The Mother Earth Is Our True Leader

We have only one master, one leader, and one power. It's called the Earth. And we're her servants. She provides us with our life and in return we take care of her giving her TIME to continue her mission. But we also have FREE WILL, which can easily sidetrack us from our responsibility. Lately, the past thousands of years, we have forgotten who we really are.

'The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.' French diplomat, political scientist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville made his one-year journey through America when the country was still relatively new in 1831-1832. He talks about the Native Americans in a way that is far from the stories of those early Westerns we grew up watching. Native Americans knew how to live, how to USE their free will to serve the only master we have, the Earth.

George Orwell gave us a vision in 1949 what the world would be one day. He was little off with his prediction. The year 1984 was just a single note flying in the air alone before the concert really began. That year Apple came up with a powerful TV-commercial using Orwell's vision of the future when advertising Apple Macintosh Personal Computer in the Super Bowl. Meanwhile the computer came with 'a widget that happens to be a high-tech surveillance device,' as Chicago attorney William Coulson puts it.

Orwell was right, the year 1984 was not a mistake, it speeded up the motion of the world to be as we now live it. Every year we celebrate new devices and line up to get them first, we're happy to have more and better things than others have, we need to WANT more new things every day. And when we SUFFER we almost die, because we can't take the pressure. So we medicate ourselves to live another day hopefully without pain. Our concept of life is not deep enough for understanding suffering. We're like trees with our ROOTS cut off. We don't even remember that we used to have them. We have no concept of tribe. We're lost in the heaven of devices, games, and other people's stories, but we all have our own stories deep and powerful. Let's not forget them!

Telescreen, thoughtcrime, thinkpol. They can be our reality if we let it, it's already happening.

All we have to do is to breath deeply and remember that all this what we see and live now happens on the surface. Underlying truth is very simple but well hidden. The truth is to LOVE one another, to LOVE the Earth, to take care of yourself, others and our planet. Our roots are the truth, our connection to the tribe is our truth, we all come from that same place, and we all are ONE in truth. Remember who you are! Then when you die you can die SINGING!

Photo by Veeterzy

The Activism of Water

The question with activism is how to be resistant without being resisting? As water flows freely I know I should have the same attitude toward my life. So, why I still have fear? Why I still blame others of the current situations? Should I look at myself and ask what did I do wrong?

Water is our teacher. Sometimes it's wild, it's breaking its way, it has extreme powers and it can take over in any second. Water has no fear, it can stay still and wait until the time is right to act, knowing its boundaries and knowing that it has no limits. Water is transparent. Sometimes it's liquid, sometimes it takes a form of an ancient iceberg. When in an extreme heat it evaporates. Water is always changing, adapting to the current situation. Water accepts! It never resists the change, but it won't back away when there is need for action. Water can take over if that's what it decides to do. In its non-resisting existence it holds the biggest power. 

Water is energy that is visible to us, it's constantly teaching how to live, how to be active, when to be active and when to wait. When we want to learn about power and resistance we should watch the water. It's neutral. It has no good or bad intentions. It's main purpose is to be here and give us life. Resistance begins with an open heart. With closed heart we block our possibilities to grow and to change. 

'We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartedness can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a peddle into a pond.' - The Dalai Lama -

Photo by Jeremy Goldberg

Respect!

We learn yoga on the mat. First we realise that it helps our body, then we notice how it also helps our mind. Eventually we get to understand the entire system of energy, how it flows, the directions it flows, and the connections it makes within our mind-body-energy field. Finally we learn to USE the energy so that we can consciusly create our own system. This is what's happening at the moment in our global existence! We are about to become conscious creators of our life. The downward spiral will be ongoing for a bit longer... but hold on! Prepare yourself to be ready when the time is up. This transformation time is important part of it all. It's a preparation time! So let's be prepared. Yoga is how we do it! But don't leave yoga on your mat. Learn from it!

This blog is about living your yoga. And these posts work as a continuation. In the first post we learned to get grounded, in the second one we understood the importance of acceptance. First you need to accept the situation you want to change. Then you use your intuition to FEEL what YOU want to do for that change, and then you do it! But before you do anything that involves others make sure you center yourself, and act with total respect toward those whose values are not yours. If you are mad at them and you use anger as your tool, you loose. If you disrespect their space, you loose. Only when you can honor them as they are, and confront them with grace and respect but being honest for your own truth, then you'll win. When acting with hate and disrespect you make wars. When acting with respect and grace you build up conversation. Conversation is the pathway to PEACE. Resist, but do it with respect! This is a new school radicalism! 

So, do I have to accept this crazy world?

I know, it sounds ridiculous to say that to change the world, first we need to accept it as it is. Who wants to do that? How do I accept violence between people? Or wars that are constantly going on? Or at the moment in the US the bringing down of health care system, and boosting up the other systems that are pleasing for the 1% who are already doing fine with their money and possessions? How do I accept the ongoing deportations in Finland of refugees from Afghanistan or Syria who are sent back home today to most likely to be killed? Or that there are people at this moment dying for hunger when there are others who put their money right now for online trading? Why can't they use the overflow of their money and buy food for those who need it? How can I accept the fear that is bestowed on us? The genocide that has been going on for centuries and is still not even close to its end? How can I accept the fact that the icebergs are melting rapidly, and those who could do something just ignore that it's happening at all? How do I accept these stupid actions of ignorant people? This all is making me MAD not ACCEPTANT!! 

But yet, I still think that the acceptance is the answer for change! Anger creates anger, hate creates hate, war is a building block for another war. Hate and anger hasn't been helping humanity. We have seen that and we still witness it every day. When you look at the World, the systems, the politics etc. around you and you don't like what you see, before you get angry and start hating it all and everybody, ask yourself how would it be better? What if the World was just, equal and fare for us all? How would it be to live in that world? When you do this and keep yourself away from that hateful and angry wave that really wants to take you and swirl around with you, you stop a negative energy and change it to life-giving positive building block of the Universe. With your thoughts you begin the change. And then ask yourself: What CAN I DO for CHANGE ? And then do it!! That is our job here. To keep this planet safe! There are no other more important jobs! That's it!

Let's kick the shoes off and wake up!

It's summer, so let's kick our shoes off and walk with bare feet. That is the easiest and quickest way to get back down to earth. We live busy times on this planet. It's important to FEEL were we walk. The steps we take are important, not only the ones we take with our feet but also the ones we take with our mind! Many of us have been asleep for decades. These current times are here to wake us up, to get us back down on our feet, so that we can begin to take those steps forward. Our planet needs US. We are here to keep this planet safe, and in good health for centuries to come. THIS is the time! So let's all WAKE UP, let's get GROUNDED and start to do our job (what ever feels right to you)! Let's begin to work toward the world that is justified, safe, and equal for us all no matter our background, size of a wallet, sexual preferences, color, race or genre. WAKE UP, TOUCH THE EARTH, AND TAKE YOUR STEP! Today walk with bare feet for acceptance! Acceptance is the first step toward real change! This is a true yoga. Yoga is action that flows through your being. Don't leave yoga on the mat, keep it with you all times. LIVE YOUR YOGA!