Open and Fearless

Today in yoga class at Tricia's (Open Heart), my fear of balancing poses persisted. (A recent development in the past few weeks that started with an injury--a pull in the muscle attachments to my left sitting bone.)

I can't.

Try.

I can't.

My body obeyed. You can't go beyond what you think.

We were in our fourth and final dancer and Tricia said, "balance comes from within. Fill up the pose with internal energy, don't worry about what it looks like on the outside."

Let go (of control).

Let go (of fear)

Release.

And just like that, I felt like a balloon suddenly free of the crimps. All the twists gone, the energy expanded and the pose grew from the inside.

I felt like one of those balloon animals that had been twisted every which way, suddenly allowed to expand and take my true shape in the moment. The dancer lifted and expanded without any effort from me.

A holiday reminder: Stress is largely self-constructed (by fear, resistance, what we think/decide we know to be true). Truth is available to us every moment, but only if we are fully present. Change is constant (moment to moment)--reliance on the past erases our ability to live in the present. Let the change come. Be open and fearless. Let love out, and in.

Peace.