Momentum Yoga: The Blog

Sometimes, life gets compressed.  Life moves along at it’s “normal” pace, whatever can be defined as normal, and then BAM! drama from everywhere converges.  Maybe this compression should be considered “normal”, and the periods of calm inbetween “expansion”, because you can bet on the whirlwinds of life gathering to a storm every now and again.

As yoga encourages us to study ourselves, these times provide excellent opportunity to examine our role in bringing about the drama.  Do we need the whirlwind as big as it is?  Do we need the compression as tight as it is?  To what can we say “no, you know what; this really *can* wait.  the consequences are ok to deal with”?  And to what do we say “this really does need attention, right now, regardless of these other things that are going on”?

This has come up in my life, as the culmination of the details of a layoff, my puppy’s surgery, and the decision on a major teacher training.   Never mind the complete mess I’ve left behind in the kitchen for my husband, never mind the grocery shopping undone.  Nor all the tasks I have at work and in my business after work.  It makes for quite a whirlwind.

But when I ask myself, in the moment, what is really important?  What can’t wait?  The answers become rather clear.  That doesn’t mean that there isn’t still a messy whirlwind of life compression to deal with.  But you only have the crucial, vital stuff left.  And that becomes easier.  Not easy.  Never easy.  Just easier.