I have to see clearly now. — Yoga Path Talks

Once I was pregnant with my first youngster, I horrified my husband by creating a need to look at “Child 911” kind reveals.  Throughout Covid, I switched my fiction studying to medical journal studying.  When occasions grow to be unsure, my coping technique of alternative appears to be: stand in a single spot and observe, observe, observe.  

These are unsure occasions once more.  Life proper now feels as anxious and chronic as a beeping low battery fireplace alarm in the course of the night time! I discover myself “doom-scrolling” after which questioning if that is wholesome. However I believe for me, taking an data blackout throughout this unsure time could be akin to taking the battery out of the fireplace alarm. I have to see. 

Within the yoga world, the thought of seeing clearly and truthfully is known as Satya.  It’s the apply of standing within the here-and-now and observing.  You observe what is going on on this actuality as truthfully as you may.  You then observe your reactions.  What have your thought patterns been since this new actuality started? What habits patterns have you ever been doing? The place are you feeling this in your physique?   

Once I was within the uncertainty of my first being pregnant, I did dream concerning the future.  However I discovered that dreaming concerning the vivid and rosy future made the uncomfortable actuality of being pregnant worse. Doing small issues in my current actuality – like adorning the nursery and happening lengthy walks – appeared a greater coping technique for me.  

So in these present unsure occasions, how can I add some pleasure to my actuality as an alternative of making an attempt to want it away?  Is there a artistic endeavor that I can start and full proper right here?  Is there a bodily objective that I can start and truly accomplish on this here-and-now with this physique and this period of time? 

It’s not ceaselessly, however that is the way in which it’s proper now.

Till subsequent time,

Laura