Finding Good Space

There’s a word we use in yoga, sukha, which can be translated as ease, happiness, or good space. Yoga is about finding ease in the body, which creates such in the mind and emotions, therefore bringing ease into our daily life. Not in the sense that everything is painless and trouble-free, but that we can manage whatever comes. That we can stay connected to reality as it is.

For this reason, I enjoy seeing sukha from the perspective of ‘good space.’ Having space is about being able to digest the happenings of our life. This is inherently good because when we have the space to host the world in us, the world becomes a less dangerous and fragmented place. Then, there’s room for us to be ourselves in the world.

There are many ways to find good space, but most important is that we know it when we feel it. There’s a nourishing feeling that comes, a refreshing taste of freedom. It flows down through the central channel and radiates outward into the rest of the body. Maybe you can feel it now? Something that is always available but just takes a moment of awareness when we are tight.

Feeling the space of our inner-being is the most ordinary experience that we have learned not to feel. We have filled our cup with many things that take us away from, rather than propitiate it. A spiritual practice is about finding the ways in which we can re-inhabit the space we were given. It is a birthright to occupy your unique space, good space.

Each of us was given square footage in the cosmic blueprint and we must find a way to settle into it. Just like in building a house, when the specs aren’t clear it’s impossible to create a long-lasting structure. We see a lot of distortion in the blueprint today, where many people have overstepped their dimensions and others have underrepresented theirs.

When this is restored, we can once again work together as a human collective with the ecosystem that we are a part of. The momentum is built one individual at a time taking responsibility and owning their space while others find respect for that. It’s a deep act of generosity and humility to find our piece and do it full out.

My wish is that we all find good space. The space that is ours, no more and no less than such. And may we help others in finding theirs, so that collectively we can find our place in this ecosystem and move by the means that life wishes upon us.

Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu