One of my yoga classes last week was about restoration. We are so busy rushing around in our lives that taking time out to breathe in everything around us is a rare luxury. I don't believe you have to achieve a meditative state of calm to fully restore ourselves, it can be in the simple act of being present in whatever it is we are doing - present to the conversations we are having without checking our phones, present to the work we are involved with without multi tasking, present to our loved ones without being distracted by work, present to the food we eat without gobbling down each bite in time for the next meeting...
These words by William Saroyan express this idea beautifully - that being present to what we do is what being wholly alive is about.
These words by William Saroyan express this idea beautifully - that being present to what we do is what being wholly alive is about.
"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat,
and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly
alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And
when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be
dead soon enough."
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