Philosophers speak about being in the "now," in the present. Last night at the end of my yoga class as we were settling in for the ten minute shvasana, the pose where we lie on our backs, my yoga teacher spoke about allowing the mind to settle into a deeper place, to connect with or drink from a deeper source she called atma, which I think means soul.
Right now I am drinking my morning coffee and I am aware of my mind flitting from a replay of the last several days when a friend was visiting, to a phone conversation from last night, to a business plan that I will be fleshing out this week. My mind could write a dissertation about all three of these subjects! In fact it is attempting to do just that while I am writing this blog (!) and I find myself needing to turn away from the circular thoughts: how I hope something will turn out and what I wish was different.
So instead I am turning my mind to this: Right here right now, I am enjoying the warmth of the morning sun, the hypnotic hum of the refrigerator motor and the sound of the keys on my laptop as I type. And, for just right now, that's enough. There is nothing to solve, to change, write more coherently about (!), or make happen.
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