Connection

I feel like I’ve made a few big discoveries lately.  But like most big discoveries, they don’t really sound like all that much when you say them out loud or write them down.  They’re what we might call “universal truths”—something you discover more than invent yourself, something that many great seekers and thinkers and teachers have said in lots of different ways.  Something I already know, but suddenly I know it more.

1) when I am feeling something and then start to figure out why or what it’s about or what I should do about it, I have left myself

2) when I express what I want or how I am feeling, it creates connection rather than separation (which is what I think I have believed)

I have been very moved by this woman named Brené Brown who is a social worker (yay!) and researcher of things like shame and vulnerability.

Here is her Ted talk.

And here is a link to her blog.

I decided to start reading her blog from the beginning, which is a few years worth, and every time, I feel like I am going to start crying.  I am not sure what it is exactly and I am not trying to figure it out.  I am just feeling it.  One of my sweet students lent me her book, which I am saving for Monday when I have jury duty (we’ll see if that turns out to be a good idea), and said she sounds like me.  That’s because she’s talking about those universal truths.

Anyway, I don’t really have much to say.  And I guess the way this ties into yoga is that one translation (my favorite) of the word yoga is connection.  I just wanted to say hi.