Prana
This is a term used a lot in the yoga tradition and throughout modern yoga. There is even a clothing company who has coined this as their brand name. It is much more than a cute yoga top.
It has a depth of meaning, but essentially it means “life force”.
It flows on the wings of your breath and supplies your every cell with vitality and LIFE. There are multiple types of prana that flow through the body. It’s complex, alive and is what keeps us alive
Lifeforce, vitality, or let’s even call it “energy” flows in the direction you place your attention, your awareness. If your attention or mindset is constantly flowing to comparing yourself to other people, judging or criticizing yourself or others, noticing the flaws, imperfections, mistakes, and problems, it’s likely you will have a harder time accepting yourself or others for who they are. You only see the flaws.
This can be a liability when we consider the act of self-love and overall self-compassion. The part of us that desires a kind of softening. Softening allows us to receive. Receiving can be one of the most challenging practices if we identify ourselves as independent and able to do it yourself, and this I don’t need anyone else belief about our life.
This week’s micro habit:
Take a moment and pause. Put your hand on your belly and receive your breath. Notice that by simply shifting your awareness to your breath, it expanded. Take another breath into the invitation for expansion. Notice what happens when you do that.
A few moments of this kind of conscious breathing will ground your awareness and invite you into a deeper relationship with the moment.
Life is made up of small, perhaps insignificant moments strung together over time. Receive the gifts and the medicine of each one of them with a deeper connection to your breath and pivot each moment into a significant experience.
Your breath becomes the starting point,
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Rachel Peters is a yoga teacher, yoga health coach, lifestyle and habits expert, easeful living advocate, and lover of wild places. She leads others towards Embodying Ease through a yearlong wellness & lifestyle journey to dissolve perfectionism, embody daily habits that promote mental clarity, overall ease, and deeper connection to life on this wild ride of modern living. Learn MORE today!