Day 19~ Confronting An Injury

onthemat • January 20, 2017

I have a real talent for ignoring issues I would prefer not to deal with. This talent can take many forms – from bills to laundry to personal issues or to physical ailments. Today I rushed to an evening class after a very long day and was very happy to settle into one of my […]

I have a real talent for ignoring issues I would prefer not to deal with. This talent can take many forms – from bills to laundry to personal issues or to physical ailments. Today I rushed to an evening class after a very long day and was very happy to settle into one of my favorite classes. Towards the end, we were instructed to do a series of poses using the wall which required some hip flexibility. Well…problem is I have really no flexibility on my left side. Some kind of undefined injury that I have yet to diagnose has kind of frozen that hip in place. While I am fine not being the person in the center of the room doing the headstand, and I am more than happy to grab blocks or make adjustments to make poses work, my inability to do this pose on one side really felt quite demoralizing. It has never been more apparent that ignoring the injury and hoping it would magically go away seems not to be working. Hmmm…time to take care of myself and try to see if I identify the source of the problem perhaps?

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Heart~ Day #7 (Week #4)

By Linda Malcomb • May 3, 2020
“There is a light in the core of our being that calls us home—one that can only be seen with closed eyes; We can feel it as a radiance in the center of our chest. This light of loving awareness is always here, regardless of our conditioning. It does not matter how many dark paths we have traveled or how many wounds we have inflicted or sustained as we have unknowingly stumbled toward this inner radiance. It does not matter how long we have sleepwalked, seduced by our desires and fears. This call persists until it is answered, until we surrender to who we really are. When we do, we feel ourselves at home wherever we are. A hidden beauty reveals itself in our ordinary life. As the true nature of our Deep Hear is unveiled, we feel increasingly grateful for no reason—grateful to simply be.” —John J. Prendergast, PHD, The Deep Heart

SUN!~ Day #6 (Week #4)

By Linda Malcomb • May 2, 2020
Seems like it’s been rainy, windy, dreary for eons. Which may have helped us shelter inside a bit more. I remember reading years and years ago in a Seth book that weather can be influenced, and even created by mass human emotion. Why not? We are far more powerful than we currently acknowledge, and science is beginning to validate many phenomena that had seemed inconceivable before. Those seemingly endless days of “bad” weather seemed congruent with the emotional tone of covid her in New England. And now SUN! Glorious, warming, invigorating, hope-filled Sun! Today I will be outside basking and gardening and thanking. And I’m sure the whole neighborhood, and most of New England will go outside, stand with our faces to the sun and breathe a huge healing breath of joy. And maybe the collective energy of that will resonate out across the word as a promise of brighter days to come.
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