Creating Calm

How has you summer been treating you so far?  What have you been up to?  Have you been taking time to nurture your wellbeing?  Or has chronic stress been holding back from experiencing true joy?

So many of us have been affected by stress,  to the point that we experience it as pain in the chest,  a shortness of breath or brain fog.  Yoga has taught me that there are many ways to influence our stress response so that we can experience life in a more relaxed and meaningful way.  It is challenging to be in a place of calm and compassion when we are stuck in a state of stress and anxiety.  I promise you though,  if you take the time to listen to your body,  it will not lead you astray.  Our bodies are our greatest teachers once we set an intention to learn how to attentively listen.

Yoga can and will break down physical tension so that emotional and energetic stress can move through the body.  Many people have their own perception about what yoga is and can do,  but I have discovered that it can deliver so much more than what we believe.  I have been practicing for 19 years now and I am still continually learning about how I can heal myself through yoga.  I have found myself suffering with anxiety a few times in the past and I was simply not satisfied with what doctors offered in terms of support and healing.  I found a way to move through my traumas and transform my life into greater levels of enjoyment with the support of my yoga practice.

Yoga is a gift from India and has taught me how to calm my body-mind through movement,  breath control,  meditation and a commitment to becoming more aware of my thoughts.  I truly believe that everything is created in the mind and it's so super important to take responsibility for that department.  We can influence the mind through the breath as well as movement of the body.  The challenge is in making time to heal the mind before it is too late.

Yoga can influence your spiritual health to a place of higher understanding and enhance your ability to look at your thoughts,  words and actions with unconditional love.  So how do you get to this place of deeper knowing? We need to begin by learning and practicing how to breathe deeper with awareness,  stretch and move more mindfully,  as well as quiet the mind long enough to tap into our relaxation state.  That's where the magic happens and before long we can maintain this state of calm throughout the days.  In this state,  we will perceive situations properly,  our body reflects this inner peace and we naturally attract others in similar states of wellness.  At this stage we can practice lifestyle principles with ease,  complete tasks at hand with confidence and develop higher states of awareness and spirituality.  Nobody can tell you how to be spiritual,  it has to be experienced from within.  We can look to others for guidance,  read about it or imagine it.  However,  it's more of an experience rather than a word or a paragraph or a picture.  It is a knowingness,  not an explanation.  We can talk about it,  but to truly live a spiritual life is different for everyone.  It's more like a discovery within or a state of being.

I believe that as long as we live in chronic stress,  it doesn't matter what type of magical pill you swallow,  the body will not return to it's natural state of health until we learn to calm the stress in our lives.  And yoga truly can help any-body with this process.  We all have stress in our lives,  it's how we deal with stress that is important.  Give yourself permission to look into your life and recognize where stress is showing up for you.  Problems are only problems and can be seen differently when we learn to take control of our reactions and stories that we create about life's situations.  We truly do possess the ability in every moment to transform our perception and move into higher states of awareness,  acceptance and peace.



What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.  - Buddha

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  1. Thanks for these wise words Pam, inspiring me to not give up the practice- it’s too easy to get “busy” and not take that necessary time on myself!

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