“Yoga
is stilling the waves of the mind.” My wife recently asked me when I was at my
happiest. Two moments sprung to mind. When I was doing my first Yoga Teacher
Training, and the period when we got together. A few months before we met, I
had done the sums and made peace with a simple life in exchange for release
from the Corporate World. Clearly that peace was sexy. It got me the girl. Yoga
talks of three levels of relaxation – physical (no niggles), mental (no anxiety),
and spiritual (no concern over you vs others). I am at my happiest when I am at
my most calm. Not worried about now, but also not worried about a week from
now, or a year. My “Financial Yoga” is based on this. A deeply secure
foundation, where the uncertainty is upside. A comfort with the base. That
doesn’t mean inactivity. Ironically, stilling the waves opens up creativity.
That is the heart of the idea of Wu-Wei (Action through Inaction). Start with a
buffer to reduce the noise. Build a base. Then from the stillness that comes the
creativity that matters will flow.
Yoga (and silliness) in the Mountains
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