We heard about the term "awareness" in every aspect of life. Do we actually practice "being aware"?
Be aware of your mind. Be aware of your body. Be also aware of your spiritual state.

What is your mind telling you at this moment? Do you always refer back to your thoughts? Where are these thoughts coming from? Are they from your past experiences or are these thoughts your fear of the future? Be aware of the roots of the thought.

When practicing yoga, listen to your body. It's your body, your practice. Only you would know what your body is telling you (except maybe some people who have some psychic spiritual power, and scarily enough, they could tell you what and how you should be feeling sometimes, IF you believe in that area :)). Perhaps, on one long tiring work day, you feel absolutely exhausted; then listen to your body and maybe skip a day of practice. It's okay to skip, as long as you allow yourself to BE HUMAN and listen to your body. You might be afraid that you might not have the discipline to practice randomly as opposed to scheduling yourself to practice. However, I can assure you, if the issue of disciplining yourself has crossed your mind, you definitely have the power to do it. However, if you skip too many times already, then it's another issue. You have resistance. And we can talk about it..:)

About being aware of your spiritual state...I believe there is a higher state of conciousness which many of us would not understand nor experience. It comes into our lives when we are not aware. Those are the times when we do not understand why we do certain things but just have the feeling that we should or should not do certain things. For example, taking a different route to work. Some day, you just feel like or something tells you to walk west instead of east when you leave your door and go to work to break out of the pattern. And then you discover something new on the way. It brightens your day! Great! If not, you have encountered a new experience anyway. No loss as well!! :)

Awareness lies in from within ourselves to beyond our surroundings. I believe if everyone does his/her own part and BE AWARE of one's action, emotion, passion, power of connection, etc., we could create an evolution.

Namaste

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