Sow a seed and it will take a few days, months or even years before it germinates, grows and bears fruits. Seasons change slowly. Mountains form over centuries. Look everywhere around in nature and all the good happens slowly.
Shift focus to our lives…it’s exactly the opposite. Faster cars, faster music, faster cooking, faster shopping, faster recovery…. Fast has become our way of life. We expect everything to move & happen quickly. Deserving or not, we want it. At the touch of a button the master in out head wants a response. Technology has spoilt us and if we continue to give in we will be miserable.
The unfortunate reality is that mind cannot distinguish, it is conditioned by habit. Now it will be in no mood to have patience. We want to lose weight fast, we want to get into an asana fast, we want all the benefits of our work NOW.
Picture this…eating slowly, enjoying the meal morsel by morsel…enjoying the sea breeze while walking across a beach…holding our partners hand, looking into each other’s eyes and feeling the moment…slow dancing, slow music everything starts connecting you with the moment. And life is that…living the moment.
The practice of Yoga connects you with your natural pace. There is no way you can get into the headstand the very first day, so far no such pill has been discovered. We have no other choice than to be slow & patient. We have to work every day making progress slowly and steadily. It may take days, months and even years…we have to be ready to deserve it. When we devote time to our Yoga practice and work on each asana patiently we start changing our habit…we now work slowly and steadily getting us the right results. Our mind gives in to the new habit. We start understanding the world in its natural pace. The short circuit in our mind that makes us act without thinking is broken, we start living, we start thinking, we start acting rather than reacting.
Life starts getting beautiful and this beauty will reflect in your face, actions and conduct. Slow is the way and the only way of life. Live it.
Namaste,
Kamal Maliramani
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