{"id":413,"date":"2017-01-15T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/?p=413"},"modified":"2017-01-15T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:23:16","slug":"life-in-the-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eatbreathedoyoga.com\/?p=413","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Pause\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Card from my son Parker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ve been reflecting these days on how when we stop to enjoy how we are getting to where we are going, life happens. In other words when we stop rushing around to one thing or another and take a pause we can experience life in a whole new way. I come from a place of being busy. Then when I trained myself to look at my life as FULL, I felt a little better. I mean it sounded better, it sounded pretty productive, however I think it was the same. I looked at my life in terms of how much I could get done. I measured my self worth from that with not much time to pause.<\/p>\n

These days in India are full of self-reflecting. I have goals. I want to finish that epic novel, study, learn and make progress in what I do. I keep myself as a student of yoga here. In the meantime, I think that the real joy is in the process and in the learning, in the connections and in the experience. In terms of measuring progress, well that\u2019s sort of objective, meaning it is not always this linear line that goes up. There is progress in every way we may be moving as wisdom and learning is there.<\/p>\n

This week was full of surprises, synchronicity and special moments. They weren\u2019t planned events so to say and they fed me in so many ways bringing joy and a sense of feeling connected. They happened in between my breaths as I took a minute to pause. It was from meeting a new group at a caf\u00e9 for breakfast, joining a group on a walk around the lake, lively discussions for a late dinner, seeing old friends in new places, rooftop gatherings, saying yes to an adventure, to following the cue and seeing where you end up, it has all been wonderful and relaxed.<\/p>\n

I think about the practice of asana and what Sharath says about patience in the method. It\u2019s about patience in the method and enjoying the journey, our own personal journeys with the practice, and our own personal journeys in this life. I notice and am more aware of the silence in between the breaths and know that therein lies this pause where a lot of what we are yearning for lies. It\u2019s quiet and reflective and peaceful. It\u2019s not scary there; it\u2019s living and experiencing who we are in the pause.<\/p>\n

Signed,<\/p>\n

Grateful One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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