Energy - Birthright
Dec. 18th, 2007 05:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosDue to some upheaval in my life recently, I hadn't been very consistent in my morning practice, but the past two days I've been back in the swing of things.
This morning, to end the yoga sequence, I went from Mountain pose (standing straight, arms at sides) to a "sun breath" of arms raised in a Y over my head. I started asking for Light to come down -- and then stopped myself. I don't have to "ask." Light is there; calling it in is a birthright we all have.
Then I did The Rising Light Below with the same mindset. Instead of concentrating on pulling the energy up and shaping it into the different elemental modes, I was mindful of the free-flowingness of the light, and the way in which all four elements were already part of me. It made a big difference in my experience of the exercise.
It's there for all of us: light, darkness, earth, air, fire, water, spirit. . . all of it. It's just a matter of accepting it, being open to it, believing in it.
(Or maybe it's not that simple? But that's how it feels this morning.)
This morning, to end the yoga sequence, I went from Mountain pose (standing straight, arms at sides) to a "sun breath" of arms raised in a Y over my head. I started asking for Light to come down -- and then stopped myself. I don't have to "ask." Light is there; calling it in is a birthright we all have.
Then I did The Rising Light Below with the same mindset. Instead of concentrating on pulling the energy up and shaping it into the different elemental modes, I was mindful of the free-flowingness of the light, and the way in which all four elements were already part of me. It made a big difference in my experience of the exercise.
It's there for all of us: light, darkness, earth, air, fire, water, spirit. . . all of it. It's just a matter of accepting it, being open to it, believing in it.
(Or maybe it's not that simple? But that's how it feels this morning.)
