Context and Content

I have been reading a lot of Christina Sell's words through her books and blog since I went to her workshop at Yoga East on October 14-15, 2011.  She is an inspiring lady who knows SO MUCH about yoga and how to express her views from her heart.  She had a post on her blog about the subject of context and content.  I have read the blog probably about 5-6 times all the way through.  It is really speaking to me right now and I have contemplated the piece for several days.  What follows is some of my words, but mostly her words on the subject.

Context is the larger picture, the universal in everything and if we lived with this larger picture in mind, then the content of our own choices would follow more naturally and easily.  We could intuitively know how to handle what life sends our way, instead of following what society says we should do, or what other people say we should do, or dealing with our own habitual patterns and our ever changing or never changing opinions.  The thing about context is that it can't be forced... we can't buy it or pretend we have it when we don't.  Context develops slowly, over time, as we mature.  I guess you could call it wisdom... that CONTEXT gets established inside of us, in it's own time and does not happen at the level of the mind or conscious will.  It's that "feeling" that you just know that what you are doing is right without consciously thinking about it, and then the CONTEXT and CONTENT come together and feels right.

Christina compared it to an alarm clock.  When the alarm goes off in the morning, she gets up, doesn't think much about the tone of the alarm... rarely presses the snooze, doesn't think back to what she was reflecting on when she set the alarm the night before.... she just turns off the alarm, gets up and gets on with the business of the day.  I LOVE this because basically I am much like that... I really don't over analyze or think about what life sends me too much.  I have people very dear to me that constantly think and never turn their brains off... it would wear me out!!    I am not saying that it is wrong to think too much, but for me I couldn't function, especially when I am teaching yoga.   When I teach yoga, I am totally present. 

The choices we make is a process of soul searching, not an easy place to be, but a very good place to be because we are doing the work of nourishing the seeds are of our CONTEXT.  The willingness to ask the difficult questions and sharpen our ability to get to the HEART of the matter and where our authentic truth resides and when we recognize our truth we can't help to live by what we hold sacred. 

Living from the heart, living our own truth, living in the moment brings context and content together.  I LOVE this!! 

Thanks to Christina Sell for writing about this subject on her blog.  I am going to continue to contemplate this process of context and content.