Being Willing to Flip the Script

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Hello Sadhakas!

Ever wonder how some people are able to "handle stress" so much better than others or how they can stay calm under pressure? I bet we could all do with a little "better under pressure" these days. It's been a long time of a lot of pressure and even the best of us are starting to crack. So what do we do? We have two choices:

One, we feed the side of us that says "this is too much, I can't handle any more of this, I can't possibly cancel anything else anymore etc etc"

Orrrrrrrr

We learn how to say to the senses and all of its wants and needs and fidgets and twitches- "Not now". "I am sorry my love but not now."

In the learning to do that we realize that the senses are constantly swinging us about demanding this and that so that we can feel "ok" again. We spend so much time and energy trying not to feel what we are feeling, what if instead we felt it and we didn't respond to it as if it were the end of the world. What if we could say to the feelings "I love you, I hear you, we will be ok, and not need to rush to fix it or make it go away. What if we didn't need to eat it, drink it, buy it, worry it, fight it, plan it, organize it away? What if by sitting in that discomfort we found the other side and what if on that other side we realized, truly realized that the truth of our being is that we are all inherently perfect and ok in every moment.

Well this our third week of the December Flow and we are getting to explore just that. It's our third week playing with the same flow and ON THE MAT you are likely going to experience one of two things- You might feel super excited to finally know the whole flow, you get to drop into really observing how you are doing what you are doing and you might totally love that (most yogis do). But you might also notice something else- a discomfort that shows up in a feeling of irritation or boredom or anger at me for keeping it the same- that is the ego desperately trying to keep you from seeing something important. See that's the thing about sticking it out. Very very often it is the sticking it out that leads to mastery, to lessons being learned and truths revealed. We don't get that if all we do is run.

You will notice me in the flow also reminding you to choose stillness rather than letting yourself fidget or twitch- even this little thing can teach us BIG things about our ability to be present to discomfort.

OFF THE MAT, many of us are moving back into a feeling of hibernation (or a literal one if there is a stay at home order in your area)and in a very similar way we are being asked to stay in one place, in one thing and our reaction to that is allowed to be one of sadness and disappointment. But it is also not an accident and it is happening for us and not to us. So we can deep dive into the work of learning the lessons we still can learn and take this last leg of the journey to solidify all we want to take with us into the world once this is over

or

We can live in the low vibration of fighting things we cannot change.

I for my part choose to fight for the light.

I hope you come with me.

I will see you ON AND OFF THE MAT!

With great respect and love,

Nicole