DAILY The happenstance of having a card fall out of a drawer saved you from receiving a rant today, and more importantly …saved me from remaining stuck in it. I’m always amazed by how the Universe offers opportunity to move on. Time and again, it subtly, or not so subtly, signals, “Turn left here, two inches only.” We pass on by for the most part, but sometimes we get lucky, and I think that with Practice we become luckier.
“What is the card that fell from the drawer, that saved us both,” you ask?
“Barn’s burned down, now I can see the moon,” is beautifully scripted across the front. Suddenly the depressive choke of late February changed. My grumpiness with heating bills run amuck, dirty snow, un-kept New Year’s promises, and no accomplishment on the horizon took the necessary two inch shift to the left. In that instant, an ‘OhmyGod’ moment manifested. “These ‘terrible days’ are my last wonderful days to turn within, to become quiet before green out-rushing spring energy pushes me elsewhere. In seeing ‘the moon’ my chich melted.
How do these shifts happen? I don’t know. If I did I would not spend so much time confused, out of sorts, or raging at teapot-tempests. I realize I should be able to conjure small miracles, if one can classify any miracle as small, I’m a Yogini after all. Does that not imply I can create my own contentment, be at peace, in tune with whatever Ma Nature is handing out? Indeed.
Truth be written, re-booting the passionate/peaceful/inspired life is no easy thing. I put a lot of junk in the way of attaining it, my attitude being the largest hurdle. Clearly what/how we think is the life we have. If you attach emotion to those thoughts then the Universe gives you the nod, and swoops under to support your thought process. Being a pissy-mal-content wins support too. Unfortunately it gives me exactly what I’m thinking, “February’s a dumb month, oh quelle drag, ohhhhwoe&whine.”
Now that my barn’s gone and the baggage (read all my livestock, support, and safety,) has gone up in smoke, I can choose to stand and see the moon rising over the horizon, for perhaps the first time. I can also drop to my knees, and weep in the dirt at my loss. Being human, first I’ll do one, then with luck, read Practice, I might be able to do the other.
We are so lucky in that choice is always being dropped in front of us, hoping, waiting….”just two inches to the right, or left, shifts hellish perceptions toward heaven.
Asana: Dwi-Pada-Shirshasana/Balancing Tortoiose Pose. Seated on your Sitts bones, legs extended in front. Hold an ankle, bringing one leg up around your shoulder, bend the trunk a little, placing the foot behind your head, (hold head up strongly.) Do the other leg, then cross the ankles at the back of the head if possible…. As though any of this were possible.When you see photos of the Pose, you chuckle, thinking, Ha ha, never! But what if you asked, “I wonder if I could get one leg behind my head in a year? That is a lovely Pose called, Eka Pada Sirsasana. If you let curiosity take you into the ‘impossible’just perhaps…? Once instigated, our impossible dreams take us many places never imagined. Let some high flying, ridiculously difficult pose be your coming journey, your two inch shift to the left…or right.
Health Notes: Any form of this pose strengthens the abdominals, back, and neck and clearly lengthens hamstrings and thighs. Digestion is helped.
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