During one of my recent yoga
sessions I was instructed to take deep breaths and to think of the many thoughts arising in my inner self. Slowly I was told to remove all unwanted thoughts
which I felt don’t deserve to be in me and to keep a single thought which seems
to be my priority for the time being. And that’s what I did with all the
obedience of a disciplined student I maintained that thought in me for a few
minutes. But suddenly to my surprise I was instructed to even remove that very
single thought. All of a sudden a sense
of vacuum engulfed me and I was left with none but myself. I was told to
concentrate only on myself and my body. Reluctantly though, I tried to do as
instructed and I got submerged into my existence in the form of my body. The mindless
body seemed nothing but a lump of matter sans all thoughts of our loved once. It’s so very difficult not to think of the
people whom we love so much and the various thoughts that we are surrounded
with.
It’s a dread to even visualize
ourselves without a mind and the various emotions that we are made up off.
Though the day’s sessions went pretty easy and refreshing I was impatient to
have my thoughts running back into me. It’s not that easy not to think of the people
whom we care so much and love so much and for whom we matter the most. But sometimes emotions do drain out the energy
in you and if it is so then why at all these emotions and attachments were
embedded in us? A good friend of mine always used to say that Expectations
reduce Joy. But then it’s these expectations that make us live. It is these
very expectations that allow us to be who we are and to make us see others as
part of ourselves. Expectations don’t reduce joy but it gives you hope to live
another day with people whom you love so much because it’s a dread to loose any
of them.
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