Dear Yogis,
I hope all of you are well and returning back to your pleasant routines after the holidays. While we may cherish our holidays, it is our daily routines and their dependable predictability that are the cornerstones of long-term personal growth, good health, scientific innovation, and a thriving, well-functioning society. Chaos and disruption, even if welcome, are the antithesis of all that is beneficial to us as a species.
This week, while you practice self-love and gratitude, explore your routines and the role they play in keeping you healthy and fit, physically and mentally. What is your one daily, dependable and delightful fitness routine? What is your fitness go-to? It has to have all three “D”attributes - daily, dependable and delightful. Contemplate it and raise your awareness of what makes you happy, healthy and hardy. You got it? Your three Ds - daily, dependable, delightful - will lead your to the three Hs - happy, healthy, and hardy. (PS: No surprise here, my daily go-to are yoga and meditation. )
As I wish you all a happy, healthy and hardy year 2023, I am reminded of an old Italian proverb - “help yourself and God will help you.” (God, here, representing the pure miracle of being helped when we need it.) I will change the proverb, just for us, to “heal yourself and God will heal you.” Please enjoy a poem by yung pueblo from his book “inward”.
healing yourself will ask more of you
more rest
more self-love
more letting go
more time for learning
more space for transformation
more honesty about how you feel
more time developing good habits
more courage to try new practices
more faith in yourself and the process
more time cultivating your inner peace
