by Rosie Bason, Mullumbimby, NSW
I recently attended an esoteric yoga workshop on quality of being versus quantity of doing.
Unlike the yoga classes that are all about postures and breath, Esoteric yoga allows you the time and space to connect to your body and be still.
I learnt so much about myself – it was awesome. Since the workshop I have been observing myself throughout the day.
For example, when I wake up in the morning I go straight into this autopilot (which I wasn’t even aware of up until this last week)… my mind goes into thinking, “what will I make for breakfast?” “what will I pack for my daughter’s lunch?” “what do I have to DO today?” – and then I jump out of bed and start DOING. I never stopped to feel how I was; it was all just Do, Do, DO!
This week I have woken up, ignored the impulse to DO, and just stayed with me in my bed to feel me, to feel my being. (It hasn’t been an easy task, as I feel that I am a creature of habit!)
When I take the time to feel my body, to check in with how I’ve slept, if I have any aches or pains, and to gently observe if there are any issues troubling my mind, it is such a lovely experience. It gives me a chance to re-connect to me.
I am curious as to why I have avoided this connection, because it feels great. Why did I choose instead to Do and never stop to just BE? Is it because we are recognised for what we DO instead of who we ARE?
It doesn’t take long in the morning just to BE, and then I can get up and do all the things that need to be done; but instead of doing them on autopilot, I am doing them with me.
When I do things with me, I do them feeling my body, and this way I cannot ignore or over-ride how my body is feeling.
I have also been taking moments during the day to stop what I am doing and to just BE. It doesn’t take long, just three minutes and it has been a great practice.
Thank you to Serge and the beautiful people that are offering the yoga workshops and sessions, I have been able to feel more of me, and I am loving it.
Words on Serge Benhayon 
“It doesn’t take long in the morning just to BE, and then I can get up and do all the things that need to be done; but instead of doing them on autopilot, I am doing them with me.” This is a beautiful sentence because it’s about the return to ourselves in daily life, that we don’t have to go through life empty and distracting ourselves with busyness, we can be enjoying the fullness of our being as we complete tasks, and honouring our body as we go.
This is what I so appreciate about Esoteric yoga as you say Rosie it allows people the time and space to connect to their bodies and be still. This isn’t something that we allow ourselves as there always seems to be something that needs to be done, the check list gets longer each day. But by giving ourselves the space to just be still and feel, our bodies can communicate so much back to us, such as aches and pains we have not given ourselves the time to feel. What we then do with this clear communication then becomes a choice to listen to our bodies or ignore them.
For the last few days, I was noticing how I was waking up with raciness and a general feeling of unsettlement and it has been hard not to go into a kind of semi-overwhelm just by imagining how much there is for me to do, and I could feel how I am wanting to invite the concept of time even if there is no time pressure to intensify those feelings. Here I am being reminded to simply come back to myself, constantly, persistently.
I’ve recently started to spend time with myself each morning as soon as I wake, one of the key things that supports me is being with my body by checking in with and feeling each body part starting with the feet and legs and moving upwards. I learnt this from my Esoteric Yoga sessions. It’s making a huge impact on the quality of my day, is super simple to do, and I can repeat this through the day to stay connected to myself.
This is a lovely exercise to start our day with, or even to apply at different points throughout the day, ‘ being with my body by checking in with and feeling each body part starting with the feet and legs and moving upwards.’
It’s very beautiful to read about your experience with Esoteric Yoga and the difference you are making in your life Rosie. Very inspiring to realize that every moment, every task, every step we make can be used as an opportunity to feel and be more of us. It’s like we can bring in to action the quality that we develop in each session. Love that.
Inma I can appreciate what you are saying here
“Very inspiring to realize that every moment, every task, every step we make can be used as an opportunity to feel and be more of us”
When we allow the opportunity to stop, feel and reconnect to ourselves, we can feel that there is something more for us to attune to which is the aspect of our soul, this is the part that is missing from our lives and because it is missing we live in the unrest and distraction. We accept the ‘doing’ as a normal way to live as a result of the disconnection to our soul.
This is powerful, using every moment, movement, and/ or task to stay present and deepen our connection with self, ‘Very inspiring to realize that every moment, every task, every step we make can be used as an opportunity to feel and be more of us’.
What Esoteric Yoga offers is very unique. There is no rules or expectations, no levels or points to reach, no right or wrong….just an space that allows us to reconnect back to the natural stillness within us.
“I learnt so much about myself – it was awesome.” With Esoteric Yoga the more we choose to just BE the more awesome we are.
Yoga is a union, thus when connected to our essence that union is divine and there-after every movement shall have a quality that we can take into our day, therefore walking can be an activity of Esoteric Yoga.
This is such a supportive reminder to check in with how our bodies are feeling on a regular basis so that we do not get caught up in the endless cycle of doing that can be so all consuming.
I agree Helen, I find once I get caught up in the thinking I am disconnected from my body and can be racy and rough with myself without realising. Having small stop moments to simply check in with myself, my breath, my body, and how I feel is very supportive to break patterns of not being present with myself.
Esoteric yoga allows us the space to connect back with our bodies, and the natural stillness within.
The quality of our body, reflected in (and magnified by) the quality of our movements does not receive the consideration it merits.
This is very true Eduardo, we completely disregard our movements they have become functional or habitual we have little understanding that our movements are so ingrained that they impact us with every move and if you watch how some people move you can see the depression or sadness etc., that they are moving around in. How can we stop being sad, angry, depressed etc., if we are actually moving that energy wherever we go?
“When I do things with me, I do them feeling my body, and this way I cannot ignore or over-ride how my body is feeling.” Thank you Rosie I agree. Through allowing myself to feel my body more and more and to stop overriding my body helped to reduce me being ill. Before I always ignored the signals of my body because my will was so strong to do so and then I was wondering why my body did not function as I wanted and got ill.
It is so beautiful and truly amazing to move and live with greater connection to my body and being, to Soul, in which the mind then works in response and impulsed by this connection rather than having the disconnected mind dictating how we live and move, which never considers the wisdom and well-being of the body.
The mind was never meant to be the authority, but instead the servant of the innermost heart.
What you have written Melinda feels very beautiful
“The mind was never meant to be the authority, but instead the servant of the innermost heart.”
We are so lost as a race of human-beings but we still invest in our minds over our bodies even though our bodies are breaking down through so much misuse. It just doesn’t make sense to me.
The mind is definitely not a great driver of the body, it’s really only our love that knows the way.
