It never ceases to amaze me how resistance can effect our lives and accepting change can bring about peace. The simplest examples can help us learn big lessons. How many times in our lives have we resisted change only to finally, reluctantly, change and then wish we had done it years before? This is not to say that there are not things worth holding on to, but the ability to flow can make it all so much more peaceful. Resistance or “holding” does not flow with the law of nature. In fact energy or prana is always moving. We are always changing on a cellular level, we are always breathing, moving and thinking. So when we get stuck or hold on to ideas and things and thing that are no longer serving us it creates a block in the flow.
So how do we learn to be more accepting of change? How do we discern what we want to keep around? Well, first accepting that nothing is truly ours. Then we can learn to study our own behaviors. Observing our tendencies and our habits is the key. We start this process with the lessons our own movement can teach us. How long have we been stuck with those tight hamstrings? The older we get the more stuck we become. It is imperative that we keep moving and stay flexible. Every day on the yoga mat we breathe into the change and move the body to stay open and flexible.
This then translates to our minds. What thoughts are we hanging on to? Are these thoughts serving us? What about our feelings? Are they really productive for us or are they habitual? Once we notice, we can see the possibilities of change or seeing things in a new way. Once that happens the laws of nature can help us to become unstuck. And then it all comes back to the breath. We breathe in the fresh new thoughts and abilities and exhale the old. A sense of peace sets in that we are in the flow.
So, if you have been stuck, in a rut, or resistant to change, take some time to breathe. Move the body in new ways everyday. Be gentle and learn to go with the flow. And of course, get into a yoga class.
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