October 2021Tidbits
ASANA (POSTURE)
How to do Purottanasana — Benefits & Yoga Pose Tutorial
Click on https://adventureyogaonline.com/purvottanasana/
Health
Why Your Out-Breath is Connected to Your Well-Being
What is the vagus nerve, and how does it connect to our breathing and emotions? Learn the science around this key messenger of the nervous system.
https://www.mindful.org/why-your-breath-is-connected-to-your-well-being/
Wise Action
The next time you feel a negative emotion like anxiety or fear or anger, notice what happens next. How long do you stay in the grip of that contracted state of mind? How long is it useful to feel this emotion when responding to whatever challenge has appeared in your life? It’s not that the goal is to never feel these emotions again . They’re signals that something is worth paying attention to, but how long must we let the alarm bells ring? With mindfulness you see that these emotions begin to evaporate the moment you notice them and then you can respond to whatever is happening in the world without being miserable.
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/SM2FD1D85FF
Quote
“To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something.” ` Lao Tzu (dates unknown) - Chinese Philosopher
Story
In an ancient Buddhist story, the Buddha’s faithful attendant, Ananda, asked about the importance of having wholesome companions. Ananda asked the Buddha whether having noble friends and companions wasn’t half of the holy life. The Buddha replied: “Do not say so, Ananda. Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.” (SN 45.2, Bhikkhu Bodhi)
https://buddhasadvice.wordpress.com/friendships/
Poem
She Let Go
by Safire Rose
She let go.
She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go.
She let go of the fear.
She let go of the judgments.
She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head.
She let go of the committee of indecision within her.
She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons.
Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, she just let go.
She didn’t ask anyone for advice.
She didn’t read a book on how to let go.
She didn’t search the scriptures.
She just let go.
She let go of all of the memories that held her back.
She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.
She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right.
She didn’t promise to let go.
She didn’t journal about it.
She didn’t write the projected date in her Day-Timer.
She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper.
She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.
She just let go.
She didn’t analyze whether she should let go.
She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter.
She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment.
She didn’t call the prayer line.
She didn’t utter one word.
She just let go.
No one was around when it happened.
There was no applause or congratulations.
No one thanked her or praised her.
No one noticed a thing.
Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go.
There was no effort.
There was no struggle.
It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad.
It was what it was, and it is just that.
In the space of letting go, she let it all be.
A small smile came over her face.
A light breeze blew through her.
And the sun and the moon shone forevermore…