Dear Friends,
Recently I completed a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training. I remain a bit perplexed as I am not sure I want to be a Yoga Teacher. I was talking to a friend of mine about this and she was sharing a similar journey with me in terms of her own life. She stated she was currently in that quiet place between where she was and where she was yet to be. I loved that!! There was no judgement, just acceptance of the “in between place”. When a place is quiet, there are no “should’s, planning, worrying, pushing, pulling” to be any place else. There is just this moment and then another moment and then another.
In my energy work with others, this “in between place”, is the place of neutrality. I provide energetic strengthening to assist a person to become “neutral” energetically to whatever is happening in his/her lives that is causing discontent. The reason “neutrality or the quiet in between place’ is so powerful is because this is where all possibilities exist. It is a place where Life Force, Universal Energy, God, whatever you call the higher power in your life, can bring to you easily the very thing your soul is yearning to create for you.
I ponder on why it is that we are always wanting to get somewhere quickly. Why is it that we want to get the answer quickly, build something quickly, drive somewhere quickly, etc etc. And the ultimate thing we usually want to be completed in a hurry is our own healing, especially when that thing we want to heal from is causing us to slow down, to be in pain, and to not get things done the way we want to complete them.
I know many of you have heard the phrase “it is the journey that is important and not the destination”. But if we contemplate on this thought for a moment, and ask ourselves why the journey is so important, we might be surprised at the answer. The answer is this: The journey is important because that is where we experience fun and learning. The destination can be wonderful but the journey is where the fullness of life resides!
Even with healing, there can be fun to experience, and joy to be found. A dear friend of mine who is receiving chemo for her situation has so much fun interacting with the other people joining her while partaking in their own journey. She has made friends and influences others wherever she goes.
In my own journey with the Yoga training, I often found myself looking forward to when the 9 weekends were over. And yet, when I immersed myself in the training and participated fully with the people, I had so much fun! Yes, the training was painful at times, as it stretched me literally and figuratively, yet within that pain was laughter and many moments of pleasure.
Can we really have moments of joy and pain at the same time and the answer is resoundingly YES! We are not one dimensional beings, but multidimensional creatures. We have many many parts of us that can experience and assimilate an array of things in our lives at the same time and do it beautifully. That is why we can experience fun, joy and happiness while going thru something that our minds perceive as painful and frustrating.
When we remain in that “quiet of the in between place” we are in the most profound place we can be or experience. It is the place where angels hover and God whispers truth and love to us. It is where the spark of divinity exists and is ready to ignite great passions, great insights, great healings. However, when we push, prod, fret, complain, about where we are at, those whispers are much harder to hear and acknowledge.
Every day, we can enter that “quiet of the in between place” when we take moments to slow done, ponder, meditate, reflect, and nothing more. When we become in that quiet place our heart rate slows down, our breathing becomes deeper, our very cells function more fully because they are getting more oxygen and blood and energy into the fabric of their beings. And the natural intelligence of our own cells can work more efficiently because our negative thought patterns aren’t sending waves of dysfunctional energy and toxins into their bodies.
Even if you are working a busy job you can take moments, snippets of time, to enter that quiet zone. A couple of men who participated in the yoga training and who work at a large corporation in the area, shared that they take moments during their day to stop and center themselves with meditation. The techniques we learned can be completed in a few minutes and have profound effect on our days. Other people who work in various offices stated the same thing. I had this thought, that wouldn’t it be amazing if every corporation could encourage their employees to take a few minutes every hour to “enter the quiet place”. Can you imagine the productivity that would ensue, and how the health of the population in that company would improve? And most likely, job satisfaction would be enhanced as well!
My suggestion, to any of you that are dealing with stressful lives, stressful jobs, painful injuries or health conditions, is to take a few minutes every hour to enter “the quiet place” between where you are and where you want to be. If you are trying to figure out a problem, stop and enter the “quiet zone”. Allow the angels to hover and God to whisper the answers to you.
If you have an illness, enter this “quiet place” often. You can ask for guidance and then rest, knowing that the answers are in the air all around you. In the “quiet place” breathe peacefully and allow every cell of your being to assimilate the energy that is being transmuted to you by the Will of the Divine. If negativity seeps into the quiet, just let it move on through. Negativity is a build up of collective thoughts and emotions that don’t really belong to any of us, we just think they do and then we hold on to them. Let them go, let them go, let them go…..breathe and smile.
Wishing you all much fun and learning along your journey and many quiet moments of the in between place, no matter what is occurring in your lives. You will be transformed.
Namaste,
Rosemary
Dear Rosemary
I’m so pleased that you have written about the quiet space between activities, so necessary to remember. I find my quiet space being on my allotment watching the life of the insects! I arrive with a list of jobs but end up being fascinated by the world in miniature. But it’s very calming. Thank you so much for your timely writing, always thought provoking.
Love and blessings
Penny
Dear Penny,
That sounds wonderful too! I love insects and watching bees in particular! I love how you said, “the world in miniature”! As always, thank you for your thoughtful comments.
Much Love, Rosemary