Changes

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As we come into another season, we can see the physical changes, a sign of the year moving on to yet another beautiful time of year in nature. But I can’t help but feel, like many of you I’m sure, that there seems to feel like a weight pulling + holding us back. We keep mustering up the strength to keep on going through 2020, hoping that as we move on into the later part of the year, symbolising us finally getting out of this mess, but unfortunately, COVID isn’t quite letting up. Like many, I would’ve thought when we came into spring full of lockdown + a summer full of masks, socially distancing + restrictions, that autumn would be full of normality, a world finally leaving behind COVID.

So what do we do, when we can FEEL the change in the seasons but feeling like we’re not moving with the seasonal change? How do we keep lifting ourselves up through change?

Surrender.
Accept.

Change is a natural part of life. As shown through the beautiful seasons. And although we feel like we’re not changing + growing right now, we totally are. There’s always a lesson to be learnt. So mine right now is surrender + acceptance -  in yoga, we call it ishvara pranidhana.

There are days when I try to make sense of the world. But it just leaves my head feeling fuzzy. So I come back to the practice + reminder of ishvara pranidhana + try to focus my energy on the things that I can control.

On the things that are changing so beautifully, no matter what is happening in the world right now, like the beauty of the seasons. Like the beauty, of autumn.