Masters Dance

What makes those who are more advanced, the masters, so is that they are more in the now.

That's the key to being alive, to be totally in the now, now.

By my estimation, nearly a third of us on this planet tend to be stuck in the past, at one time or another, out of fear of new things, fear of change.

And in observing the more advanced beings or teachers, what I found is that they are not more in the future rather than the past, but they are here and now more, and as they get more advanced they don't simply disappear into the future to never be seen again by those who share the moment of now with them. They may venture there, but they come to the center again, and they get profoundly grounded and rooted in the present moment, and share everything that they have in the now. They give up charitably everything that they create within themselves to everyone.

Their attention is on something that requires no loss of their energy and they are, in a way, doing a dance with it, and having a multifaceted dialogue with it. To the rest of us, it may seem like just many actions and movements that we don't understand (chaos). Or these actions and movements may not seem like much, until you try them. Like Yoga. Often, in my classes, when students do Yoga for the first time, they exclaim, 'This is hard! I thought it was going to be easy.' I usually explain that those people they see in pictures and on TV doing Yoga, have likely been doing it for enough time, that it became easy. Yoga is not a magic pill, that you take once and become a Yogi. It is a practice, that is developed with consistent evolution of the soul.

Yoga is this dance, of the soul's Life with eternity, with immortality. What the masters are dancing with is themselves, their shadow, all the parts they don't understand also, and through the movement, they come to understand and know themselves, and to know God. The masters are more at union with themselves, in the now. And the whole universe is the natural orchestra and dance hall around them, supporting and creating space for this wonderful romance of a person with his and her Angel. If you see the world from the point of view of your Angel, it is miraculous. It is never dreary, or monotonous. The rhythm is full of excitement and life. And doing the same pose over and over again, until you 'get it right' really is an exciting adventure into Light.

And the key to opening the gate to this dance of heaven with Earth is gratitude. In my experience, gratitude is an instant remover of walls, your own, that is. Because even those that seem to be posed to you by someone else, that you seem to have no control over, you do. And in affirmation of gratitude, with total faith that God is on your side, rejections slip away. Gratitude practiced systematically is the best antidote to psychological (and emotional) blocks that I know.

By Anastasia Toom (c) 2009