Day 11~ Flaking Out On The Mat

  • By onthemat
  • 12 Jan, 2017
Oh my. Not my best day…..I went to the absolute best class today, but really could not focus. I mean it was bad. Everybody was going right and I was going left. Downward Dog for others was Pyramid for me. I know that is ok if it is intentional, but this was not a way […]
Oh my. Not my best day…..I went to the absolute best class today, but really could not focus. I mean it was bad. Everybody was going right and I was going left. Downward Dog for others was Pyramid for me. I know that is ok if it is intentional, but this was not a way for me to express personal preferences, it was general confusion driven by intense preoccupation. I had this great opportunity to start my day feeling present and engaged and instead I could not get my mind off what was coming my way for the rest of the day. I would love to say that this is an anomaly, but today I feel like my existence on the mat was very reflective of what is often going on in my life. In in the end though I am dialing the positive and am taking the stand that in awareness there is possibility.

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By Linda Malcomb 03 May, 2020

“There is a light in the core of our being that calls us home—one that can only be seen with closed eyes; We can feel it as a radiance in the center of our chest. This light of loving awareness is always here, regardless of our conditioning. It does not matter how many dark paths we have traveled or how many wounds we have inflicted or sustained as we have unknowingly stumbled toward this inner radiance. It does not matter how long we have sleepwalked, seduced by our desires and fears. This call persists until it is answered, until we surrender to who we really are. When we do, we feel ourselves at home wherever we are. A hidden beauty reveals itself in our ordinary life. As the true nature of our Deep Hear is unveiled, we feel increasingly grateful for no reason—grateful to simply be.”

—John J. Prendergast, PHD, The Deep Heart  

By Linda Malcomb 02 May, 2020

Seems like it’s been rainy, windy, dreary for eons. Which may have helped us shelter inside a bit more. I remember reading years and years ago in a Seth book that weather can be influenced, and even created by mass human emotion. Why not? We are far more powerful than we currently acknowledge, and science is beginning to validate many phenomena that had seemed inconceivable before. Those seemingly endless days of “bad” weather seemed congruent with the emotional tone of covid her in New England. And now SUN! Glorious, warming, invigorating, hope-filled Sun! Today I will be outside basking and gardening and thanking. And I’m sure the whole neighborhood, and most of New England will go outside, stand with our faces to the sun and breathe a huge healing breath of joy. And maybe the collective energy of that will resonate out across the word as a promise of brighter days to come.     


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