Ever feel like maybe you are exactly where you need to be?
That circumstances and decisions made in the past have all led to your being here at this exact place and moment in time…
That maybe we shouldn’t be rushing off to or worrying about the next thing because this moment has its own value to impart…
That you wouldn’t have the great things that you have now if it weren’t for less than desirable situations in the past…
That maybe rough times are up ahead and we need to appreciate the present so that we can thrive in the future…
That this present though far from perfect is still good in its own unique way…
In the spiritual practice of yoga, one of the guiding principles is Santosha. Simply put, it is the practice of contentment. There are many ways to interpret that. For me, it’s living in the moment and spending more time recognizing what I have rather than lamenting over things that I don’t. I am where I need to be and I have what I need.
Does it mean that I don’t wonder how differently life would have been if I had decided to go to a different college? (Or other similar life-altering decisions?) I still do but rather than thinking it might have been better I simply acknowledge that all I can ever really know for sure is that it would have been different.
I am here now. In my current job. With my husband. In our cozy apartment. With good friends living nearby. With my gaze turned towards the future but my feet firmly rooted into the present ground.
Namaste.
Yogitastic 