking. That isn’t possible, and I don’t deserve it. I am not smart enough, wealthy enough, cool enough, thin enough, healthy enough.  Life doesn’t work like that. It isn’t fair. And so on.

We have reached the point in this process where it is easy to go back to the old comfortable way. To doubt. This happened to me yesterday. I was knocked over by a curve ball on one of the visions I have been working toward over these past three years. Wham! 

I watched as my emotions ramped up. Anger, frustration, sorrow all standing in line to take their turn. My mind deciding it was high time to take back the reins replayed the situation over and over and over ad nauseum. My forward movement appeared to have come to a stop. Or more like being pushed three steps back.

Remember that part about unwavering faith?  All day yesterday it was being tested. Until last night.  Thank God for my “Friday Night time for me”.  As I lit the candles, ran the bath water and moved to the music I allowed it all to flow through. A good sob released not only the day but all the sorrow that had built up over this past week from being human in today’s world. 

I quietly thanked the mind for all of its input but let it know that ‘I’ was now back at the helm. Soaking in the hot tub I let go and once again planted my vision. I can. I will. Today I began to lean in once again. 

An obstacle is only that.  And yes there will be some. They are in the end our teachers as they cause us to pause and listen. They may point us to make a turn in our path, ask us to stop struggling so hard or hold us long enough to learn something we will need as we continue along. Again, our role is to see what we want and trust our partner, the Universe, to create the course. With gratitude. Even during the obstacles.

Thank you warm cup of tea, chipmunks and an afternoon with my grandson!

I can….and I will,
SARAH