Grace has your back

Reading from Tuesday, September 8, 2015 yoga class

Several years ago, I had the opportunity to study with Todd Norian.  A kind, gentle teacher whom I learned a lot from in one short weekend.

From the Ashaya Yoga website and the post entitled Choosing Alignment with Nature by Todd Norian

"Nature never ceases to amaze me.  Recently in my Kripalu Retreat based on the Five Elements, the only day of rain was on the water element day.  This is not the first time synchronicity has happened.  In fact, every time I've offered this course, whether at Kripalu or Esalen in CA, an eerie synchronicity like this happens!

In life, there are no coincidences.  Whenever any synchronicity happens, it's the affirmation of the universe telling you that you are in the right place and that grace has your back.  When it started to rain on the water day in my program, I said to myself, Okay, I get the message.  Trust the process.

The truth is that whether there's a synchronicity or not, grace always has your back and the universe is always giving you signals and subtle messages of how to proceed.  Go this way. Go that way. Stay steady. Let go.  When you align with the divine, every moment becomes an opportunity to lead from your heart and flow with the current of life.

The problem is that we become out of alignment with nature.  So often we get distracted or deluded into negative thinking or feelings of unworthiness and hopelessness.

Yoga teaches that you have a choice.  You must choose to create a boundary of protection from thinking habitual negative thoughts.  Activate your will to create new channels of thought; channels that accept, allow space, forgive, love and uplift.  You need to create new channels of hope, opportunity, inspiration, and goodness.  The way to overcome negative emotions is not to push them away but learn how to move toward them, accept and embrace them.  You need to look deeply into them and listen for the message they are trying to tell you."