I need to see clearly now. – Yoga path conversations

When I was pregnant with my first child, I horrified my husband in developing the desire to see “Baby 911” programs. During Covid, I changed my fiction reading to the reading of the medical newspaper. When the times become uncertain, my coping strategy of choice seems to be: standing in one place and observing, observing, observing.

These are uncertain times again. Life at this time feels anxious and persistent as a low battery fire alarm in the middle of the night! I am “displacement of fatality” and then I wonder if this is healthy. But I think that for me, taking a blackout of the information during this uncertain time would be similar to taking out the fire alarm battery. I need to see.

In the yoga world, the idea of ​​seeing clearly and honestly is called Satya. It is the practice of being in the here and now and observing. You observe what is happening in this reality as honestly as you can. Then you look at your reactions. What have been your thought patterns since this new reality began? What behavior patterns have you been doing? Where are you feeling this in your body?

When I was in the uncertainty of my first pregnancy, I dreamed of the future. But I discovered that dreaming of the brilliant and pink future made the awkward reality of being worse. Doing small things in my current reality, how to decorate the nursery and leave long, seemed a better coping strategy.

So, in these current uncertain times, how can I add some pleasure to my reality instead of trying to desire it? Is there a creative effort that can start and complete here? Is there a physical objective that can begin and achieve in this here and now with this body and this time?

It is not forever, but this is how it is now.

Until next time

Laura