Balance

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Created on Thursday, 14 August 2014 13:28

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I have been going through some ups and downs within my life lately. I kept trying to aim to be centred in these emotions, thinking that the journey in these polarities was not healthy. I was then recently reminded an Osho teaching, where he discusses the art of living in balance is not to reject these ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ emotions but to feel them wholly, and only then we can reach the balance in between. But to know and accept that this is only temporary too, as a passing phase.

Balance is not a noun it is verb-it is balancing. The tight rope walker continuously moves from the right to the left, yes there is a moment when he is in the middle or too much to one side there is fear of falling. It is a dynamic process. You cannot be in the middle. Do not avoid extremes and do not choose only one extreme. The secret of balance is to remain available to both polarities. Both utterly happy and utterly sad have their own beauties. Both states are bound to be there! Both are inevitable and unavoidable. Life brings great pain and pleasure, by living one you live the other.  You cannot avoid the negative and have only the positive. Osho says this a fallacy” they are two aspects of the two energies.’ In the same way, our personal asana practice should not be balanced but should balance us, and our asana classes should balance our students. Effort and rest. Elimination and assimilation. Yang and yin. Day and night. Extreme action leads to death and so does extreme inaction. Finding balance leads to health, happiness and a discovering of who we really are!

Simple Reminders:

·       Do not fight with the emotion, welcome it ;

·       See deep into the emotion with love, care. Be a real host to the emotion whatever it is and you will be surprised beyond comprehension;

·       Discomfort is a signal to pay attention;

·       Balance comes out of the experience of all elements of life;

·       Learning to live with our negative parts of ourselves we can become whole;

·       Balance is something that comes with the acceptance of all of these dimensions of life.

I accept all that life offers me, knowing that nothing is static. Aadil Palkhivala  shares: “It is a cosmic principle that we either live in imbalance or act to create balance. Though we may be comfortable in imbalance (which we often perceive as balance), we cannot grow in such a state. It is through shining light on that which we are not—our opposite—that we illuminate the road to progress."

Blessings,

May see you in the class this Saturday morning!

Seriya x