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| January 17, 2011
Volume V Issue 1.3 |
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The other day I was in a yoga class taught by Pam Maldenado at Renew in Petaluma. I like Pam's classes because they are mindful. She has a really beautiful voice and the room echoes and so, when she enunciates her words ever so, they sort of reverberate. Many great ideas have
come to me sitting on my mat in her class, her words in my ear.
Anyway, while we are breathing in and out very slowly and taking in our present moment linking conscious movement and breath, she talks about being in the Now. As in, be here in breath, be here in body, be here in spirit.
And then she mentions a quote by Baron Baptiste who is a yoga teacher, that she heard in one of his classes:
"When you're in the now, you will know the how".
I thought, how true. And wanted to say more about it.
This week: On the 'How'
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"When you're in the Now, you will know the How" ~ Baron Baptiste ~
Abraham-Hicks talks about it, too. But they call it "the next logical step".
We often think we have to know how to do something before we start doing it. We scheme up these amazing ideas with the end goal in mind.
And then we stop before we even begin.
We don't know how.
How are we going to get that book published, that business started, that income generated, that new project off the ground? Just how is that supposed to happen?
We are here. We want to be there. Where is the road map?
And yet, from my experience, it never comes all at once.
Jack Canfield mentions something similar in the video The Secret. He talks about how our car's head lights only illuminate enough of the road that we can see a distance of a few hundred feet. And yet, still, we can drive from Los Angeles, to New York City completely in the dark only to see our trip unfold before us two hundred feet at a time.
Sometimes that is how it goes. It is one foot in front of the other. Living, being, doing in the now, and then being informed about what is to come.
A couple weeks ago, I was talking to someone I consider a spiritual teacher. She is humble and wise and loving and I was asking her from her mature place of understanding:
"So then, what is our purpose? How are we supposed to find our purpose if we don't look for it?"
It's been an age old question for me, because I had visions even as a child. I was here to do something.
But what? And How?
And if I stopped asking, stopped being driven to find out, how would it ever get revealed to me? How would I find out?
This very wise, spiritual teacher, asked me the counter question.
What if I just stopped asking?
She told me to draw a frame on a blank piece of paper with nothing inside. She said, "consider this blank canvas a portrait of Sonya".
What?!
"with no where to get to and nothing to have to do".
What?!
"where nothing was predicated on anything else except to live her life as it unfolded in front of her"
What?! But where was the purpose and meaning in that?
Where was it not, she asked?
Then, how do I know what to do next? How would I fulfill my destiny if I stopped striving to find out?
By breathing in and out, she said. Listening to your intuition. Trusting yourself.
What?!
But I got what she was saying, although it was too simple for my mind to wrap itself around:
Rather than declaring that something "should" be, instead, discover what is, and then discover what is next.
And then I picked up Michael Beckwith's book "Spiritual Liberation" where he talks about the same thing. That just like within the acorn, there is the Oak Tree with all the fixings needed to come to maturation, so is there within each of us a prototype that knows its own fulfillment.
In other words, it doesn't happen outside of ourselves. There is no secret society that holds the answer. There is no "there" there.
It is here, in the quiet, in the blank space when we stop the "should's" or the "have to's" or the need to figure it out, the need to know "how".
We come up to the cross roads and we look both ways. And then we ask ourselves, "okay, which way next?"
And we know.
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