“Act as if you trust your God” Anonymous

 

To review - the intention this month is:  I trust the Good Orderly Direction in my life and I let it unfold and the Niyama is: Ishvara Pranidhana - to surrender.  This Niyama reminds us that through devotion, trust, and active engagement we can receive every moment with an open heart.  

Last week I asked a few questions concerning this intention and Niyama, did you have a chance to reflect on them?  Take a moment and click over to week 1 if you have not.  This week can you “act as if you trust your God (Good Orderly Direction)”?  Journal for a few minutes about how you would feel and act if you were trusting and take those thoughts with you this week.  Remember this intention and the Niyama presupposes that we have faith and trust in something, anything! Yoga is not a religious practice but it is spiritual in nature and in its simplest form spirituality is a reliance on something, anything as long as it is not YOU!  Get out of the way, you are slowing God down!! God can be the good orderly direction of your life, the great out doors, Budda, Allah or a religious God - again, just not you!  Find your way to trust your God and put that faith into action by some form of daily Sadhana, preferably in the morning. (Sadhana is a Sanskrit term used to refer to a daily spiritual practice. ... Anything that is practiced with awareness, discipline and the intention of spiritual growth can be considered as Sadhana, but it must be practiced alone and for the sake of the individual.). Take time this cold month of January to slow down and honor yourself in some way - try the meditation this month daily, take a yoga class, go for a walk, a hike, a swim - whatever works for you, just commit and do it!

 

And a little meditation plug from my functional medical doctor, Dr Frank Lipman that I love!!! 

"Meditation reduces activity in the circuits of the brain responsible for wandering thoughts and for thinking about yourself.  And it's that kind of chronic distractedness, as well as the fixation on yourself, that's responsible for a lot of personal unhappiness."