Space and Time
Between any stimulus and our brain there is a space.
A place time does not exist. A moment.
A doorway some might say. A threshold.
Every second new opportunity.
Yoga is literally the science of life.
A practice that allows this space to be known.
It needs space to give space.
In his book, A Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl says “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is the power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. “
Frankl goes on to carry this theme of his book, when you have a “why”, you can bear any “how”. Praising how strong and wise the human spirit is. He suggests 3 ways to cultivate meaning and purpose in ones life.
creative work
experience something fully and completely
love someone fully and completely
As one engages these lower chakras (root, sacral, solar) energy is able to move freely throufgh the body and a new attitude begins to emerge.
Like the kundalini serpent lying dormant in your life. It begins to rise up the spine.
A life without meaning isn’t much of a life at all.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way
After my stroke, my entire life as I knew it was gone. Just swept away. It took me almost 7 years to finish my college degree and only a split second to make it worthless to me.
The only thing I had left was my self, my true self.
Everything else had been stripped away.
Frankl calls it your “why.”
I say it’s your connection to something bigger than yourself.
Your true divine nature, the part of you not affected by space or time.
Isvara Pranidhana
Letting go of the life we once has to welcome in new space.