i've recently finished reading the art of happiness by his holiness the dalai lama. (who, by the way, is still my hero.) in the final chapter, he informs his readers about how to begin to recognize and understand the nature of our mind. he gives instructions on how to meditate on nonconceptuality, which is not a state of dullness or a blanked out state of mind, rather it's the determination to reach and maintain a stillness, without conceptual thoughts. this is a very difficult task for me to do--to simply quiet my mind is hard enough!--but to try to not think, is something else all together. enter yoga and shavashana.
the other day i had a wonderfully therapeutic, rigorous power vinyasa yoga session and while i was in shavashana, i thought of nothing. yes, it's true. yes, it's also true that i think i entered the first layer of sleep but before that happened, i was in a blissful state of nonconceptuality. i realized this after shavashana, which means that i really wasn't thinking! but i was still present. awesome.
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word, shavashana lovers unite! I think it's my favorite part of yoga.
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