I have been longing to write for a while but for some reason it seemed like I needed to be back home to get down to it. I did have some more time to myself when we were on parental leave in Spain but somehow I really wanted to use that time to get as much yoga in as possible. And I think it helped and change is happening, getting outside my comfort zone. For one I'm going to try eating vegan for a while. I had been contemplating this move for a while as in my opinion it makes a lot of sense to cut out dairy and eggs as well when you try to stay away from eating animals. When I read this book called eating animals, I realized that there is a lot of suffering caused by dairy production and that all male chicken get killed because they won't lay eggs is a fact. Something I wasn't aware of was that female chicken are also slaughtered after three years since they start producing less eggs then. It's all about efficiency I guess.
To make a long story short, I kept coming up with excuses such as- I'll start once I stop breastfeeding or maybe at some point I'll be ready to give up cheese. But no, I don't think I'll ever be more ready than now. At this point in my life I have to take responsibility and I want to be able to tell my child that I am eating responsibly. I don't think we'll raise him vegan as that might be a little complicated although against common opinion I read it's possible, but when he's old enough I want him to make an informed choice. Anyway, let's see how this pans out I'm sure there will be times where I struggle with this decision but for now it feels like the right thing to do.
Yoga is about so much more than just the poses. That's also something I saw last weekend at the teacher training. I felt a lot of resistance at first because the topics were death and birth and I was thinking- why are we talking about these things if all I want to do is practice yoga. A few days in I am now slowly getting to understand that all this talk about how souls enter and leave our lives was more important than doing asanas. The yogic approach says that the soul picks its parents according to what they need and the soul also decides to leave the body when it is ready. Apparently it lingers around the physical body for 3 days so it's good to wait this long with cremation or burying. A lot of people told some creepy stories about having seen or felt souls and other supernatural phenomena and while I was put off at first, I think there is something to it. How depressing would it be if there was only this one life and that's it? I do think reincarnation is a consoling idea and should definitely help us clear karma. Something that really stuck with me was that kids up to the age of 3 or 4 sometimes remember their previous lives and know things they really couldn't have learned in this life. I wonder where our son's soul came from and what his life vision is :-) we also did a visualization that helped us remember the situation that our own parents were in when we were conceived- fascinating but I think I have more work to do to uncover my life's vision. But then again, here's to hoping that I still have at least half of this life ahead of me.
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