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rule #3: the Eastern star
Rule #3 of Yoga Reset is called ‘The Eastern Star’, and it’s one that you can begin applying immediately and for the rest of your life.
I’ll leave the written version here, but I invite you to listen to the narration of this rule, as it’s best consumed as a guided meditation.
Close your eyes and let me take you on a quick journey. Relax and allow the words to percolate images on the inside of your eyelids.
You’re standing in a forest. Everything in sight is perfectly green and gold. Listening to the sound of leaves rustling and birds chirping causes your breath to slow. The air smells like early summer, sweet perfume radiating from the plants that surround you. You’ve stopped to admire a particularly large tree when you become aware of the whirring of a hummingbird’s wings. You watch it for a moment, appreciating its beautiful green feathers and ruby-red throat. It’s minding its own business, rocketing around the base of the tree and its branches like a tornado.
Suddenly an idea forms in your mind: you whistle the hummingbird over, open your hand, and hope that it will pay you a visit. To your surprise, it actually flies towards you, but instead of landing on the palm of your hand, it zooms over it and pauses on top of your head.
Imagine that…a hummingbird! Perfectly hovering above your crown like a halo, unmoving besides the blur of its beating wings.
Okay, pause everything you’re doing.
Freeze-frame this image and hold it in your mind tightly. Notice how you’re standing. How your head is angled. What your eyes are up to.
Now pretend your mind is a smartphone that can take a screenshot of this moment. Capture it as precisely as you can: colors, shadows, shapes, etc.
Great, now just relax and picture the image you’ve just taken in your mind. There’s something interesting I want you to notice about it.
You actually left your body to take this picture.
What do I mean? Well…I’d be willing to bet that the image you’ve screen-shotted is you in the third-person. It’s a picture of you, not from you. You are viewing yourself from some angle.
For instance, when I run this experiment in my own mind, I take the picture from the lower-right quadrant of my mind. I seem to be a floating eyeball, located at shoulder-height, looking slightly up and to the left at myself and the hummingbird.
But were this situation real, you wouldn’t be able to see the hummingbird at all, right? Remember, it’s floating above you, not in front of you. Sure, you would feel air lightly fanning the top of your head and hear it vibrating in space, but no hummingbird would ever appear in your visual field.
Every time you identify with a thought like this, you will leave the center of your skull. Not literally, obviously, but subjectively.
Can you notice that right now? Are you centered directly in the center of your forehead, or are you somewhere else?
When you are firmly rooted in you, you cannot be lost in thought. You cannot be restless or judgemental or triggered.
However, the moment you start listening to the ego voice in your head, you’ll be knocked out of your center, disembodied and disconnected.
Challenge yourself right now: open your eyes and look at the world around you. Relax, just look, and don’t move from your center at all. How long can you stay right behind your eyes? How quickly do you become unbalanced?
The third rule of Yoga Reset is to return to this head-center as often as possible. I call it ‘The Eastern Star’ and the coolest part of it is that it’s applicable 24/7. That is, you can always — always — come back here.
And…!
If you continue returning to this spot, eventually your ‘Eastern Star’ will become as bright as the sun, burning up your ego in a glorious moment of self-transcendence. Until that day, though, follow ‘The Eastern Star’ wherever it leads. Trust that it will bring you back home.
Alright, that’s it for Yoga Reset’s three rules. Now we can get into the subtleties. The next 5 pages detail different nervous system tips you can use to speed up your stress-relief process.
Thanks for being here,
– Ethan ॐ
P.S. If you’d rather skip the extra nervous system hacks, no worries. Feel free to just unlock the class bundle below or join me on Zoom for my next live session.
P.P.S. Let’s practice ‘The Eastern Star’ while moving! Head to the practice section for some cat/cows! 🐈⬛→🐄
P.P.P.S. You have many different centers in your body: crown, mind, throat, heart, belly, sacrum, root. Focusing on any one will bring an entirely new flavor to your experience.
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