{"id":3002,"date":"2022-08-10T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2022-08-10T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T17:23:55","slug":"reflecting-on-where-i-am-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/reflecting-on-where-i-am-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting On Where I Am Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/06\/class_yy-practices-02_reflection.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2351 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/06\/class_yy-practices-02_reflection-300x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/06\/class_yy-practices-02_reflection-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/06\/class_yy-practices-02_reflection-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/06\/class_yy-practices-02_reflection-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/06\/class_yy-practices-02_reflection.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/teachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lakshmi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted June 9, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs you work with reflection, you begin to see your life with a new kind of perspective \u2013 not what you\u2019ve done wrong but what you are learning. And if you can remember that, it makes you more independent and strong.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n~ Swami Radhananda,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0080XO2E4\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Living the Practice<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seems like the pandemic is over with so many people vaccinated\u2026but it isn\u2019t quite yet. I\u2019m wondering what the new normal will be as we transition from the current status. What are my next steps? What have I learned that I want to take into my next stage?<\/p>\n<p>This takes me back to reviewing my journals to see what and how I learned from my victories, challenges and mistakes in the past that brought me to where I am now. I note that both Swami Radha and Swami Radhananda wrote books based on the journals they kept through the years (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Radha-Womans-Search-Swami-Sivananda-ebook\/dp\/B008B93URC\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1623257520&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Radha: Diary of a Woman\u2019s Search<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004HFS6BO\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carried by a Promise<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>respectively<em>)<\/em>. So journaling is such a treasure and I regret that I didn\u2019t do more of it. However, it feels like it is time to reflect and write my thoughts particularly on this past year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSelf-reflection is such an important part of yoga. It is said that consciousness knows everything but the mind can\u2019t hold all of that knowledge. It just gets little glimpses. So, you need to put the glimpses together, keep gathering up the clues. Writing down your experiences helps you train the mind to concentrate and observe, and it creates a record of your own personal wisdom\u201d.<\/em><br \/>\n~ Swami Radhananda,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0080XO2E4\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Living the Practice<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I encourage others to use this valuable practice to check-in with yourself at this crucial time in our history\u2026in\u00a0<em>your<\/em>\u00a0history.<\/p>\n<p>Om shanti, shanti, shanti<br \/>\nLakshmi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Lakshmi Originally posted June 9, 2021 &nbsp; \u201cAs you work with reflection, you begin to see your life with a new kind of perspective \u2013 not what you\u2019ve done wrong but what you are learning. And if you can remember &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/reflecting-on-where-i-am-now\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yasodharayoga.org\/spokane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}