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It's All Yoga

It’s All Yoga

(Simple but not easy)

I don’t think people understand.

It being trend and only trend

They don’t exactly know

What they are doing.

Some think yoga is for beauty.

Some think flexibility.

Some think health of body,

Possibly tranquility.

The list goes on, with vanity foremost.

Yoga has an aim or two or three or four.

Surely, there is more to understand than four, for

Yoga aims at understanding

On a level corresponding to the tangible,

Intangible, (what we call spiritual)

Which means total, total, total, ALL!

Yoga is a vehicle

For every single thing you do in mind and torso

To amplify the total you.

SO,

Focus on your fingers when you touch, grab, push.

Focus on toesies when you lie in bed.

Focus on the brain parts in your you-know, head

When quiet, worried, hurried, rushed,

Anxious, peaceful, doubtful, ‘fraid:

The list goes on and on.

Focus, focus, focus find.

Nowadays they call it mindfulness

Or meditation.

It has always been.

Since everything you do contains

A means to find the who you are,

Defining what you’re headed for,

Ought to go and ought to know.

The principle

Is oh so simple -

But not easy.

Don’t be queasy about living.

It’s all take and it’s all giving.

Make the most of it.

Toast to it.

Make a yoga of this tool kit.

It’s All Yoga 2.11.2018 Circling Round Yoga II; Circling Round Reality; Nature Of & In Reality; Arlene Corwin

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My pen pal in Maine doesn't like the last line.

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