So, what’s new?
A friend I haven’t seen in a few weeks asked me this over the weekend. Actually, I’ve started a huge new project–more on that in the new year, it’s a secret for now–taken up painting, and been on a couple weekend trips. But the honest, most authentic answer I wanted to share was “nothing.”
Because the truth is that, despite all of these fun, nourishing new developments, there’s been some fairly major hard and challenging ones, and it’s been a pretty rough few weeks. I just didn’t have the energy to talk about the exciting stuff. I didn’t have it in me to be that smiley, happy, I’m here to lift you up lady I like to be. I love being there for people. I love caring for people. And that’s all I used to ask for–to be able to care for them.
But these days I’m learning what Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy so beautifully summed up in her latest e-alert:
It’s good to realize that when we work so hard NOT to “fall to pieces,” we’re missing the opportunities that this kind of surrender brings. When we can occupy or claim our vulnerability, we can ask for and receive new kinds of support and miracles. We can discover that healing happens in spirals and layers, and not in steps like a ladder. We can remember that great things grow in the dark.So here’s what I said: to be honest, I’ve been really tired lately. I’ve been doing a lot of sleeping. Things have been hard.
I love your last two posts. So raw … so real … and so inspiring in their honesty.
I have been following you for some time Lindsey and some other Yogic bloggers… not many of them seems to practice hand mudras along with yogic mudras.
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It's interesting to know that yoga teachers are also people and have down moments. A good reminder that we're all human : )
Absolutely. We're definitely human–just humans who have chosen a conscious practice and path that helps us mindfully navigate the ups and downs of life.