Why You need to Zoom EVERY SINGLE DAY

I often think about my vision in terms of zooming out or zooming in, or straight up chillen in the oh so popular zoom room itself. 

Zooming out gifts us the opportunity to see the peaks and valleys of the mountain range, the canopy of the forest, and the vast, vastness of the oceans. This kind of grand perspective of looking at our lives from afar is the development of our patience, for when we want to throw a tantrum and get our way right here and now in this exact moment, it is the bungie cord that lifts us up and reminds us to check our spam email, where the follow up reminder to breathe was sent. The mountain ranges are like long term goals and desires with the clarity that we cannot have a peak without a valley. So next time your heart feels like its being ripped from your chest or your restlessness feels like a never ending game of laser tag, you can sit in your hurt with the blanket of the forest wrapping you in her arms. She will hold you while you cry tears of pain and gratitude into the boundless seas of humanity with not one iota of doubt that what you are feeling is just the stark contrast of another epic Everest mission of which there is sure to be many. Or maybe it’s simply the muscle gainz needed to fuel our knowing that we are capable of enduring all the feels there is to feel, resulting in conscious choices of stimulation rather than strangulation. 

Zooming in on the other hand, is where we build the rocket ship of which we ride to zoom out. Here is where we get to examine all of the caves with their nooks and crannies tucked quietly into the mountain side. The fossils are like our tendencies, carved out with our incessant thoughts and behaviors, over and over again until they have either served up super human powers or subterranean nightmares. When we zoom in, what was once a canopy is now a crevice, of which holds the leaf, portraying our lifes map in its wise spider web like veins. The veins, like our royal chariot, awaiting us, to usher us deeper and deeper within, until even the most obscure capillary is as familiar as the smell of home. 

This is the practice of yoga, we zoom in to zoom out, so that we can have the ability to zoom unto the homeroom of which we are perpetually assigned, the one where we will forever and always be the double headed student and teacher. We zoom out to zoom within so that we can actually enjoy our current homeroom, right here, right now, under this magnificent tree, canopied in a whirlwind of blue skies, and palm trees, and ocean seas, we can ride the bridge of our breath and insperience the experience of you and me, so together we can realize with our real eyes, the unity, the clarity, and the humility that the trifecta of zoom vision most definitely guarantees. 

Thank you beautiful human for taking the time to read and consider my thoughts. This blog was inspired by what is known as a drishti in yoga. This is a specific gaze for each physical posture that is meant to ground and center you. Whatever we afix our gaze on is what we see and what we see is like the headlights to our life. We get to choose where to place this gaze at every moment of our life. What if we could prioritize star gazing and sun gazing gazing? What if we could spend more time gazing within ourselves without blame, judgment, or guilt? What if we could gaze upon each others’ goodness with faith and trust that our hearts are pure and our light is divine? Where will you place your gaze today? 

Muchas Gracias dear ones,

All my love and blessings,

Andrea Dawn