Along the way, with each day and sometimes even each second I learn something new. As I welcome the new year and reflect over the past years, there are a few “solids” that have unraveled in my life so far, and I want to share with you the culmination of that reflection. I feel blessed to have been bestowed these gifts upon my ever questioning and wondering “why?” nature.
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I analyze. I am continually finding myself analyzing situations and then strategizing how to best respond. At least this is what I have called it for most of my life. This obsessive analyzing has served me in many positive ways:
However, if I do not pay attention that same analyzing quality also can destroy my happiness by creating confusion and clouding clarity.
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Welcome to 2018!
I have been off in hibernation over the holidays – it is what I do every year. I visit my family at the beginning of December, my hubby heads off to his family’s house, and I stay at the casa with Travis (the cat) and hibernate.
It is one of my favorite things to do each year. There is a space that opens inside of me when I am left to my own devices, when I can make my own schedule, and when there is no one, but Travis of course, to listen to me regurgitate my thoughts audibly.
For the past 20 or so years, I have practiced my end of the year ritual. It is not even about the new year itself but rather the energy that permeates everything and everyone towards the end of the year that resonates with me. Everyone seems to be in the same mindset; there is more optimism everywhere I look, and I ride the tide and wrap myself in the energy that feels like wrapping up and beginning anew.
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I have an overactive right side, physically, which has contributed to the thoracic outlet syndrome the medical profession diagnosed years ago. Everything from my right eye to my right toes works harder than the left side of my body (except the gluteus minimus). If you look closely at my physical structure, in person, you can see even my right cervical spine is pushing to the left. Take a look at the picture next to this post, and you can see my right side pushing towards my left.
Now, some of this stands to reason since I am right handed. So, it is safe to assume I would dominate with my right side somewhat. However, the amount of structural and muscular movement is beyond regular right-hand dominance.
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Yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, regardless of all the slick guarantees, do not make unwanted things go away. These practices do not hold promises of unending bliss. Instead, they create a space to see yourself as you are and open your heart to yourself with acceptance and kindness. They expose your habits and present them before you and you can either buy-in or let go. It is through these practices you realize whatever occurs at this moment is neither the beginning nor the end. Thoughts, emotions, and feelings come and go, and all that is ever here is the basic nowness that is unfolding in front of you.
Oops, now that has gone but here is another, and another, and another and another…
This post was written by my dear friend, Carol Orsborn
I think of myself as a seeker and for years I experienced myself as a human being utilizing spiritual practice to alleviate the drama of life. But one of the great gifts of age is that perceptions—even cherished ones– can seemingly change in a flash, like the final drop of water finally overflowing a dam. All the life experience, all the trial and error, all the observation and contemplation finally amounts to something. And so it is that my experience of not only myself but the world shifted dramatically somewhere along the way and I suddenly have a new theory of everything.
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