I got up this morning with a very stiff lower back muscle. That feeling is rare. I’ve had to bend a few times to loosen it.
It could be my mattress. Most likely the cause stems from a new exercise in my weight lifting routine. I’m thinking about alignment. If I don’t have my body perfectly aligned with my arms raising in the proper alignment and my breath just right, sore muscles will occur.
We teach proper alignment constantly in Yoga. One misalignment holding a pose can cause pain somewhere.
A person I’ve just met asked me about calming her soul. I told her 60 years of meditation dealt with much of my emotional and anger issues. She had heard too much about all the postures, things to do with hands, chants or mantras. I told her it is easy. Don’t stress. Just sit in a solid chair. Relax arms. Eyes closed or open. Don’t care. Thoughts fly through the brain like a flock of blackbirds in autumn. Don’t care. Just align breathing intentionally. In…Out… Thoughts come and go. I told her I can do 2 hours in corpse pose in bed. But 5 minutes a day is sufficient. Heck, even 2 minutes to begin. It’s like an old cola commercial…”the pause that refreshes.”
We align our soul with our breath.
That helps us align our soul with our life leading to a better, more appropriate response to what life brings to us.
The human condition. We think too much. We worry too much. We are anxious about being perfect too much.
Relax. Take a deep breath. Then another. Then tackle life’s challenges one thing at a time as we align our flow to the situation.
Faith Venture 
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