I have a very full life. I am a mother, partner, and a daughter. I live with my husband, two teenagers, a dog and two cats. Enough said. I decided I needed some time for myself.
I recently reintroduced myself to yoga which I take at my local community centre. I have been taking it religiously twice a week for two months now. Something very special started to happen besides the calming effect that yoga has for me. I started to feel new space, space between my ribs, and along my muscles, and especially in my mind. I started to think about all aspects of space and how it affects us. As a society I notice the tendency is to be unapproachable, closed off and indifferent. It seems somewhat difficult to engage people in conversations or to connect. In today's world, our teenagers, have cell phones, ear buds, Ipods and they graduate to adults who have blackberries and bluetooths. We text and instant message each other in the same building. We tweet instead of speak. All of these tools we have to communicate instantly are great for the sake of progress, but at what cost? It takes away your ability to connect at a deeper level spiritually and consciously with everyone including yourself. It creates the opposite of space - anti space. It creates, chatter and distractions. It closes you off to the possibility - endless possibilities to connect with people, nature and spirit. We have an army of citizens closed off, unattached and unconnected. Space can give you the opportunity for beautiful things to happen, if you let it. If you are open to creating space wherever you can, just see and observe what happens. Whether you create space to have conversation with a stranger, or create space in your body or mind, just notice what happens when you give your self a chance. Try it out and let me know what you notice.
Great blog entry, Tina and I'm glad that you've rediscovered yoga and the space between.
ReplyDeleteTo take your point in one direction, I believe that people are quite aware of their space and the spacial "boundaries" (important word these days) that exist between themselves and others in this world. What has changed, however, is that people are no longer willing to share this space. You say that "space can give you the opportunity for beautiful things to happen". People, by and large, nowadays believe that they are the most beautiful and important thing on the planet and what better way to faciliate that psyco-façade than by engaging people solely in the digital world where truths are much harder to express.
The explosive growth in the self-help market that you and I know too much about is simply the final result a process that's collectively been underway now for several decades:
First, we lost our faith in God. Then, we lost faith in government. Finally, we're losing faith in ourselves. Next: the end.