Let Go...

“I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free.”   - Thich Nhat Hanh 

Those words are really resonating within me today.   I’ve been experiencing some health issues lately (nothing big, so no need to worry).  I do not know why, but it seems to be human nature to freak out when something isn’t quite right on the health front.  My immediate thoughts are “Oh no!!!  That twinge in my knee means that I’m going to have knee surgery!  Then I’ll be laid up on sick leave and I won’t be able to teach yoga.!”   Like how sad is that?! Geeez!   The next morning I did not even know that I had a knee -no pain.   I basically wasted an entire day thinking of doom and gloom when I should have been enjoying the sunshine and being “light and free.”

It’s one of those things that I teach in yoga class…..”let go, live in the present”.  Hard to do some days, I know this from experience. I’m trying hard to put things in the right perspective and not to get ahead of myself.  I want to spend my energy on the positive and not on the negatives.  I want to spend my time “doing now” and not worry about “what if”.  I want to live “in the present” and not dwell on the past. 

I was talking to a student after class the other night and we were discussing yoga and what inspires us.  We both learned that we are inspired by this Sanskit verse:

Look well to this day

For yesterday is but a dream

And tomorrow is but a vision.

But today well lived

Makes yesterday a dream of happiness

And tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well to this day.

 

Namaste’

Sherry

 

 

 

 

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