Hello, hoping you’re well, safe and the entering the new year the way you deserve.
This past weekend I led my first practice of the year. It was a chair class that focused on the eight limbs. We entered the year with the yamas (five observances and behaviors which regulate how we relate to others). The first of five yamas is ahimsa.
1. Ahimsa: Non-Violence
Ahimsa means being non-violent in word, thought or action. It means not causing pain to other living beings, which include animals, insects and plants. If we establish non-violence in our daily lives all conflict will come to an end.
Note: ones non-violence may prove to be violence to another.
Something to consider: “It takes two hands to clap and make a sound.” With just one hand no sound is made. So, if you do not react when someone has a conflict with you, then the conflict will end – no clap, no noise.
Yoga Sutra 2.35: Becoming established in non-violence, those around cease to be hostile.
Journaling Prompt: Identify something that scares you, this may connect you with why your words, thoughts and actions towards self and others may be derived from.
Take good care,
Natasha
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