Day 5 -Ā Cultivating Equanimity
Patanjali, the ancient sage, offered a timeless definition of yoga:
Yoga chitta vritti nirodhah ā€” yoga is the settling of the movements of the mind.
This settling happens when we rest beyond the constant pull of likes and dislikes. Beyond preference and resistance, a quiet clarity begins to reveal itselfā€”a calm that is deeply nourishing and naturally expansive.
Equanimity is the capacity to meet both the outer world and our inner experience with steadiness. It is the ability to observe thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they arise, without being carried away by them.
The mind is often busy commenting ā€” interpreting, judging, preferring, resisting. Yet we are not the content of these thoughts. We are the awareness that witnesses them.
As we settle into this open, spacious presence, life begins to unfold from a deeper source, one guided not by habit or reaction, but by a quieter intelligence and a more inspired way of being.
In todayā€™s meditation, we rest as this witnessing awareness, allowing equanimity to deepen and clarity to arise naturally.
