Silver Linings

Too many people miss the silver linings because they are expecting gold. – Maurice Setter

I am one week post major surgery for a radical hysterectomy. I was diagnosed with cancer. I am on the couch unable to move. I am fifty-five and this is the first time in my life I have been down. With the body unable to move the mind has lots of time to think. I have cancer, I had a radical hysterectomy, I am thrown into menopause…where is the silver lining in this cloud?
Every thing happens for a reason and sometimes we need to look deep inside to find the element of good. Everything has a flip side. Emotions and attachment are what get us into trouble.  That is why yoga teaches us to detach from our emotions and see each situation that comes into our life as simply an opportunity to grow and learn.  Within the confines of my disease and my surgery I am growing in so many ways that I never imagined possible. I am able to step back without emotion, view the situation, and find the silver lining in this cloud.
The silver lining in the cloud is a wake up call to bring balance to my life.  The goal of yoga is to balance the life’s energies so as to bring happiness to your life.  The silver lining is simply the opportunity to find happiness from within. So much of life is lived from the superficial. We account for ourselves through the material world.  Happiness from within is the ultimate achievement.
Part of the problem I am discovering as I am working through my recovery and healing is that most of life is lived from an emotional state.  Just last night I found myself being emotional. I reached out and acted from the emotion rather than the feeling and was very disappointed in the outcome.  What is needed is taking the emotions of insecurity, fear, loneliness, sadness, and any other negative emotion and moving it into a positive emotional state.   Especially from a circumstance of illness we need to move from negativity to positivism with great enthusiasm. We must become enthusiastic about life and not look to others or others things to make us feel happy and whole.
With enthusiasm we begin to understand life’s goodness and its ecstasy and then we can energize it. The cloud then gives way to the silver lining within.  As life becomes energizes, the pores clean, the glands purify, and everything begins working better in body, mind, and spirit. We begin to regenerate, rejuvenate, and live.
Yoga teaches us to seek the silver lining in every cloud. Yoga shows us a way to rebalance the soul and thus achieve a state of peacefulness. We become more content with our lives. Contentment is the silver lining in the cloud. It is the ability to find the positive within the darkness and with great enthusiasm make it the journey of your life.
Doctor Lynn
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