I just arrived home on Friday and hadn’t been to yoga in over a week. Even though I worked out at the gym while away, it just didn’t attend to the “screws loose in my head” like yoga does. I usually don’t go on the weekend because the classes are at 8 am and it’s too hard to make it there in time. Today though, I caught a break with the time change. I was up at 5 instead of 6 so there was no excuse not to be in that yoga studio at 8.
On my drive there I felt a certain sense of freedom and centeredness settle over me. Instead of operating from a place where things trouble me, I was operating from within the center of myself and my troubles sat on a shelf. I had a really good class. It was my favorite teacher, the class was a rhythmic meditation, the room was perfect and it was fun seeing all my yoga buddies again. Hooray for the time change.
On the drive home I decided today was a day to listen to my own heart. The word detach kept crossing my mind. Upon arriving home, I felt both wonderful and spent at the same time. A week’s worth of pent up tension and tight muscles from the gym were suddenly released. I settled down to read the paper and my stars today said:
“Don’t key into someone’s issue so much that you cannot see clearly. You want to distance yourself, perhaps not literally but possibly mentally. You need to relax. Choose a movie or go for a drive. Let your mind wander. Tonight: Don’t even think about tomorrow.”
Today that’s exactly what I did. I paid attention to my stars, chose two football games and a nap, and had a lovely day apart from the world.
Sometimes we squint. Through our slits we try to think and solve and analyze until we become fatigued. Sometimes the best thing is to not squint, but to widen our focus, and to see with what is called “the heart’s eye”. Instead of squinting like a tiger and showing our claws, the thing that helps us most is the effort to enlarge and stay open. ~ Nepo
Today I felt that need to relax…and see with “the hearts eye”.
And so, as another day goes by, trubs most certainly belonged on shelf, I have listened, and… I have written.
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