My Extraordinary Experience..

For sometime now I have been reading about Yoga, the more I read the more I fell in love with the whole issue. On two separate occasions two different doctors advised me to practice Yoga, One was a cardiologist, when he gave up on finding a reason for the very annoying case of palpitations I had three years ago, after my father's death. The other was the specialist who treated me for my bronchial allergy, after he told me that my symptoms are over exaggerated if compared to my case of allergy!! Both pointed out clearly that I was truly stressed out! Well truly I was stressed, so to cut a long story short, I gathered my broken pieces, and tried to figure out what was stressing me, and along the way I started reading about Yoga, books, articles, talk to people who know about it, until two months ago, I took the step that I have been hindering for too long,, I took a practical Yoga course, with a professional mentor. It was one of the most stunning experiences I have had (of course after the magical experience of having a whole human being pulled out of you, aka childbirth).
Well what I want to share with you, is the Two Hour of Magical feeling I shared with a group of people practicing Yoga, when we went to the Dead Sea, that magical lowest point on earth. I have been there many times, I have seen the sea, the sun, the way the sun sets into the sea, each time I went there a feeling of awe fills my heart, I feel happy and calm and very content, but what I feel the most is the gratitude for being born, and living in the small country that owns this beautiful spot, Jordan.
Our Mentor, told us about the special energy that engulfs this place, the air we breathe there is reviving, and as it has been always known, when you are breathing right, you are happy. The most beautiful thing about Yoga, other than it puts all your bodies into harmony, it also teaches you how to breathe right, thus how to be happy.
On that outstanding Saturday, we started the breathing exercises at 4:30 pm, an hour before sunset, it was so relaxing, the asanas or Yoga positions we had were awesome. At sunset, we did Sun Salutations, which are twelve positions, and as we do them, we feel the energy of the sun blessing our bodies with warmth and health. We feel the sunshine going into our souls and we feel united with nature.
I close my eyes now, and I can remember that beautiful feeling fulfilling my body with gratitude. With every breath I took, sunshine blessed my body, energized me, and awakened my mind to a sweet truth. I woke up to the fact that happiness lies inside you, that if you have inner peace, you contain the world in your hands, and that when you have gratitude for everything around you, you are happy and everything seems to fall in place.
I look at the water, and the sun is glistening on its surface, its reflection lighting the sea like pure crystal, I am in the middle of this world, and it is true what my mentor said I am a reflection of God's art of creation on the surface of the earth..
Each time I see the sun in the morning, I am so grateful that there is beauty and warmth all around,, I smile and start my day, blocking out all the bad thoughts, only letting into my heart happiness and beauty,, After all I am nothing, but a reflection of God's beauty in the art of Creation.

Let your soul wander freely,, only then you will have internal peace.