Moving and living with connection to our body, as opposed to allowing the mind to step in and override the body’s innate wisdom and love of our being is the only way to live.
The ingrained pattern of doing is not an easy habit to kick but with the support of the body and its awareness, it is absolutely possible when we nominate all the times when we have gone back and appreciate every time when we choose quality first.
Yes appreciating our choices is key to changing our behaviour and letting go of the constant doing that has plagued us for so long.
It is important to appreciate and confirm when we are connected to our body as we complete our tasks, ‘When I do things with me, I do them feeling my body, and this way I cannot ignore or over-ride how my body is feeling.’
It does not take long at any moment to just be — I can tell you it is the be all and end all of the All.
Waking up to the thoughts of what do I have to immediately activates the drive to tick that list of things to do which will often be at the expense of quality.
Beautifully said Bryony for quality is everything.
Doing is such a strong habit and if we don’t take that time to stop, connect and just be we can so easily loose ourselves in that whirlwind of doing. The beauty of Esoteric Yoga is it offers us a simple way to feel how it is to be with and move our bodies in full presence and in doing so we get to see how we are in life … it’s a gorgeous tool supporting us to observe and be more spacious, gracious and loving with ourselves, and of course everything.
What I have found is by stilling my body I can feel how racy my thoughts are, it’s as though my mind dislike the stillness being offered and wants to distract my body from the stillness that Esoteric Yoga offers.
Esoteric Yoga supports us to build a muscle of being with our bodies, making connection primary in our daily activities.
It was good to read this at the start of my working week and to look at how I jump out of bed in the readiness to ‘get going’ instead of honouring my body and moving with a quality that will support me in my day.
Reversing the trend from making it all about the doing, to allowing ourselves to focus on the being, takes a bit of time and practice but is so worth it. When we just ‘do’ without focusing at all on the quality of our being, without connecting to that, life feels flatter and emptier, and the drive to do is relentless. When we just allow ourselves to be, life feels quite amazing and full, and there’s a simple contentment at just being with ourselves that feels simple and full of itself – no need for anything from the outside. We just know that we are enough, and that is very beautiful to feel.
It feels very different being connected with ourselves, our body, and just being, as opposed to making life about doing, and having no connection.
It is beautiful to not leave ourselves behind. It just feels when we are in our last moments in life, have we felt complete that I have been with myself and have been present to all the moments experienced and celebrated this presence and awareness? It would feel so loving to be and feel that.
To ‘be’ feels totally different in my body compared to when I am in ‘doing’ mode, the ‘doing’ involves a lot of control and nervous energy, when I allow myself to ‘be’ I surrender to a simplicity and flow that feels delicious in my body.
Gorgeous to feel more of our true divine nature, waking up in the morning is a great time to connect and take us into our day, stop moments throughout the day bring us back to our bodies to feel, this helps us to not get so caught up in the continual doing.
Beautiful to feel the connection first before the action, from yoga in movement the doing is all taken care of.
Well said Sally and so true – the quality of our connection is what governs the quality of our movements.
We so train ourselves to do, and to jump from one doing to another, ignoring the being in this continual motion. But when we stop and be there is another quality. one which is just simply us and means that anything we do comes with that quality of us and who we are and in fact you then doing get a ‘doing machine’ you get the essence of us in what we do, which is very different.
Our quality is always paramount in everything we do, how we move, how we breathe, how do we speak; what quality of energy are we allowing in our bodies that then affects the All.
The Esoteric Yoga Modality gives us space to just be and deeply connect with ourselves; we can then bring this quality into our movements throughout the day and feel part of the flow of life instead of the rush or drive we can get into.
When we make yoga to be about postures, we make it about form. Esoteric yoga is always about form-lessness
It’s great to read this blog again, Rosie, as I have been feeling racy lately and finding it very difficult to connect with myself. I was going into thinking how I should be feeling instead, and how I should ‘change’ this, but I realise now it is actually this ‘thinking’ that gets in the way and makes it all complicated and creates an issue out of nothing. I love the simplicity you share here.
I used to be all about ‘doing.’ Esoteric yoga has helped me to focus on simply being first. I still get things done, but it’s less about rushing and drive, and more about the quality I choose to do things in. I have a greater feeling of settlement in my body that feels lovely.
The quality we do things in is always paramount, are we in settlement, or rushing to get things done?
Learning that we are enough for being who we truly are..mistakes, warts and and all, is a huge work in progress for so many of us, as the recognition for what we do is so ingrained from young. Esoteric yoga is an amazing modality that provides the space to feel who we truly are without the need to be or do anything else.
I’ve been asking this question too ‘I am curious as to why I have avoided this connection’ … I connect to my body but not consistently, so I’m am playing with allowing myself more time to connect to and be with me.
Lovely, allowing ourselves space to be, to connect and be with our bodies feels settling, ‘When I do things with me, I do them feeling my body, and this way I cannot ignore or over-ride how my body is feeling.’
Although I know it so well, is it about the being and not about the doing. Life is very challenging as there is so much to do and I am easily trapped into the motion life is presenting to me.
That is why this modality stands alone at this point. It asks or gives you the space to feel your body, to feel you and in that you can do anything. In place of trying to do everything to be something you just be who you are and then do whatever is needed from there. Some may think it’s a play on words but the effect on you, on your body is enormous and it is not until I lived this that I had a marker of the extreme difference. As has been said it’s doesn’t matter what you do its about the quality you are in when you do it. Esoteric Yoga supports and marks that quality.
Reading ‘just be’ my body surrenders, our body’s natural way. Something that has been a focus of late has been how when we just do, do, do there is very little space in our day that we are actually with ourselves in any of the doing. Then once we get home, to many their haven, we then feel entitled to stay up and push our bodies late into the night so that we have ‘my time’. Yet that ‘my time’ is often spent checking out and is really just the same as during the day of doing. Esoteric Yoga supports connecting to our body so we have that marker of ‘that is me’, that’s how I roll, flow and move through my day… in that way we don’t get to the end of the day and need ‘my time’ because we’ve been with our body, with no perfection, with whatever we have been doing.
This brings beautifully to the fore that we are first before we do and how crazy it is that we have made doing the all.
There is simplicity in to just be.
I appreciate the power of this sentence, just a few words that opens me up to a whole new perspective of life.
Esoteric yoga allows you the time and space to connect to your breath, your body and in that process be still – and in the chaotic world we live in this is an absolute blessing.
I love taking some time in the morning just to stop and reconnect. If I don’t do it and jump straight out of bed it affects my whole day.
