Ready: Let it In

Musing…

“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way.  So we must dig and delve unceasingly.” – Claude Monet

  

Charise’s Turn:

In each yoga class I lead we close with Shavasana, or relaxation, to come to a state of rest and awareness after completing asana practice (yoga poses).  This is when you integrate action on a subtler level and revel in the effect of yoga -- and hatha yoga literally means yoking of sun and moon, thereby bringing oneself into a greater wholeness. In Shavasana I focus on breathing as something to anchor and deepen the experience of rest but there is more than rest going on. All kinds of connections are happening – front to back body, centers to extremities, internal to external, expansion to softening, inhalation to exhalation. My job as leader is to foster these connections and they can get very interesting in that mode of awake rest.

Last week, after saying the typical “let go as you breathe out”, I added “and let in the effect of your inspiration”.  Inspiration is inhalation, but that’s not exactly what I meant. I meant inspiration – in the sense of letting go to allow inspiration to move in. For it’s often in the emptying of ourselves, or getting ourselves out of the way, or releasing certain thoughts or beliefs we hold, that we then find something creative can happen from a deeper impulse. Coincidentally last week I also wrote a poem while resting from a muscle spasm. Lines of the poem started writing themselves in my mind while I was lying down with no goal but to sleep, doze, breathe. The poetic impulse came through.

To be ready or to get ready may imply doing, action, busyness or goals – but there is also a readiness of creativity that happens when you let it in. Think of a law of attraction – you make space available to draw in your true voice or your true calling or your true idea or your true desire.

“Wild flowers grow where they will.” – Rachel Lambert Mellon

Get Fired Up:

Breathe in, breathe out.
Breathe in, let go as you breathe out.
Breathe in, let go as you breathe out and let in the effect of your inspiration.
Let in the effect of your inspiration.
Ready...let it in. 

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Ready: Clearing Space

Musing…

"Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."   ~ Eckhart Tolle 

Spring is the perfect time to make space for new growth. Clearing away the decaying remains of a previous season’s harvest moves out the stale, used up energy, and allows space for fresh energy to be received. If we’re stuck in what used to be, then we have no room for what could be, for what we want. In order to move forward, we have to let go of the past. This preparation clears us a space in which we are free to expand.

Kate’s Turn:   

It seems that we humans gravitate towards filling up whatever space we have, whatever seems to be empty, whether it is a closet, time, conversation, silence, etc.  However, our natural composition is mostly space: in each cell, the neutrons/protons/electrons are whirring around in the spacious cell membrane; in the cosmos, our planets and stars are minute compared to the space in which they exist. We are born to expand, and so, clearing and pruning what no longer is fresh and alive serves our readiness for new expansion and growth. 

Currently, I’m actively in this stage, as spring lends itself in doing so. This is happening, not only in my garden beds, but also in deleting and clearing my emailbox, my efiles, my studio stuff that I collect to be used in some future artsy project, even in my time usage. I want my time, which is now spread out over a number of things, to be freed up so I can focus my energy in a few target areas, and leave ample room for new opportunities that I might not even know about yet. This clearing even shows up when I’m in conversation; I’m increasing the pause before I respond, allowing space for more than I might anticipate between us. Also, I’m in a Harvard online class that is called “Unlocking the Immunity to Change”; it will help me root out mindsets that prohibit change, and open space for greater expansion of myself. The image that comes to mind is a pregnant mother, making ready a nursery space in which to embrace her child, anticipating the possibilities for the wonder of its growth and becoming. This is the image we can embody in our readiness for new life. It is with this readiness, along with faith in the new life to come, that I can clear and open the space, ready to receive.

“We must live in this world and be gardens for the dreams that want to take root in it.”    

 ~ Robert Moss, Dreaming True

Get Fired Up:

As you declutter, focus on one small area at a time:  a shelf, a drawer…one negative belief, a limitation that is choking your growth, an unwillingness, an inner resistance…take small steps to clear the space.

Do not fear the darkness, the emptiness….this is the birthplace of manifestation.  Image your newly opened space as a creative incubator…holding the space open to embrace what is waiting to emerge.

Place the palm of one hand on the forehead over the 3^rd eye.

                Affirm 3 times, "I am clear."

                Take a deep breath in and let it out with a sigh.

                Now move your hand and place it over your heart.

                Affirm 3 times, "I am here."

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