The Columbia City Yoga on-line Moving into Meditation class tried to meet this morning. Unfortunately my internet connectivity failed. Ironically, today’s class focused on ways our mindfulness practice can help us to live with uncertainty. I am finding this more and more important as a number of my friends and family members are experiencing health challenges. I’ve been struggling with the impulse to control situations. I want to do something to fix that which is a difficult and natural part of life. Trusting my own loving awareness helps me to accept what I can’t control. Practicing loving kindness – to include myself as well as others – helps me to find inner peace and rest.
We drew guidance from Kristi Nelson’s Grateful Living essay, Deepening Our Comfort with Uncertainty. Kristi suggests trusting life can help us to find a wider perspective in our relationship to the unknown. She shares a lovely “self-care” practice she uses to ease into the solace of sleep. What a beautiful way to transform a tormenting mind into an ally in well-being. Kristi Is author of Wake Up Grateful. She was Ambassador for Grateful Living and Executive Director from 2014 – 2022. You can find many of her essays and talks at her Grateful Living page.
We were inspired by poet philosopher John O’Donohue’s words about our wholeness. He made his observations in the Inner Landscape of Beauty, a conversation with Krista Tippett. It was one of the last interviews he gave before his unexpected death in 2008. He suggests that we all have a place inside that has not been wounded. After sitting with this idea for a while it began to make sense. John counsels that we rest in the inner sanctuary of our wholeness. I think he may have been referring to the soul. For me, this dimension of being is loving awareness.