“I never stopped to feel how I was; it was all just Do, Do, DO!” When we choose to be with ourselves with all that we do we offer ourselves the opportunity to feel how beautiful is our being.
Taking a stop moment gives us the opportunity to feel how beautiful and magnificent our being is.
This is a lovely testimony to the simplicity that Esoteric Yoga offers – to being with our innate stillness within, rather than caught up in constantly ‘doing’ and completely unaware of our body and its movements = exhaustion.
I love how simple Esoteric yoga is; I welcome simplicity into my life.
I can swing between doing too much and then wanting to do absolutely nothing and neither feels anything like to quality of presence I have when I choose to be present and connected and open and bring that into everything I do.
We learn so much to be in the doing that it is a re-learning to just be and bring this being-ness to whatever we are doing.
Esoteric Yoga offers the reconnection to our beingness and innate nature, to just being before there is any doing.
So simple and practical Rosie. Esoteric Yoga has really helped me to focus on how I am, rather than just getting things done.
Thank you for this Rosie – the joy you feel in simply being yourself is palpable.
Sometimes my doing could be much more accurately described as running away. Keeping busy and rushed so I am disconnected with my body and not feeling.
Connecting with ourselves – and choosing to stay with ourselves – stay with our bodies – can transform our experience of living in this world. Esoteric Yoga supports with this.
Often while the body appears to be still the mind can still be running amok. Connecting to the quality of being-ness we can more readily move throughout the day in union with ourselves. Letting the body lead is key…it is a wise teacher.
When we connect to the being first, the doing comes with a quality of presence, and this feels lovely in the body.
This modality offers total connection with our bodies. It brings back and deepens our relationship to our every move. It restores religion in our everyday.
“To be or not to be”….I think your blog answers that question – to be for sure 🙂
Yes it is great to have a moment before we jump out of bed to feel ourselves and notice all the worries and to do lists that can be already running through our heads (at least mine at times) and then take a moment to let those go.
So true – it makes a big difference when we allow a littlest time in our day just to stop and connect with ourselves. We have been so conditioned to think that we have no time to just feel being ourselves and life is about getting things done when in fact we have all time in the world just to be ourselves, any moment.
When I think back to how I have experience my childhood I have to admit that indeed I was only recognized for what I did, never just for the gorgeous young boy I was. I now do understand that this has been the basis for my adult life, therefore always striving for recognition through the doing and in that never to appreciated for the truly lovely man I am.
Yes, often the first question that someone asks us is ‘what do you do’.We have a tendency to categorise one another based on our title, ‘power’ and prestige. To meet another without any of these images interfering is truly beautiful. Our worth has a very shaky foundation if based on what we do or have rather than who we are.
Indeed Victoria, people tend to any ask for the profession you are in but in that avoid to truly connect. It reminds me to when I was a child. What people asked me then was ‘what will you become when you are grown up’ and with that they only where asking what profession you feel to do in your adult life and I always answered crane driver as I loved to watch the crane drivers working in the neighborhood where I lived and that to me was true. That what I loved from watching the crane drivers was the responsibility in which they operated the crane in providing the service they where asked to deliver and I too enjoyed the gracious and delicate movements they could make with the load that was on the crane hook. So in a way I answered what I loved about life and how I would like to be in life too but I do not think that the people who asked that question to me where ready to receive this message in full.
That is beautiful Nico, children can offer us great reflections of truth so naturally. When we are free of images the truth can be more readily seen and connected to.
Somewhere along the line we stopped being Human Beings and became Human Doings. It is so lovely to return to our origins.
We go to school and high school and everything is about what mark we got, how well we behaved, what homework we did or didn’t do and what we want to do when we get older. Then we get a job and we are praised because of the skills we learn and how competently we use them. Meanwhile, slowly and painfully we loose touch with our true value and worth. In fact, for me this had long gone out the window, so much so that it was not even a consideration. Then introduce Esoteric Yoga and back through this long and windy path I walk to re-discover a quality of being that is truly valuable, well beyond any skill or monetary sense of worth.
So true to me too Vicky, after a wayward youth and part of my adulthood now I am joyful to return to that delicateness within, which I can feel now, is our natural quality and in which each and everybody is equal.
I love the concept of stopping regularly throughout the day to check in and re-establish a quality we want to then take out into the world rather than the quality being determined by it. This is a deeply empowering way to move through life and one we could all benefit from enormously, especially when ‘doing’ tends to override the ‘being’ at great cost to our bodies and what is true.
Esoteric yoga allows anybody to work on ‘programs’ that are highly relevant for our evolution and feeling what stands in the way to being able to feel us in full all the time. Very amazing resource actually.
Rosie an all too common scenario about thinking and doing as soon as we get up. That has certainly been me and I can still go into that, especially if I have a lot to complete. It’s not a great way to live, it’s very exhausting. I have also experienced a greater level of awareness through participating in Esoteric Yoga Sessions and how this level of ‘constant doing’ affects how I feel and how my body feels and then how these sessions show me that I can actually choose another way, that is not ‘constant doing’.
Thank you Rosie for sharing how to be before we then decide to do, what a difference it makes to the quality of our day when everything we do comes from our being-ness.
‘…taking moments during the day to stop what I am doing and to just BE’ allows me the grace to appreciate not what I do but the quality that I bring to what I do.
We live in a world that is based on a tick box mentality where we just do do do so much so that we value ourselves more for what we do that our actual innate qualities.
Yes Suse, unfortunately too many people are recognised for what they ‘do’ instead of who they truly are. You see this in the school system where kids are given very strong messages about the need to perform and how they have to achieve to be ‘seen’ when in truth the essence of who they are is beautiful and is not adored or confirmed enough.
Esoteric Yoga is such a stop- it allows you to feel your body and how you actually are- it is amazing what you don’t notice when you are in a rush. This modality I find is a great support to observe what is going on and to be able to make changes in my day.
I find for me I forget to check in with my quality of being because I still don’t factor me in, the “doing” and getting on with things without regard for the self has been a long standing pattern. Esoteric Yoga has really helped me to turn this around.
This is such a great point to discuss Rosie as many of as women have lived believing that who we are is defined only by what and how much we do – exhausting. Yet I have discovered that through developing and building a more honoring connection to my quality of being first, to who I am within, the quality of the things that I then choose to do have become far richer with more meaning and purpose, and with a greater sense of presence.
This is a beautiful reminder Carola, ‘the quality of the things that I then choose to do have become far richer with more meaning and purpose, and with a greater sense of presence.’
