Mindfulness with Leia - 02 Desire

The Energy of Reaching. In the previous video, we noticed how wanting mind can show up. Even just the wish for the practice to feel a certain way. It is a pull toward comfort, ease or pleasure. Today we will continue exploring that idea and how it shows up in the body.

In Qigong, when we sink the Chi it can feel like a reaching gesture which can be light and open or it can become a kind of grasping gesture. Grasping is when ou want the movement to do something for you.

Qigong invites us to move from the center—not from ambition.

It teaches us to let each part unfold in time.

Having these desires doesn’t mean that you are doing anything wrong it just means that you are human. Today instead of reaching for something we will explore reaching into the moment itself while you release all the expectations of the results you feel you need.

Desire has a speed to it—a forward pull.
Today, play with slowing down until that pull dissolves.
Trust that the moment is enough.
See you in the next one,
Leia

Filmed in the Temples around Wudang, China