RockStarYoga
  • perspective: why
  • musings
  • teaching: where, when + which
  • private yoga
  • rasayana: bodywork
  • mentoring + mental arts
  • ceremony + ritual
  • bio: who + what
  • education: what + how
  • connect: talk to me
  • snapshots
    • Yoga Advance - Isla Mujeres 2014
    • Rockstarring
    • Planet K
    • Play-asana
    • Students, Teachers, Friends, Inspirations
    • Easter Island, Patagonia, Chile
    • Turkey, Anatolia, Cappadocia
    • Isla Mujeres
    • Tulum, Yucatan, Coba
  • videos
  • offerings

What Can Be Done With What You Have Right Now?

8/6/2012

1 Comment

 
Picture
Too often, each of us finds ourselves thinking in terms of 'someday' or even 'when it's like this, it'll be like that'. Forecasting and speculating, into a future that I argue we aren't actively creating or manifesting, but rather waiting for it to occur, or just simply happen to us.

As I like to ask, how is that waiting for things to get better thing going for you? Are things getting better just because you wait around, or have you found that putting a little bit of energy and intention into your day is giving you some purpose? That your purpose helps you create meaningful moments and that the sum total of engaging positively in manifesting the life around and in  you just gets a little bit easier, and your life thereby, more satisfying?

I propose that it's all happening, with and without us. Unfortunately, if you've ever lost a loved one tragically or without warning, the world just keeps maddeningly rolling along, oblivious to our loss or gain. That's not to depress or diminish, that actually is part of my spiritual view - that death gives meaning to life, and that life is for the living to celebrate. WIth our without us, circles 'round the sun, on and on.

So, I see waiting around for things to get better is a pretty crazy gamble, especially since entropy and chaos are the winning forces in physics. But, imbuing purpose and meaning into moments, creating intentional momentum and having goals; maybe not hard-fast and steady goals that are empirical, but rather goals of the heart, and then doing the work for the work's sake, not the end result. 

Practice that rare detachment that allows you to care enough to give all of your effort, but also surrender to what will occur. Knowing the work itself is sometimes greater and more subtle service than the outcome may ever be.

Rather than waiting, use what is in you, around you, in front of you. What can you do, today, with what  you know - be more firm, be more kind, be more loving, be more discerning? Serve, give, receive, learn, teach?? Not when you think you are ready, but when you can which is the same now as you are currently hearing these words in your head in. Move into the action, move into the space - see what presents. Greet it, meet it, don't think you have to bet it.

Most folks on their deathbed regret exactly the same things: not saying 'I love you' more, not taking the chances, and 'waiting' rather than living. So, get your living on - when you meet new folks and they ask you what you do for a living, reply "LIVE!"

And, give thanks and praise - make a bold beginning today!

1 Comment
Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan link
8/6/2012 03:59:41 am

This is *exactly* why Dave and I have jumped into a bunch of new things with both feet this year: our new business, yoga, meditation, intentionally being grateful... I decided I'd rather go down in flames than be sitting in my office job feeling "meh."

Great post! Thank you.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    Chrispy - Bhagat Singh

    Random thoughts I've had, while teaching, about the teachings, about my teaching, and while talking about teaching.

    Connect with me:
    Facebook: 
    chrispy bhagat singh
     Facebook:
    RockStarYoga
    Facebook:
    RaSaYana
    YouTube:

    chrispy bhagat singh
    Instagram:
    petrastella
    Twitter: 
    petrastella

    Email: 
    rockstar@rockstaryoga.us

    Picture

    Archives

    July 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012

    Categories

    All
    Anusara
    Asana
    Asana Practice
    Brain
    Calendar
    Chakras
    Challenge
    Collaboration
    Community
    Compassion
    Discernment
    Experience
    Happiness
    Holy Days
    Lent
    Love
    Magic
    Mindfulness
    Nyt
    Observance
    Patanjali
    Practice
    Resources
    Shadow
    Shine
    Sutras
    Teachers
    Teaching
    Yoga

    Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.