Alt Title: Yoga Gave me the CTRL+Shift+C to Life*
Stepping back into “The Seat of Awareness” might sound like a complicated yogic pass time, but here’s a quick way to experience the essence of this idea and then use it in a practical way in your life:
Take a seat. Become aware of the body. How it feels. How it’s doing today. Checklist through the whole body: how are the feet, the calves, the knees and the thighs. How do the hips feel, the abdomen, the chest and shoulders. What do the shoulders, neck, head and face feel like? Just noticing.
Next become aware of the breath. Notice how the body moves with the inhales and exhales. See if you can “let the body be breathed” … trust the lungs to fill and empty naturally. Let yourself breath as slow and deep as you care to go today.
Thirdly, become aware of the thoughts and emotions. Let it be a brain dump of describing words, ideas, things you’ve beein pondering, or feelings you’ve been ignoring. Turn your attention directly towards the mind and it’s activity.
Once you’ve saturated in that mind activity for a moment – zoom out. Who was it that was witnessing the thoughts and emotions? Who is underneath the flurry of to do lists and expectations? Who is the witness?
When I was introduced to the idea that I am actually not my thoughts and feelings… was the day my world changed.
Not to be dramatic… but it was a real ah-ha moment for me.
My thoughts and feelings are like long standing computer codes in my system. They are built by my experiences of the world, my parent’s perspectives, the way my community behaves, the schooling I took in and the unique personal tint of my own worldview.
But it’s a worthy reminder, that I am not the codes themselves. I am the administrator. I am running the system. I am The Witness.
Sometimes that means cleaning up old files… what programs are no longer serving me? What applications need updating?
Practicing zooming out, in my case using yoga and meditation, has strengthened my ability to act as the administrator.
I get less carried away with the program/emotion and am able to respond instead of react to life.
What a powerful cheat code, hey?
For those wondering about the “CTRL+Shift+C” reference in the title, I was being cheeky about a Sims cheat code.
But upon further review, in an application like Google Chrome, CTRL Shift C opens the “Developer Tools panel”… how perfectly fitting! 🤭
Thank you for joining me for another blog post this week.
Wishing you a lovely weekend, and remember! The Beginner Meditator hits the WLE Classes page on Sunday! March 10th is our Daylight Savings spring forwards 🌷 and we do so armed with meditation tools. (Thank goodness! 😉)
With Love,
Esta
with love , Esta 
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