Finding stillness. That’s my focus right now. Walk slower. Move slower. Give space to recognize feelings. Space to recognize that we are not our feelings. Space to think. Space to understand the difference between a snake and a rope. Space to keep my mind in the present. Not dwelling on past or worrying about future. Remembering that my thoughts color what everything looks like. When I remember I have agency, I can start to realize that the “good” or “bad” sensations are labels that I can change. To realize that if they are changeable they aren’t real...
Everything is still happening and always will. Read the Bhagavad Gita. We learn that even abstaining from everything - our bodies are still working. Everything is happening and always will. So how to deal? How to be a human in the world? In society? How to people?
This is the time to focus on practicing the 8 limbs of yoga. This is the time when even a little knowledge can make a massive difference. Even before asana practice comes the yamas and niyamas. This is a time to bring these into focus.
Non-hoarding, aparigraha... Think about minimalism. Think about FIRE. Think about what really is important in life.
Remember to take care of each other. What about the children who will be home for three weeks without free school lunches? How can we help them?
Remember to take care of ourselves. Remember to keep up our asana practice or maybe it is an opportunity to begin. Maybe it helps us to process thoughts, emotions, energy. Maybe it helps reduce stress and keeps us healthy and infuses us with the vitality to be able to help others and the world more. That would be nice.
Oh and also from the yoga sutras:
maitri karuna muditopeksanam sukha duhkha punyapunya visayanam bhavanatas citta prasadanam
“By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness.”
Everything is still happening and always will. Read the Bhagavad Gita. We learn that even abstaining from everything - our bodies are still working. Everything is happening and always will. So how to deal? How to be a human in the world? In society? How to people?
This is the time to focus on practicing the 8 limbs of yoga. This is the time when even a little knowledge can make a massive difference. Even before asana practice comes the yamas and niyamas. This is a time to bring these into focus.
Non-hoarding, aparigraha... Think about minimalism. Think about FIRE. Think about what really is important in life.
Remember to take care of each other. What about the children who will be home for three weeks without free school lunches? How can we help them?
Remember to take care of ourselves. Remember to keep up our asana practice or maybe it is an opportunity to begin. Maybe it helps us to process thoughts, emotions, energy. Maybe it helps reduce stress and keeps us healthy and infuses us with the vitality to be able to help others and the world more. That would be nice.
Oh and also from the yoga sutras:
maitri karuna muditopeksanam sukha duhkha punyapunya visayanam bhavanatas citta prasadanam
“By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness.”
