Day 4
It was incredibly appropriate that I noticed a cockroach laying belly up on the floor 8 feet in front of me just after I started my sun salutations this morning. (Just in case you're thinking I'm a slob, everyone has cockroaches in Hawaii. It's just a fact of life.)
Normally, I'd get a tissue, pick it up, and throw it in the garbage, but today I decided to look at it as an omen. The yoga asana practice is such a perfect reflection of where the rubber meets the road between the soul and the ego personality. As they say, "The issues are in the tissues!" I had a bit of resistance to doing the asana this morning, so the cockroach was a perfect reminder of corpse pose, the final surrender, the death of the illusion of the individual ego.
This process of soul evolution is holistic - yoga asana without the meditation, mantras & pranayama can get to focused on the physical, and the esoteric practices without the physical asana can be ungrounded. To do it all synergistically keeps the evolution progressing on a steady, safe, integrated trajectory. It's gradual, but assured, since all of the potential energy leakages are sealed. (Imagine Indian accent here...) Thank you, my little cockroach friend, for your great teaching! :) LOL.
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