That’s the recipe for experiencing confidence, interest, and friendliness in our lives. The body and mind need to work together in order to fully experience clarity of mind and radiant health. Yoga is a path to these same fruits, but when your mind is jumpy, sleepy, or full of angry thoughts, your body will reflect that with a tight jaw, saggy shoulders, or a knot in your belly. That sounds good, but if your back is sore, your digestion is sluggish, and your nerves are fried, it’s tough to stabilize any kind of mental wakefulness or confidence. Strength, stability, and clarity of mind are said to be the fruits of mindfulness meditation. We forget that what we need to find this kind of well-being is completely available to us all the time. All of us tend to look outside of ourselves for the source of contentment, and that’s exactly how we create our own discomfort. Maybe if we lived here all the time we’d always feel boundless and accessible…ahhh…that’s a trap. This feeling comes naturally here but just as easily dissolves when we’re confronted with the “too many people, too little time, too much to do” syndrome of everyday life back in Manhattan. Sitting on our veranda at Strawberry Hill, a mountaintop retreat in Jamaica where we are teaching a workshop, it’s easy to feel spacious and alive, vast and open, connected to sky and earth.
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