It is true. TIME is a perception. When I zone into my practice time just flutters away and all that exists is nothingness. It feels as if the world as we know it has floated away. I find a place that is void of marks, the way we mark moments, minutes, hours, days. Smooth and without dots and dashes is the way I am when I am breathing and moving in this wave-like journey when i am there on my mat. My body has this fluid-liquid-like state and there is no yesterday, and no tomorrow. There is only NOW....in and out of my breath and ME.
Sometimes it is hard to want to come back from a place that is so non-script and void of naming. Hard to want to come back to a world that is full of suffering and pain. However, to know that I can go to this place at any time. To know that I can have this practice at my disposal in my mind, in my heart and in my breath at any time I need to use it is wonderful.
Admittedly finding my yoga-zone isn't always an easy task. My heart isn't always in it and sometimes finding that release and surrender isn't always easy. Practicing yoga is still always possible. It is always possible to breath. It is always possible to take note of my breath. I can always notice that I am breathing fast and short, for example and always notice that I am "holding the breath" due to stress. Maybe I can't settle myself that day enough to sit and meditate because I am too antsy but I can take a jog because that is the Yoga my body is asking for and so I do it and then I have expended the energy my body needed to. I do find that after that I am finally able to flow through my breath to some asana and then finally to some stretching and lastly to my savasana. Lovely, lovely savasana.
Life has brought me to this place. A place I never knew I was looking for. I never knew it was missing from me. A place where I can finally just begin to really SEE ME. In that place on my mat where there is NO time.
By Dragonfly
Entry inspired by this article:
http://www.yogitimes.com/article/concept-notion-time-yoga-slow-down-present
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