Resting Within
Resting Within - Moving Towards Stillness.
X - The Wheel of Fortune
“The Wheel turns. You reside at center, in stillness, as the unmoved mover.” Pamela Eakins phD, Tarot of the Spirit; Weiser Books, Boston, 1992
My personal energy challenge for the year 2023 is “X - The Wheel of Fortune”. Many of my yoga students (past and present day) and my family have heard me rave about moving towards the stillness found in the centre of the wheel. I have personally found this invaluable as the world is becoming more and more intense.
Developing the skill of moving into, and resting inside, the centre of the wheel or the eye of the storm is a really useful tool. From inside this place, there seems to be a slower pace as the wheel turns more slowly in the centre. There is calmness in the centre of the storm (its eye). In this place, we can ride out the storm. The outer rim of the wheel turns rapidly, the world we live in spins between polar opposites like: love - hate, war - peace, prosperity - poverty, but at the centre of the wheel we can rest, regroup our thoughts and make choices.
How do we manage to stay calm amidst lifes challenges? The challenges are inevitable as the only certainty in this life is change. The best place to be is to focus our attention inwards, into our inner world, and rest in the centre where we can choose to retain a sense of calmness, where we can consciously practise witnessing, from a distance, our emotions arising. This gives us a choice as to how we respond to them. Do we need to judge or criticise the emotions rising or are we able to acknowledge them as ‘normal’ and choose not to react to them. We can also consciously slow down our breath to influence how we feel. Its all a work in progress that only happens with practice, practice, practice. There are lots of trigger points around us at the moment that may bring up emotins like anger, fear, judgement and criticism. Do we want to buy into this or do we prefer to choose to be calm, peaceful, grounded in our centre and detached from the outcomes around us in the outer world? Its your choice.