Beautiful reminder Rosie of the importance of connecting with ourselves first before we start doing, Esoteric Yoga has given me the opportunity to connect more deeply with my body and myself.
I find it amazing how hard I can work at not be with me, when being with me is the most delicious thing I’ve ever felt.
Beautiful. I love beingness – it is such an amazing way to live life, totally different from the frantic doingness we habitually fall into. Being recognises that we all have an innate essence that doesn’t change and is a consistent presence in all we do. Doing from the being is a wonderful way to live, whatever our day brings.
Great to read this today Rosie as I’ve fallen into an autopilot of looking at my emails as soon as I wake up to see what I need ‘to do’ but I can feel it is just an avoidance of feeling me first and that I have put ‘doing’ as more important than me.
What you have shared with us Rosie is huge. When we realise how simple it can be to connect with ourselves we have the key to changing the whole world. As we all learn how tender and precious we are by taking these moments of connection, we are not only supporting ourselves but offering the world a reflection of how to ‘Be’ and let go of the ‘Doing’.
We can all be such creatures of habit and it is important to recognise that some of these habits we cling to are just because they give us the illusion they are safe as they are familiar and very very comfortable. But sometimes we just need to accept a little uncomfortableness to challenge and develop ourselves and break the status quo that is actually thwarting that growth.
A beautiful reminder Rosie to take the time and just ‘be’ especially when we first wake up, building this into my morning routine makes space for the day to unfold with a different quality.
To just be is such a foreign way to live with at first as we are so used to identifying with what we do and achieving recognition through it, that at times we can get very lost when we stop and try to feel ourselves.
“… I jump out of bed and start DOING.”
I can so relate to this Rosie and it makes such a difference to not start in this autopilot of the mind dictating the body what it needs to do. Still catch myself in this though and then need to stop and start afresh.
I think everyone in the world can relate to waking up and jumping straight into autopilot – I know I can. It’s actually often when there’s something that’s a little out of sync or I’m not feeling content within myself. But I find it’s always great to check in with how I am in the morning so I know exactly where I stand for the day, and what I need to work on.
The “doing” is always coming from the mind without any consideration for the body where the “being” is the union of the mind and body together as a whole. Crazy how we are living life from just the doing (who’s idea was that?) with total disregard for the body. Esoteric Yoga is exquisite in this respect as it reconnects us back to the amazing body where stillness can be felt and lived.
Love this Rosie. What a great way to start the day instead of in autopilot mode. I find when I am connected with me and I feel the stillness within my body the day flows beautifully and there is less anxiety and worry.
I can relate Rosie, I too jumped out of bed in the morning focused on what needed to be done and all the things I had to fit in before leaving for work – stress from the word go. It does make a huge difference to my day and my energy levels if I honour myself and take a moment to reflect on my sleep, feel my body and move in a way that supports it.
Sounds very awesome Rosie – makes sense and I will definitely give it a go.
It’s a great question Rosie, “I am curious as to why I have avoided this connection, because it feels great. Why did I choose instead to Do and never stop to just BE?” It simply does not make sense the way I’ve driven myself to “do” so much in life, when it simply feels amazing to be me, to be connected to myself and put me first in everything I do. I love the opportunity Esoteric Yoga always gives me to just be, and how powerful this feels.
Beautifully said Rosie, what a huge difference it makes to be before we do. Massive in fact. In my life much has changed, one of the greatest being the tenderness with which I now do.
It’s a classic thing we all seem to go into, switching from being to doing. It wasn’t until I found Universal Medicine that I even realised I was able to just be because the activity of doing had been so constant, and it had become my normal. Esoteric Yoga sessions provided a huge stop moment for me to become aware of the endless doing I was in and begin to establish a connection with me and learn to simply be again. Feeling still in all I do is so much better than feeling racy, pressured and stressed.
Thank you for the inspiration to deepen my commitment to myself and take moments just to be Be and connect to my body particularly on waking. I love the amazing stillness I feel in Esoteric Yoga classes but find I can still get consumed in the Doing of Life to the detriment of my body and feel that the choice I make at the start of the day is key to how the rest of the day unfolds.
Esoteric yoga is a great way of becoming aware of the momentum we live with and according to. It can also be very exposing when we realise how fast we have been running our body to race the clock and keep ahead of the already fast pace we have created in present modern day society.
Simply to allow ourselves to be, is one of the most profound doorways that we can choose to go through in this life… And yet it is one of the simplest… This doorway is within every breath and we can choose to go through it at any time.
Beautiful post Rosie. “Why did I choose instead to Do and never stop to just BE? Is it because we are recognised for what we DO instead of who we ARE?” A very valid point. I love esoteric yoga as it enables me to reconnect with me and the simplicity of life.
Esoteric Yoga has and continues to change my life and the simplicity it brings is so vastly contra to the complicated world of doing that we live in. This is something I feel that hasn’t really been given it’s full credit and attention, we live in a world that is constantly pressuring us to do and if we don’t choose to be with our bodies then we are in the doing and getting a buzz off that. But in that morning moment when we wake up the body can tell us where we are at and where our previous day led us to if we choose to listen. I may have thoughts and beliefs of having had a great day when I go to bed but if I wake up with aches and pains and a buzzing then the truth of following the words fed into my mind are exposed.
I was exactly the same Rosie before Esoteric Yoga, everything around me and everyone came first, I didn’t even factor into the equation. Esoteric yoga has provided a powerful reconnection to myself, which has also meant I now have points in my day where I stop and feel how I am, how my body feels, and continue doing whatever activity I am in with that connection to me. Esoteric yoga has been fantastic for me to learn to put myself first again.
This is such a simple testimony to the power of esoteric yoga…be first with you then all you do will then be with you. It’s not so easy to just go on auto pilot anymore and as you say, Rosie, it’s so simple to stop and connect for a few minutes – no matter where we are. I too, have discovered the joy of esoteric yoga and its been such a blessing in my life to have the simple tools of how to just be with me.
If we are so busy ‘doing’ we lose touch with who we are. “Esoteric yoga allows you the time and space to connect to your body and be still.”
It is curious why we avoid moments of connection and opportunities to feel where we are at… crazy even when stopping and connecting offers us a reminder in feeling the true beauty of who we are so that we can then do whatever is needed with that as our foundation.
Thank you Rosie for your sharing, I love the early morning connection with myself, it really sets the rhythm for my day. I have been very much a doing person all my life, gaining a lot of satisfaction at the expense of my body and health. It has been a continual coming back to me, to just be and then bring that beiningness into all my doing.
