Strength

Today’s yoga was themed around a story about dharma. Its an interesting topic for me especially lately.

I know when I first learned the term dharma, I was charmed by the concept, but a little stressed about how I would figure out mine. It seemed like a quest. A mystery that some people had already figured out and were easily living. I desperately wanted to live mine.

Dharma means living a life that makes the most sense for each individual. It’s about adhering to rules and practices that are in complete accordance with who you are. Deepak has a whole chapter in the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success about it. I understood it to mean living a purposeful life doing work that uses your unique talents. Like a doctor or a nurse is a good example if you love and resonate with your work, you are probably living your dharma.

The yoga story was about being strong, our instructor told us that living in dharma gives us strength. We went on to do many warrior and bow inspired strengthening poses.

I never thought about it like this. When I live as I am comfortable living, I do have a certain strength. Its a strength in my own certainty, a strength of conviction, which translates into calm confidence. It is regulation. For this reason alone I think it would be good to have learned about this when I was young. Again it comes down to the simple advice to just be yourself

Be your best self. Be myself? Im definitely trying…