You start by stepping into the water that separates you from where you are and where you want to be. You learn to walk upon water and when balance is lost—because we are human and that is our truth—you must learn to tread water.
You may make a list of ideas you can share that have all been shared before and will all be shared again. You may think of teachings you can repurpose in your own style.
You realize knowledge is never ending. It is okay to slow down and focus on the present moment til it’s nectar opens and your nose turns you forward.
Forward is not simply where your feet take you. Forward is a path your heart has already decided upon that requires the alignment of your time, energy, and body to experience.
Maybe starting a yoga blog is learning how to be comfortable with typing and breathing through the waves. Of ambition and anxiety. Perhaps starting a yoga blog is accepting you do feel with your heart and interpret with your mind.
You may question everything that relates to this task and judge it. You may be critical where you once were so receptive, so open, so ready to receive. Should the mind be guarded from what may change the course by impacting the integrity of the itinerary? Or should the mind allow what comes her way?
Is non attachment allowing the mind to correct itself without interference? Is non attachment observing the unique ways and styles of the mind that is within you? Is it okay to love the way your mind decides, declares, and deepens?
You may think of those who have started to write with some of the same questions as you. How did they manage to conquer through the doubts and days of uncertainty? Did they pause on the water and turn back to the shore?
What do you have to say that a sage has not already said? Do you matter at all in the grandness of creation? Can you take part silently? Must you offer yourself?
Aren’t you not yourself? Isn’t this body a part and piece of the puzzle? Aren’t you not your mind? Aren’t you not your heart? What words of your mind are distinct to you?
What leads you back to your mat fastest? What can you do to return to the meditation of your heart? When can you return to your breath and allow your heart and mind to connect once again? These are the questions you decide your writing will answer.
You will walk upon the waters that exist between where you are and where you will be. You will learn to choose harmony, be calm, feel the compass of the heart. You will allow the rest to be. You will experience the mystery. You can be here and now. You can keep your cup full and continue to practice, noticing how you develop and align in all the practices and in all the routines that are yours today, maybe yours tomorrow, but will one day be neither yours nor known.
So with gratitude, you honor the time you have spent upon the page, inhale, exhale, and save and send the document out into the unknown and unseen to maybe be known and seen, for just a moment and no more.
Namaste.
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