Rosie I value those moments with myself first thing in the morning. Even if I have woken up out of sorts spending that time gently connecting to my body and considering how I took myself to bed brings me back to me and gives me the wisdom to make changes to the way I live. Before knowing Esoteric Yoga I would have driven myself to override that yukky heavy feeling. Conversely it is delicious to spend some moments confirming how spacious I feel after a replenishing night’s sleep.
The moment of waking up in the morning is the one when I can easily be deeply honest. It shows me exactly where I am at. I might go to bed feeling ok, but in the morning wake up being nervous or having had a straining dream. Then I know I hadn’t been ok when falling asleep. So with the honesty of the first morning breaths I can set a new angle and prupose for the day. What I need to work on, what is there to celebrate…
Thank you Felix, I love this line, to wake up and consider “….what is there to celebrate….” That is a new concept for me to wake and celebrate things, how lovely, I will certainly start doing this!
It is so simple, and could be said to be an energetic truism so to speak… And yet to actually be, indeed to be love is the most profound advice that one can pass on… The thing is that as always, one has to live something before being able to speak about it… And this to me is what Serge Benhayon embodies.
Some days are better than others as life throws things at you that you cannot anticipate. But in truth it is my disconnection with myself that seems to put a spanner in the works. When things go pear shape it is a reminder to leave behind the busyness of the mind, the urge to do and instead just be in stillness.
It is so easy to go into “what am I supposed to be doing today?” Instead of connecting to myself first. We live with that sense of urgency and anxiousness instead of supporting ourselves first and then staying with that as we do the things that present themselves to be done. There is so much more joy in the tasks we do if we bring our glorious selves along.
That society recognises us for what we do, not who we are conditions us to constantly strive for an external source of satisfaction. But slowly with truly supportive modalities such as esoteric yoga we can all reconnect back to what is innately true within. This allows our true qualities and purpose to shine and the insatiable need for external recognition will abate as there is simply no room for it in our lives.
What an inspiration Rosie, thank you for sharing your experiences and your wisdom.
“When I do things with me, I do them feeling my body, and this way I cannot ignore or over-ride how my body is feeling”.
Doing things with me, a beautiful simple message to be guided by!.
Thank you Rosie for sharing with us how you experienced yoga in your life now and how this had a beautiful impact on your life. It touched me when you shared about that you connected to you first, before you got on with the doing. It feels so powerful if you, as you are, choosing to be truthful to how you are feeling FIRST before anything, this feels real and loving. Thank you, inspiring.
Awesome simplicity in your words as always Rosie. You make it sound easy and it is! But we need to be prepared to see what gets in the way of giving ourselves that time to reconnect and that can be a little harder. Ingrained habits which cover up our not wanting to feel the lack of true value we have for ourselves, that we have been doing it for so long and it hurts! Esoteric Yoga offers a way to commit to giving that regular time to ourselves and to feel what comes up with support. I have found for me that a combination of Esoteric Yoga, Esoteric Connective Tissue exercises and a gentle exercise program has given me the space to reconnect to and feel my body everyday, each offering a slightly different way for me to surrender, feel my body and move it gently, giving me a new strong foundation in my body.
I was pondering as I was reading on how often I caught up in ‘doing’ without creating an awareness of the ‘being’ before hand. Unfortunately I can see that living up to my expectations for getting things done still leads to more ‘doing’ than ‘being’ moments but thankfully, my awareness of these differences has grown enormously in recent times. What I can do today to support myself in developing greater moments of stillness is to create little ‘stop and check-in’ moments during my day today. Thanks Rosie for reminding me of the different qualities between ‘doing’ and ‘being’.
Thank you Rosie for the gorgeous reminder to connect to me as soon as I awake up – it always makes the day flow with greater ease when I make this simple choice.
What a lovely way to start the day! In fact, you inspire me to end the day in the same way. There is such a difference to the quality of sleep if I start to rest from being instead of doing 1000 things up until the last minute.
A perfect blog to start my day. This morning I woke up and could have jumped out of bed and raced through my morning, but I felt tender and quite fragile when I actually stopped. My day will need to be very different to the one I could have had if I had jumped out of bed and not stopped to feel it first.
Being very still in esoteric yoga is very revealing. Every niggling little ache or pain that you have been avoiding is un-ignorable. It is liberating just to feel everything and be still with it. To feel the quality of presence and stillness, realize it has not been in my day-to-day life, and that it could be. What I learn from reading this blog of Rosie’s is that I can do what I have to do and not compromise the quality of my presence.
‘When I do things with me, I do them feeling my body, and this way I cannot ignore or over-ride how my body is feeling.’ This is absolute gold. It’s vital not to miss or dismiss what the body is constantly communicating to us because by keeping the channel open to feeling how the body is in any given moment, we can begin to live by honouring the body more, respecting it and heeding it. It’s this commitment to responsiveness that can become the primary source of support for our health, wellbeing and vitality. When we are closed off to the body’s signals, that’s the beginning of the end.
Thank you for this reminder Cathy that the body is constantly communicating how it wants to BE with us and that its way is never too late or inconvenient to follow. Having recently become more aware of just how horrible it feels to do anything without being me first is not pleasant, but discounting my being and going into a mind that wants to numb away from the pain does not solve anything and the bodies messages continue either way.
The way you wake up now feels beautiful Rosie and is just how you would treat a small child. Ask them how they are and how they are feeling. We absolutely deserve this tender care and space as adults too.
Beautiful said Joseph Barker, we indeed deserve tender care, we can give ourselves the same care we would love to give a baby. We are no different. A beautiful wake up – to understand that we cannot continue in this hard and truth-less way.
I can so relate to the waking up and go straight into DO-ing. I find that just a little moment of being simply with me is enough to have a completely different day than when I rush out of bed and go straight into doing. Even though I know this I still don’t do it everyday! So interesting to realise and i am going to allow myself to be even more. Thank you Rosie.
Thank you Rosie. The way you are with it feels incredible and super light. I love it.
Thank you Rosie for a great blog, I have been in the doing, doing for the past 60 yrs, and it has taken sometime to bring me back to the being, which I loose now and again. It is beautiful to wake up in the morning and take to time to just be with my body and feel all there is to feel, and start my day with me.
The power of just being and not feeling that we have to prove, try or achieve anything is ginormormous! It is worlds apart from living with the feeling of a need to constantly DO things.
I enjoy feeling me too before I get out of bed in the morning. It is a great marker for the day and when I am away from “me” during the day I can feel quite quickly what has happened and bring myself back.
