I have felt off for the last few weeks, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the unsettled weather, having less time to myself, professional issues, or just not going to enough yoga classes with my awesome teacher.
For times like this, there are hippie platitudes–I mean, quotes from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying:
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.
Think of your ordinary emotional, thought-ridden self as a block of ice or a slab of butter left out in the sun. If you are feeling hard and cold, let this aggression melt away in the sunlight of your meditation.
Let peace work on you and enable you to gather your scattered mind into the mindfulness of Calm Abiding, and awaken in you the awareness and insight of Clear Seeing.
And you will find all your negativity disarmed, your aggression dissolved, and your confusion evaporating slowly like mist into the vast and stainless sky of your absolute nature.
(From here, via said awesome yoga teacher. Yes, I visit that site nearly every day.)