Yoga Hobos

To surrender is to be so accepting of what is, that if you have to feel what ails you for the rest of your life, it will not inhibit you from experiencing the joy of being.

At one point in my life, I would have been morbidly obese if fear was fattening. Keep that potential bias in mind as I make the claim that we are a society that lives in fear. We fear the microscopic microbe we try to kill with anti-bacterial cleanser. We fear other people as we lock our doors, turn on the alarm, and keep the gun loaded. You know, just in case.

We live in fear of the potential. “It might; he may, they could”. We live in fear of the inevitable (such as death). And I must ask once again as I did in my zombie entry, if we live in fear, are we really living? Once again, I find the need to quote Albert Einstein who said, “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.”

No more. So much fear can be dissipated if we no longer live in ignorance and illusion and simply trust. I choose to trust. Rather than fear the microbe, I choose to trust that my immune system and infinitely wise body will protect we as necessary. And when the universe decides I should fall ill, I trust that I will be able to ascertain the message. I choose to trust others. My doors shall remain unlocked and my heart open.

I trust that all events serve a purpose. I will no longer fear the potential. I choose to trust and be grateful for whatever the universe delivers to me in this moment.