Great question Rosie – ‘Is it because we are recognised for what we DO instead of who we ARE?’ As I constantly experience that society does indeed operate on the basis of recognition and validation of what we DO first over who we ARE. And before I had developed my connection to knowing who I truly am I was constantly driving myself to be good, better and best at what I did regardless of how I and my body was truly feeling – which was exhausted really. Now not only do I enjoy what I am doing because I am connected to and honour me first but I also bring a far more loving and truthful quality to what I do because I am bringing all of me.
You hit the nail right there Carola; doing comes from the need to be recognized. Often the only way we know ourselves is through what we do, it becomes our identity. Whenever I do something so that another will notice me, it feels empty and never completes, because there was very little of my genuine quality in it.
This is gold Rosie, being before doing. How important and very lovely too, to be with ourselves with what we are doing. I used to always just do things without connecting to me, not aware I could do that! With the support of the teachings as presented by Serge Benhayon I have also been deeply inspired to connect with myself first and to do things in connection with myself. It is just so much more fun. Even when I am short in time I find it creates space to do things with me instead of checking out and ‘just doing it’ without considering myself.
Rosie, you raise a great observation, how easy it is when we are not with ourselves to jump straight out of bed into the doingness of the day, without taking a moment to connect to ourselves. I have found that by connecting to how I feel in the morning has a great bearing on what or how I choose to do something during the day.
I agree Rosie the esoteric yoga has also helped me connect to my body and allowed me to feel what’s really going on
This is a great sharing about the simplicity of yoga in daily life. We tend to compartmentalize life and live like in this module box without living life as a whole. I used to do yoga as an exercise and to compensate my stressful and unhealthy lifestyle until I learned with Universal Medicine that Yoga is a way of living, that yoga is my inner connection to the stillness inside me and is the expression of the union I live in every moment. It is not something I do, but how I am in live – in union.
Yes, It brings a whole different understanding rachelandras. Yoga doesn’t finish after the session ends it is something to feel and be within ourselves in our presence throughout the day.
Throughout the ages there have always been signposts for humanity, pointing out that if we can simply be, to feel the connection through ourselves through stillness, we will connect with that inside which nurtures and sustains us, and in itself guides us to that part of us wherein lies our true selves. That for most people they are still very intent of doing… Is the ongoing enigma, and that enigma remains until we simply connect with stillness.
Universal Medicine, and the people associated with it, offer workshops that are always amazing, really empowering and life changing. Why is so? Because they come and are taught from the authority of a lived experience, hence the absolute knowing of the difference what they offer makes.
Thank you Rosie, you have shared the paradox of doing vs being beautifully and highlighted just how vital and integral reconnecting back to our body is to claiming and expressing our beingness. Awesome blog.
The ‘doing’ versus the ‘being’ this is such a profound way to look at ourselves. I recall some years ago I didn’t even have a sense of my being, i was in a workshop with Universal Medicine and was asked to write down all the things i ‘do’, then what are the qualities of my ‘being’. I could write a whole list of what i ‘do’, but what it came to writing my being i was stumped. How revealing was that!!!! I have since been connecting more as you so beautifully shared with connecting with my being. I loved your suggestion to lay in bed before you jump out to the ‘doing’ for the day and connect to that. Feels like a much more loving way to begin the day…..thank you.
I love what you are sharing here raegankcairney. Writing down what we do vs the qualities of our being is actually an exercise that we could and should repeat often as we continue to evolve and redevelop our innate qualities. More importantly, this practice would nourish our appreciation of our qualities so they can only further blossom and flourish.
I have noticed when I get caught in the doing, I lose the quality in what I am doing, and I am also lost, when I bring in my quality first I produce some great work, and I am still with myself.
I have noticed that there is a world of difference between the times when I jump at an action simply thinking about getting it done and the end result i.e. I am solely focused on ‘doing’, to when in contrast I am aware of a deep connection with myself and approach the action in that quality i.e. bring my ‘being’ to the ‘doing’. Esoteric Yoga is a great support in helping us feel and recognize this difference.
Yes, I too begin my day feeling me and my body as it is very supporting and sets me up for the day. This way of being is very different to how I used to be, where I would automatically go into my head as soon as I opened my eyes and plan my day with what needed to be done. I am also finding it vital to have moments in my day where I check in with how I am feeling and by doing so I have more energy at the end of the day.
I totally agree Caroline, beginning the day with conscious presence and feeling my body is a much more loving way to be with me than to start organising the to-do list as soon as my eyes are open.
Hi Rosie, Yes ‘doing’ is considered normal and yet if we observe our quality when in doing its not so hot. Connecting and being and bringing that into what we do brings a totally different and beautiful quality. Thanks for the reminder to take stop moments during the day to appreciate the beauty of being.
I am finding that my body definitely champions ‘Being’ over ‘Doing’. I am noticing more and more that when I forget the stop moments and lose myself in the doing, my body seems to suffer – I get achy and my movements lose their flow and become laboured. On those days, usually after several hours at the office, it is when I start walking home, when I am no longer caught in the seduction of the targets, the roles or the dramas and before I reach the mayhem of the rush hour travel, when it is just me and my body walking, that my body lets me know all is not well and I realize that once more I was caught in the doing.
Rosie we are, as a society consumed with doing. We get our satisfaction from the amount that we get done. If we are able to tick lots of our to do list then we feel happy about it. It is only recently that I have been really feeling that it is not the amount that we get done but the quality that we do things in that is paramount. The energetic quality of the things that we do is not of known importance to our society at the moment but in time it will become the most important thing. When this happens we shall all be aware of how we do things rather than the sheer amount that we get done.
Well said Alexis – spot on! And in this, I must include myself as one of those who has been consumed by ‘doing’ and getting things done…. & aside for not doing a lot for my self-worth (other than cementing being measured by my achievements), it’s hugely exhausting and stressful! I am learning more to focus first on the quality of my doing, which has only been able to develop by reconnecting more to ‘being’… I’m being amazingly surprised how much I can then ‘do’ as a result of ‘being’ first!
The “doing” is like an addiction, it can give an adrenaline rush even and it’s a perfect antidote to feeling anything. If there is pain to be felt or something upsetting us, then dedicating ones day to “doing” seems to be the perfect way to escape feeling anything. Focusing on the “doing” is really just another way to say we are focusing on being disconnected to ourselves.
Esoteric yoga has truly transformed the ideals and beliefs I had about yoga and the way that I used do it, which was all about the doing. At the beginning I found that lying still and feeling my body as offered by esoteric yoga very challenging, but as I chose to keep coming back to it and allow myself to feel, I have become aware of the exquisite stillness and harmony within myself.
