Finding Balance: Embracing Dualities in Life
I read an email from Vivian over at Coherence Sound Healing the other day… and it was just so darn beautiful.
She highlighted some of it in a recent Instagram post:
I think it hit home for me on a couple levels…
One is that I am feeling the winter blues and the sparkle coming back feeling – very much! ❄️✨
Vivian articulated this feeling perfectly, so I will simply quote her:
That’s the thing about life, isn’t it? It’s always both/and. You can feel two completely opposite things at the same time. You can be exhausted and hopeful. You can be overwhelmed and excited. You can be buried under snow and still find little sparks of joy.
And two: this contrast, this both the light in the dark and the dark in the light – reminds me of a yoga concept…
The idea of “sthira sukham”, or the idea of “strong and sweet”.
(I love how Viveka Gardens writes about this idea of “strong & sweet“.)
Many a blog post has been written on this topic of steadiness and ease.
In just Plain Jane language, this sounds like “feeling strong and easy” in a yoga pose on the mat.
When you are being encouraged to find a “lift and a grounding” by the yoga teacher…
they are trying to evoke this embrace of both dualities at once.
I will finish this brief little thoughts with love post, with a short and sweet story on meditation. It was out of one of many books read in my yoga teacher training, but essentially the story goes:
in meditation, we should be sitting with everything that comes up. the gratitude, the sadness, the anger, anything and everything that arises, and just be with it.
acknowledging each one with, “yes, this too.”
Thank you so much for being here.
Sharing the tools of meditation and yoga is deeply important to me.
Wishing you strength and ease as you acknowledge “this too.”
You can find more from me in the MOVE with Love and BREATHE with Love libraries here at withloveesta.ca
with love , Esta 
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