Welcome
Please allow your stories to be left at the door with your shoes.
You may pick them up if you really want them on your way back out.
They are not required to enter here.
Kiss your ego and allow it to be still.
As you achieve your comfortable seated posture and consciously take in your next breath,
Also take in this assurance…
There is no need to achieve anything here…
There is no need to defend anything here…
This is a safe place.
All is one, in breath and life.
All is here—now.
If there is any request of you it is to allow yourself to remain present and as open as you can … to you!
It may be that you open wide to you today.
It may be that you peek through a crack and find a glimpse of you today.
The door opens, as you are ready. No sooner. No later.
And thus we create the connection
The YOGA -
Between
The anxiousness to see
And
The patience needed
To wait for the understanding.
It’s that space between the in-breath and the out-breath.
It may be uncomfortable at times.
Opening to ‘us’ can be so damn uncomfortable.
But it is in this space that we remember and receive.
Listen for it with your heart.
Feel it with your body.
Relish it with your spirit.
- Paul Reynolds
08/10/2009 at 5:05 pm Permalink
The message is quite clear to me. Twice in the last 2 weeks in my meditations I have been instructed to focus between……breaths…..between one thought and the next….at what I see and before I see the next thing or scenery. I have been listening and practicing….the next message was, “You are trying too hard.” I am enjoying the breath of just being. “Welcome” (above), touches the authentic me and it does make me feel welcome like I have never been welcomed before. Thank you!
08/10/2009 at 7:03 pm Permalink
Again one of my favorites…I read this again and again and rejoice as it refreshes my soul..
It is very special to me because these are your words and I can hear your voice reciting them…
So much to be grateful for every day…
08/10/2009 at 7:52 pm Permalink
Thank You Doreen for these heartfelt comments. I am honored. It sounds as if your meditation practice is pretty amazing.
08/10/2009 at 7:54 pm Permalink
Madame Zey, you are soooo very kind – you have made comments on ‘the voice’ as have others sooo we are going to experiment with some mp3 additions here in the near future. Thank you so much for continuing to stay connected to this ‘ol yogi….:o)!