Peacefulness Bound

We need your voice quit hiding in the closet

Your creative streak mines a valuable deposit

In the coffers of the Earth and the great human spirit

Can you feel it? Smell it? Taste it? Can you hear it?

The days of self doubt and tamping down are through

You are needed to help the collective pull through

The sludge of this patriarchal nightmare breaks down

Revealing an equity— we’re peacefulness-bound

Bring out your voice, your words, your kindness

Your spontaneous true heart— let yourself find this

The energy that keeps us all afloat 

Must come from dispelling the fears by rote

Say what you feel, dive into that pool

Free to tell the tale, be daring, be cool

The only way to uncover this prosperous bliss

Is to speak out in tumultuous times like this.

Tricia Schwaba 2020

 
 

When We Practice Yoga...

When we practice yoga we take it pose by pose allowing ourselves to, in real time, nurture the philosophy of living in the moment. Each pose offers us a prospective reminder that life is better lived when we understand that this moment is what we have. In the midst of a aligning, adjusting and breathing into the pose, lies the benefit of being focused on the moment at hand. The physical body and the directing mind are the vehicles for that focus.

Tricia Schwaba

Thich Nhat Hanh on Breathing

“Breathing in, I calm my body.” Reciting this line is like drinking a glass of cool lemonade on a hot day—you can feel the coolness permeate your body. When I breathe in and recite this line, I actually feel my breath calming my body and mind. “Breathing out, I smile.” You know a smile can relax hundreds of muscles in your face. Wearing a smile on your face is a sign that you are master of yourself. “Dwelling in the present moment.” While I sit here, I don’t think of anything else. I sit here, and I know exactly where I am.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

I Suppose

I suppose this voice has been in me since before my time on Earth. Once conceived, it guided the timing of my birth — the perfect circumstance for a divine succession, of events that bring lessons that can eliminate my obsessions. I suppose that my parents were chosen specifically for me, the combining of their energies offering me exactly what I need, to evolve into the adult I have so uniquely become, to stand on a mountaintop, beat my solitary drum. I suppose that when I leave the Earth there will be a certain kind of heartache, my energy soaring to another time, another space. I suppose a voice will shed light on what lives on, as I initiate a new orbit with new oceans to make waves upon.

Tricia Schwaba, 2022

Relax

“Learn from this universal truth: By relaxing our bodies, quieting the chatter of our minds, and allowing our hearts to be more sensitive to our situation, we open up to the very inner qualities and resources that can help us grow.” 

ANON