I feel it is deeply ingrained in my behaviour as well to get caught into the doing, and taking a moment to stop and just be is something I need to consciously choose to do. Your sharing is a great reminder for me. Thank you, Rosie.
I didn’t truly understand what ‘connecting to my body’ or ‘just being’ meant until I attended my first Esoteric Yoga session. It is such a beautiful modality that gives me space to feel my divine stillness, as well as all the ‘doing’ and ‘thinking’ that takes me away from that if I allow it to.
I too experience the Esoteric Yoga as a blessing Rosie Bason. The profound delicateness of my body that is presented in these sessions do support me enormously in establishing a true connection with it. And as you say Rosie, it is so easy to wake up and go straight into the doing, but waking up in a different way, preserving precious time to truly connect to my body and just feel how I am makes such a difference in how the rest of my day will be and builds on the re-establishment of a true relationship with my body.
I agree with you Rosie, Esoteric Yoga is priceless, just because of the awareness it brings of oneself and in this others too, which is invaluable. It brings a whole new dimension to how we connect and relate to our body, and helps reverse the default position so many of us have in doing and being busy, exhausting ourselves to be recognised, and into the steadiness, confidence of being – where we can enjoy more clarity and acceptance of the greatness we naturally and innately are. With absolutely zero to prove.
Thanks Rosie , its so easy to get lost in thought and let it lead you down the garden path and yet all we need do is check in and just be present in our body and voila, I am found.
I love this Rosie, just taking even a few moments to check and make sure that we are still present when we are doing things! It is so easy to get taken away with being busy, and having a few times during the day just to stop, breathe and make sure we are still connected is a wonderful practice.
Rosie I love your blog especially this: “It hasn’t been an easy task, as I feel that I am a creature of habit!” Yes I agree I am also such a creature and because of that I love the esoteric yoga because this is the best medicine against it.
I must admit that I started my day with a head full of things to do. I’m always looking at the time and calculating how much I have left and what I can achieve in the minutes available. Reading your blog Rosie has changed my focus to ‘being’ rather than just ‘doing.’ I’m going to try and catch myself before I get out of bed tomorrow morning : )
Rosie, thank you for sharing the beautiful shift you have experienced. To BE first and then DO. It certainly changes the whole day.
This is a great reminder to “connect” to ourselves and it does not take long to do! Thank you Rosie for writing this.
Ahhh this is great Rosie. Where in the world are we encouraged just to be, BUT with the great support from Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine many of us are now giving ourselves those opportunities to stop, just as you describe and just BE. I love waking up now too and allowing myself to get up when my whole body feels ready, rather than making a mad dash.
Lovely Rosie, BE-ing with myself before I go into ‘doing’ completely changes the quality I take into ‘doing’. I love how Esoteric Yoga supports the re- connection and relationship with our bodies.
Thank you Rosie. Its so easy to get caught up in the ‘doing’ when we first wake up so this is a great reminder that it doesn’t take long to just ‘be’ with ourselves before we start our day and everything after that, we know it is done with us ‘being’ ourselves.
I agree with you Tim, to start our day with the foundation of beingness, is a huge support for our day ahead.
Rosie it’s fantastic to hear how you reconnect with yourself now. This really rang true for me at this moment “because we are recognised for what we DO instead of who we ARE?” Yes this is something that would keep me stuck in the doing many times, but I am extremely grateful for the new emergence of self through my continual practise of re-connection. I may slip up at times but that’s ok, always learning. Thank you for the reminder.
I find that by taking the time before I rise every morning to come back to me, and just Be, is a great foundation from which to start my day from. I enjoyed your article Rosie, thank you.
Great reminder in the power and simplicity of taking the time to connect and just be with ourselves. Awesome.
Ah yes, me too Rosie. I have an autopilot that pushes the ‘me’ out of the way and is in such a rush to fly this plane. Funny thing is, for all that movement, we never have liftoff, we only ever have shut down. Or more hysterically, we have liftoff with no passengers on board! So yes, esoteric yoga is also helping me to claim back the ‘me’ I had left behind. Feels good.
Love the truth in your humour Liane! 🙂
How lovely to start the day with just BEing then to get up and take this to the things that need to be done. Thank you Rosie.
It is really a plaque – the do-do-do-plague. It is time to get infected by love and the just-being-who-we-are-virus that will cure us from the plague.
Thanks Rosie. I can remember when I first attended a presentation by Serge Benhayon and he said “Just be” I was seriously frustrated and had no idea what he was asking me ‘to do’! I had perfected the art of doing and getting things done and rather prided myself on it. When I first attended Esoteric Yoga sessions my body hurt everywhere and I struggled to be still and stay with me. Gradually with practice I realized that my body no longer hurt and the stillness and being with me was truly wonderful. Esoteric Yoga is a great way to be.
Rosie its so true – when “being” feels so great why do I avoid it?! I know from recent Esoteric Yoga classes how great it feels to stop the constant mind chatter and doing – yet still find that I get caught up in the day instead of staying with what feels so great. So i’m also considering why the pull to “DO” instead of to “BE” is so strong.
Such a great, simple reminder of how we can be in our day.
“It doesn’t take long in the morning just to BE, and then I can get up and do all the things that need to be done; but instead of doing them on autopilot, I am doing them with me.” – So true Rosie and it is much more enjoyable to spend the day this way.
With so much activity and rushing around everywhere, this reminder is priceless. We can run around in autopilot, or we can take a few minutes to connect and take great quality forward into our day. And I find the more we take care in this way the easier and more instantaneous it becomes.
Thank you Rosie, for the timely reminder on the importance of taking the time, to just be.
Giving myself a moment to check in with how I’m feeling changes the way in which I do things, for the better I find, and often actually helps me do more!
I loved reading this Rosie, I have been ‘a doer” all my life and even now I can feel how easy it is to slip into this and let my mind race ahead if i don’t stop and feel and just be. It only takes a few minutes but it can change my whole day.
It is so easy to slip into those old familiar ways of doing things Alison, but what I have found helpful is finding ways to be more present in everything I do, and when I find myself falling into “doing mode” and my doing mode is usually a racy doing… then I treat myself like a baby or a puppy that is learning, and I stop and start again. Potty training for babies can take a long time and you have to be patient. It is the same when breaking old well established patterns of behaviour as adults.
