Bus Crash

 There was a very bad accident last night in my town.  Four high school students were coming home from school and plowed into a slow moving school bus with such force that the vehicle was stuck on the bus axial for hours.  Sometimes life feels like that.  You are driving along on your auto pilot paying little attention to what is happening in the background and assuming the players in your life will act the role you have assigned.  Stress and incessant business are behind your wheel….and the bam! Something steps in the way of the life car and you are tossed and your life vehicle appear to be broken.   Why do we meditate or do a physical routine like yoga, QiGong, etc.… to help us step out of autolife and move into being awake and aware.  When you are counting your breath successfully…you can’t be somewhere else and when you can’t count past 5 without losing the count.. it is time to take a good look at ability to drive your life.

  When I was a Kripalu, I bought a CD with three versions of Yoga Nidra.. long, short, sleep version.  I played the sleep version and just as I got off to enter dream land.. the volume on this band jumps as she says RELAX…  my eyes fly open, my eyebrows go up and I know I have a startled look… you don’t expect this – my bed hit the bus.   So like Goldilocks, I try the next band…. And I have yet to hear much farther than … Your body is held by the floor…..zzzzzz.

Not everything works the way your expect it to… but as the tee shirt says…it is easier to want what you have than to get what you want… pay attention…drive mindfully.