It Is Good to Have Clear Boundaries

Santa Fe, NM, 10/25/19

Santa Fe, NM, 10/25/19
I found myself thinking about the blessing of being able to ask this question and have a multiple answers: what do you do when your healing place/activity is temporarily or permanently no longer healthy?
I asked this question of myself today because the poor air quality from the wildfires is not good for me, and it is not feeling good to be at the Youth Garden for the full morning. I’ve been grateful before for the panoply of practices—study, meditation (sitting and walking), breath work, asana and other movement, etc., when I have been sick or injured.

Rising from post-morning meditation savasana. Have you been practicing?

Recognizing what a privilege it is to be able to do so, I daily educate myself about what is happening outside the walls of my house and ask myself is how can I best increase safety, health, and joy for all and not deplete my health. The answer is changing and expanding in response to the growing horrors and bravery. I am doing more of the practices to increase my capacity to stay engaged in the most healthful and mindful ways.
I wish for a world in balance, for equipoise. BTW, one of the meanings of samadhi, a key component of yoga practic Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, is equipoise.

I am led to think of the stories of dyads and binaries, triads and trios, pentacles, and the divisible and indivisible.

Check out this link, and then, if it is something you want and care about for yourself and others, please call and/or write your elected officials. It’s not single payor (that’s what I believe would be best), but we should at least be able to offer something.