Not the wild beating heart kind of magic that has one breathless and excited. No, this is more freeing. By stopping the pretense and sinking into the feeling, it lost it's hold over me.
Having a plan and making a commitment to "the practice" of my work began as only a thought...one of many that compete for my attention every moment. But this thought that I held and paid attention to, will free me for other things.
James Allen wrote -
"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn: the bird sleeps in the egg: and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities..."
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| a fairy from my garden |
The dream is this: I will get better as I go. My voice will become more clear.
In the practice of yoga we breath into a pose, finding the edge of our comfort zone. It is in this place where change takes place. It is, at first, imperceptible but one day suddenly we discover that a pose becomes easy. The discomfort is gone. This is a good feeling to lean into. But in yoga as in life, it only means we find ourselves at a new edge with different and unfamiliar terrain. So we breath into it choosing to stay where we are for a time or making the choice to grow. Some of us need a nudge, some of us must be shoved, all of us will change.
We can grow strong or weak. We can grow energized or weary. We can grow open or remain closed. Spirit wants us to choose the loving response to have faith that all is well even if it doesn't seem so at the time...and trust that this is true.
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