Har Har Mahadev!
Hey,
I'm Coach Dish.
Welcome to Day 4.
We're halfway through.
So far,
We've been pretty still.
We've been Sthanu,
The unmoved one.
The Neelkanth,
The blue-throated warrior.
The Trinetra,
The Shiva that burns illusions.
But for a moment,
Let's be real.
Life isn't still.
All our lives are kinetic.
It's deadlines,
Changing plans,
Traffic,
Kids,
Noise.
A lot of people think peace means sitting in a quiet room with zero distractions.
But let me tell you this.
If your peace depends on the world stopping,
You're fragile.
Because the world is never going to stop.
So today,
We stop fighting the movement.
We join it.
Today is about flow state.
Today,
We meet Shiva as Nataraja,
The king of dance.
The cosmic dancer.
In every temple or a statue,
You see him.
He's surrounded by a ring of fire.
His hair is flying wild.
He has four arms moving in every direction.
It looks like total chaos.
But look at his face.
Have you ever looked at his face?
It's perfectly calm.
A slight smile.
Eyes half closed.
He isn't fighting the fire.
He's dancing with it.
This is not a contradiction.
This is the highest teaching.
And the teaching is simple.
The universe is a giant wheel.
The fire is your life,
Your work,
Your responsibilities,
The noise,
The rush.
The dancer,
The Shiva,
Is you.
Capable of moving with grace,
Power,
And total peace all at once.
Most of us live on the edge.
The fire.
Getting burned,
Getting thrown around,
And dizzy.
But today,
We move to the center.
We find the still point in the spinning world.
The edge spins fast,
But the center stays still.
So,
Let's begin.
Find your seat.
But today,
I want you to feel a little more ready.
Spine straight,
But shoulders loose.
Like an athlete waiting for the whistle to go off.
Gently close your eyes.
Spend a few minutes connecting with your breath at your heart center.
Just noticing the natural movement of the in and the out breath.
Now,
For the next few moments,
Tune into your heartbeat.
Just drop down.
How intimately can you get to know your beating heart?
It's okay to put a hand on your heart to feel into this.
Can you feel it?
The drum in your chest going boom,
Boom,
Boom,
Boom.
That is your metronome.
The world outside is going a thousand miles an hour.
But in here,
The rhythm is steady.
Relax the belly.
Let the breath move deep and slow.
Now,
I want you to visualize the chaos of your life right now.
See the emails flying in.
See the people needing things.
See your responsibilities,
Your goals.
See the deadlines.
See all the 10,
000 things you have to accomplish.
Imagine it all spinning around you like a tornado of fire.
Now,
Feel your body here in this chair or wherever you're seated.
In the very center of all that spinning,
There is a point of complete calm.
The calm is here in your heartbeat,
In your breath.
It is all here.
It is not afraid of the fire.
It is the source of the dance.
You might even deeper your breath,
Breathing in for a count of four,
And breathing out for a count of six.
With every inhale,
Draw energy from the fire,
Not as pressure,
But as power.
With every exhale,
Root yourself deeper into the calm center.
The fire spins,
But you are still.
The world moves,
But you are steady.
You are not avoiding life.
You are dancing with it from a place of unshakable peace.
Effortless flow.
Did you flinch?
Did you try to reach out and grab one of those spinning tasks?
Did you try to fix the fire?
Don't.
As soon as you reach out,
You get pulled back into the spin,
Into the fire.
Pull your energy back.
Back to the breath.
Back to the center.
Let the fire burn.
You just dance.
Be the Nataraja.
Now,
The great realization.
The center and the fire are not two different things.
The stillness needs the movement to be known.
The movement needs the stillness to exist.
Feel this wholeness.
Feel the unity.
From this stillness and a place of wholeness,
Ask,
Who is dancing?
Who is aware of both the stillness and the movement?
Is it the body?
Is it the mind?
Or is it the vast,
Silent,
Spacious awareness that holds both the calm center and the ring of fire?
Rest as that.
The awareness that dances as everything.
To complete,
Seal this unity.
Take a deep breath in,
Drawing in both energy and peace.
As you exhale,
Feel them merge in your being.
Now,
Gently place both your hands on your heart and set your intention.
I am Nataraja.
I dance in the world from a place of inner stillness.
My actions are my integrity.
May I act in ways that brings benefit to all beings.
Now,
Take a moment to feel the vibration in your body.
Notice how you feel.
Do you feel that buzzing?
That's energy.
That's shakti.
But notice how calm your mind is.
That's Shiva.
You did not just meditate.
You learned how to live.
You discovered that you can engage fully with the world without losing your peace.
That is the secret of flow.
This is grace in action.
Now,
Slowly open your eyes.
As you go into your day,
When things get crazy,
As they always do,
Don't try to stop the chaos.
Just find the rhythm.
Step back into the eye of the storm.
The faster the world moves,
The slower you breathe.
Tomorrow is day five.
The cool down.
Because even the dancers need to rest.
Tomorrow we learn the art of deep rest.
We meet Chandrasekhara,
The one who wears the moon.
The journey continues.
You are the dancer and the dance.
Om Namah Shivaya.
