Mindfulness helps us to see others beyond expectations, beyond even, our hopes for each other. Mindfulness restores the wholeness that is lost when we all have our own screens, routines and bedrooms. Mindfulness guides families to act as a
creative symphony, rather than a disjointed set of competing instruments as they rush onto stage.
Mindfulness wraps up what Patanjali taught us in the Yoga Sutras and eases out an introduction to what life is when a lifestyle of Yoga is introduced into our family. While things buzz around us in the world, we can use our practice to remind us that we are all connected, within the color and support that a family can provide.
It’s going to be different in our homes. We will still wear thin, we’ll still flake out, we’ll still wish some days had gone differently.
But we will know two things:
Number one: we didn’t give up our path to live this life, the best we can, together as a family. And Number Two: the things that didn’t help us grow can be let go. As the Bhagavad Gita tells us, we should Never Give Up and Always Let Go.
In family life, this lesson can be freeing and empowering. We love each other so much that we’ll never give that up, not in a million years. But we also know that a million years is a long time, and we don’t want to be holding on that little old Yoga class from Chicago ’06. Much more meaningful to let all that go and love each other bit by bit, day by day, moment by moment.