“I treat myself like a baby or a puppy that is learning, and I stop and start again.” Rosie this is such a tender, loving and understanding way of working with ourself as we move away from the habitual ‘focus-on-the-doing-mode’ and build our consistency of ‘being’ first and foremost and then take that into whatever we do. I know from experience getting frustrated with myself is counter productive – being prepared that it “can take a long time and you have to be patient” sounds very wise and very loving.
Thank you Rosie and Alison, I agree, Esoteric Yoga as presented by Serge Benhayon is life changing, and in just 3 minutes.
I have noticed how much more space, possibility and flow there is when I have my fullness with me in an activity, yet when I lose that and only focus on the ‘doing’ and the ‘objectives’, then time is short, there is a lot of trying and it gets worse and worse. At this stage although my mind says there is not enough time, it is well worth taking 3 minutes to get ‘me’ back and go again with my fullness. Thank you for the lovely prompt.
Thank you Rosie such a short simple blog jam packed with wisdom!
I used to have this thought running in my head that if I felt something different than what my head was telling me I felt that would change everything and then came in fear of the unknown. But that is simply not true because when I feel my body what I feel is not unknown but very clear and it feels natural to feel.
Well said Elizabeth. I totally agree. It is a great gift to humanity. It allows us to see where we are at and also allows us to deepen that awareness and honesty with ourselves allowing for a greater appreciation and love for ourselves. Lovely blog Rosie, thank you.
Great blog Rosie, I find Esotheric Yoga a true gift from Heaven and a great reflection of how loving I am with myself.
I have just taken 3 minutes to re-read my own blog and I am inspired to write a new one to share the changes that have happened since I have committed to Being rather than Doing and since I have attended a few more esoteric yoga courses. New blog on its way!
I’ve just taken a few minutes to re-read this awesome blog too Rosie. Looking forward to the next instalment!
Today I considered “what quality have I been living my life recently?” I realised I experience real quality when I am fully present with myself – I am truly present in my life and how glorious that feels.
How absurd – it is so easy to have this experience – even if I lose it, all I need do is notice it, acknowledge it, take responsibility and the experience is back! Yet I have millions of habits to take me away from that: thinking about other things, bringing in expectations & beliefs, judge myself if I don’t feel right, get caught in other people’s dramas…….
Just 3 minutes as you say, to feel, to just BE and then we can get up and still do all the stuff we were going to do – but this time – being present with it all. Bringing REAL QUALITY to our everyday life.
Dear Rosie, I know esoteric yoga for a few years now and realized how easy I still get caught into my doing-modus. Every day. A bit too much for my taste.. so thank you for sharing and reminding me.
I loved reading this so much Rosie. Such a timely nudge to help me see the to-do list I am running with all the time and increased my awareness of how I think the more I achieve in my day the better the person I will be. Absolutely recognition of what I do. But who’s looking and checking? What a set-up to have for oneself to keep me on the hamster-wheel of doing. And how amazing does it feel when that punishing to-do list dissipates? So much space arrives, a massive weight feels to go, so much less exhausting, a relief and the opportunity to feel me underneath it all. And incredibly, more gets done!
Yes who really is that task master directing you??
I have come to realise that I can be the worst and have the most unrealistic high standards for myself.. and all I have to do is let go of those ideals and beliefs and just let myself be.
Thank you Rosie for expressing this so simply yet so clearly. I am going to print this and share with my staff who at this time of year forget who they are and are only in the ‘doing’ – we always remind our staff to rest and look after themselves more.
Retail is full on at Christmas but your gentle reminder of stopping to just be is great and we all need that space in our daily life. Thanks and love, Andrew.
I only just read your response Andrew just a few years later, and I thought, wouldn’t it be great if all employers were like you and offered this to their staff… just giving them permission to stop is great as it will have an effect on how they work for the rest of the day.
This is great Andrew. What a caring and thoughtful boss you are. Its true that sometimes we don’t give ourselves permission to stop. During the busy Christmas period, your staff must really appreciate your gentle reminder to rest and look after themselves more.
I totally relate to the quality of being rather than the quality of doing….and the way esoteric yoga, assists with this exploration…
The beauty of returning to ‘being’ is felt throughout your post Rosie. So simple and honouring of yourself – a joy to read. Thank-you.
Thanks for the ‘3-minute’ reminder Rosie.
I agree rodharvey. If we can’t find 3 minutes in a day at least once to stop and reconnect to ourselves in the 1440minutes that are available everyday, then we need seriously need to look at how we are ‘running’ our day. Ouch.
Thanks for the simplicity expressed in this, it’s a great reminder of how to just be.
I too have found esoteric yoga to be a wonderful tool to help me get in touch with me and how my body feels, Rosie. I love how your writing clearly explains the difference between doing things on ‘autopilot’ and getting on with one’s day while staying aware of how your body feels in each and every moment. That has really helped me see what my old habits were doing to me and my body and created a HUGE awareness that being gentle makes a difference in everything I do.
Awesome Rosie, I also had a similar experience to you when I chose to start to become aware of how I started my day, I became aware of how I had 100’s of thoughts going through my head before my foot had even reached the floor to embark on my day and this all occurred in a split second of waking, ouch, whiplash…
IN-JOY your ability to be, while you go about your day…
Thank you Rosie for the time to reflect on this, it is so easy for me do get caught up in the doing.
Great article Rosie. As what we do has been made to be so significant in our lives from a very early age I find that I am constantly being aware of how I am being and gradually letting go of everything I had become attached to about what I do. I really appreciate that Universal Medicine has presented this as who I am and how I am being, that is, the quality of me is definitely worth attention and consideration.
Thank you Rosie…Your posting is so simple and real. It clearly conveys the simplicity of the Eso Yoga and the loveliness that is felt when we simply stop, feel and reconnect. As you have shared, that you stop for 3 mins in the morning to feel your body and reconnect…3 mins is not long yet the benefit is huge, allowing you to go about your morning as You and not in the autopilot version of you.
I can relate to the uneasiness of realising just how much we are in automatic drive…and also the beauty that the stillness brings. I can say without a blink of an eyelid that it is well worth feeling that uneasiness to expose it and allow the beauty of the stillness to Be, as it is who we naturally are!
Hi Rosie, thank you for the reminder. I have had exactly the same experience as you and for some years have been aware of what you write and been choosing to take those moment to re-connect to myself as you have described.
I find that the connected moments are gradually increasing and yet I still often experience that doing energy in myself – it is amazing how ingrained it is.
I have found that the more that I am able to connect to myself and choose to be present, the more energy I have and the more I actually do – but that doing has a completely different quality.