Life devotions

Feel into this:

our life is our devotion

&

our life is our greatest offering

How juicy, how beautiful are those words??

To appreciate your life as a true gift, to feel into this and imagine its possibility.

What does this mean to you?

Much of my love and interest in yoga was in the wisdom texts, the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, The Radiance Sutras. It was here and sadly only in the odd yoga class, that I learned about your life being your greatest offering. It made total sense to me, that this life we have been given, it lived fully, is an offering to the collective whole.

Often we focus on ourselves, on our life that we imagine to be seperate from others, from the whole. How would that even be possible? We are afterall, pack animals. We thrive in the company of others, we need each other. Of course some of us also need time to ourselves, but not 100% of the time.

I love the story about the monk that wants enlightenment, so his guru sends him to the mounatins to find serenity. He finds it and then returns back to the people and then boom, in a minute, he’s back to himself with all the frustrations and joys of living with other humans.

But rather than this idea of ‘transcending’ life, I side with the Trantra school. The whole of your life is an opportunity for devotion, all of our life is a great altar ready for us to sit and appreciate.

Think about it:

An appreciation for the inside of your home? A person that specialises in making it gorgeous, an Interior Designer. Outside, an Architect. Someone how knows the intricacies of our faces? A Beauitician. The person who tends to a Temple? A caretaker.

An ardent enthusiast, supporter or follower; a devotee.

Are you a devotee of your life?

I love the exercise to take your credit card statement and have a look where your money goes, you’ll soon see what you value and where your devoted.

Is where you spend your time, what you talk about, what you eat, what you wear, what you listen to…. is it lining up with what you say you value?

That’s a fun exercise to find out where your devotions are.

Become the devotee of your own life.

xx