The asanas and kriyas we practice in yoga are designed to return our bodies to their original, expansive, unencumbered form – free of the years of misguided, image-based, fear-based posturing – free of the stiff and weighty armor we have unconsciously taken on over the course of decades, in what we assumed to be tiny acts of self-preservation.
We have made ourselves “heavy” and “small.” Maybe we thought this left us tougher targets for the inevitable slings and arrows of misfortune that were sure to rain down on us at any moment. Maybe at some point in our lives we truly were in danger, or maybe we just thought we were. It doesn’t matter. The preemptive girding of the loins (and various other portions of our anatomy) is completely understandable in light of a world in which fear is the primary motivating force.
Our work in yoga, indeed our work in life, is to wake to a new reality, or more accurately, to create a new one – to move from the closed posture of fear into the open one of love. By creating room in our bodies for this new possibility, we are sending an unmistakable signal to ourselves: that deep and profound change is possible. The metaphysician is interested in the very same result, only she is working on the body of her beliefs. The question then becomes, how do we do for our minds what we are doing for our bodies?
How do we heal our consciousness? We heal by distinguishing ourselves from our thoughts and feelings. When we can do this we get a full-on Here/Now experience of who we actually are, without the historical prejudice. The reason I wrote “When You Reach the End of Your Rope, Let Go!” was to facilitate this process. I’m honored and quite thrilled to tell you that Dr. David Hawkins (Power vs. Force, The Eye of the I) recently recommended “When You Reach the End of Your Rope, Let Go!” as an evolutionary tool in his latest book “Transcending the Levels of Consciousness”.
That’s all for now. Be Well…
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