Pausing

(Photo- Loved this sign outside of a health food store in the Seminyak village in Bali, Indonesia) 

sit here in a new home, with a new schedule, new intentions and new goals. With this, I sit here with new and fresh disappointments as well as a full heart with a new found peace and a deeper sense of love and light within myself.

I remember days in what seems to be a life that was not so well lived, a lifetime ago; a young girl, so lost and without a sense of wonder for anything, and it's most humbling to be in this same "medium", in this same body and feel more radiant, more blessed, healthier and with a much stronger sense of purpose than I could have ever imagined back then.

I'm more accepting of my "humanness" today. I'm not free of discomforts, or self defeating thoughts 100% of the time, but I AM free.

I'm free from myself; out of captivity of my thinker and when I start to walk back into that coffin, I am reminded that I hold the key. I am reminded, as the Tao teaches, "If you wish to free yourself from the cage, you must die while you are alive". I have never forgotten this over the years since it's so clear that it means I have to die to MYSELF... to my habits, ways of thinking, and everything else.

Yoga teaches me that at the end of every day, I have to die to myself, again and again... if I want to WAKE UP; if I want to become stronger, more evolved and more beautiful in my soul than I was before. Yoga teaches me that I am radiant even when I forget it; and when I *do* forget, I step into this temple that is my body, my body in asana, my body in difficulty, and right into the the manas puja; or the divine shrine of my heart, and I remember that I can look out at everyone, everything, at YOU; and see myself.

I am whole.
I am full.
I am radiant.
I am beautiful.
I am blessed.
I am encouraged.
I am supported.
I am love.
I am with depth.
I am. I just AM.

all Love.
Sanieh
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