Happy New Year!

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

The answers, the having, the knowing, we want it all now! We want it so badly now we try to skip over the journey which is actually responsible for getting us there in the end. Where did we lose the ability to ruminate, to contemplate and to sit still and witness what is? When did life start unfolding so rapidly that we have more to do than time to do it? When did we begin to think that keeping our kids occupied every moment was good so they wouldn’t get into trouble? When did we begin to think that life’s experiences were to be controlled and kids should be kept from them? Doesn’t the experience teach us how to make different choices the next time? Didn’t we all have opportunities to make choices to get bruised, to pick ourselves up and be responsible?

We find ourselves in these hurries constantly. Our bellies and our shoulders are tense, we hold our breath denying ourselves life and we rush to add more which supports this state into our every day lives. It is time to find our way back home; back home to the Truth. We have been making all this up. Life is happening now inside and all around us. All we have to do is be willing to sit for moments a day to witness what is here now. Willing to dive inside and connect to that which is greater than ourselves in order to receive the guidance that is here for us. Willing to ask to lay down the struggle and then let ourselves do it.

We rush blindly into the doing and the having and rarely focus on the being. The Truth is that this journey is teaching us so well even right now even with all the pain and discomfort we are experiencing in this global transformation. It is here for a reason. We created it all, the rushing, the outward focus, the egregious desire for more of everything. And now we are having an opportunity to find something else that will fulfill us because the outward focus never truly provided the happiness its lure promised. The pain and discomfort offer us the opportunity to go inside and find the answers. It is perfect. The pain gets our attention more than the joy and we begin to question; what happened? How did I get here? Then slowly but surely and sometimes swiftly the answers come; beacons in the night, whispers in the wind. Answers as to what we have been doing and how we came so far off path.

Breathe, breathe deeply and fully and keep repeating the Truth “I am safe and I am loved” Keep repeating it until your body believes it and health is restored, until your whole being calms down remembering again who you are and where you came from. Breathe until you become the breath itself; Life, Love and Joy!

This is your birthright! Come breathe and see through the illusions that threaten to overcome us! Come breathe until you remember again!

Breath classes are held every Monday and Friday evenings at 6:30 to 8:30

“Nothing in the world is usual today. This is the first morning” Izumi Shikibu

Sending love and light,

Karen

Ps there will not be classes from 1/26 to 1/30, they will resume on 2/2! I have beginning Meditation classes on Tuesdays at 1:15 to 2:15 and Thursdays from 1-2 pm. If you are interested in beginning meditation please let me know!