April 2026 week 3

During our meditation this week I read a passage from Melody Beattie entitled “relax”, I also read a few lines in our yoga class. It is kind of long so I don’t want to type it all out, but I think it is worth listening to on the meditation.

Here are a few lines I loved:
“Too often out of sheer habit we tighten up, tense up, and then approach life from that stance. When we have something to do, our automatic response may be to tense up - shoulders and neck strained, back bent and cramped, breathing shallow. But anything that needs to be done can be done better if we are relaxed.
Learn to relax.
Empty your mind of tense thoughts, and let it follow your body into relaxation and calm. Allow your mind to become still. Quietly accept each thought, then release it.
Just as water cannot pass naturally through a pinched hose, your vital life force cannot flow freely through you if you are cramped and tense.
Honor the life force that is in you, that flows through you. Honor it by relaxing, opening to it, and inviting it to surge through your body.”
Just like our intention - I don’t chase what’s meant for me. I clear the blocks and let it flow - this reading is inviting us to relax, let go, release - all of the above - so that our life can flow. This is great work for the beginning of spring, to uncover and identify the blocks that are in the way of your life flowing. Let’s relax this week and keep in the flow.