It doesn't matter where you enter the stream...-Abraham-Hicks
If
everything that you could possibly want is waiting for you downstream,
it doesn't matter where you get into the river, as long as you allow
yourself to go with the flow. That's the gist of the message relayed in
Esther & Jerry Hicks' DVD program "Think and Get Slim".
I bought the video after previewing an excerpt
because it spoke to so many of our body, health and life issues. We
tend to think that once we reach our ideal weight, master this or that
sport or find the perfect mate, then we'll be happy. But the message
is, 'You have to make peace with where you are, in every area of your
life because your condemning of it (whatever the subject area) holds
you there.'
That's like carrying your canoe until you get all
the way downstream, all the while describing everything you detest
about carrying your canoe. Such an unhappy journey has got to deplete
the joy of arriving.
That brings me to the yogic quality of
Santosa, or contentment. Wherever we are in our postures or practice,
we should be turned downstream. We are where we are and it's all right.
The minute we accuse our bodies or our efforts as being less than and
push our bodies into submission, we turn upstream. We could go through
the same actions but softly invite our bodies to go deeper into a pose
and we'd be moving in an entirely different direction. Downstream.
Where everything we could possibly want, is waiting.
Think and Get Slim, Natural Weight Loss. (Note: I receive no commissions from your orders).