Transitions

My youngest child is moving to college in a couple of short weeks. One week ago, I moved to a new studio to teach yoga and more yoga. My husband has moved offices and changed businesses. Summer is ending and Fall is around the corner. Is it me, or is a time of transition not really a "time" but truly more just the way of life? Because for me, I feel as though I am forever in transition. There's never an arrival, an end or even a holding steady. Taking in a deep breath only allows us to keep moving. And of course, thank goodness for that! So, if this is true and life really is more transition than not, how am I doing with that? Does being in constant transition agitate me or can I find rest in flux? Does it energize me? Do I make fists with my hands and ready my boxing gloves every morning to spar with the day and all it's transitions? Do I get frustrated that kids don't stay little, summers end, sleep isn't always great and traffic gets worst and worst? Or, can I take a deep breath and step back enough to widen my view? Can I decide that change might actually be good for me? Can I embrace the making of adjustments, create new habits? Can transitioning from a very busy household to one a whole lot less, be all bad? Can I learn to move well, to "float" through transitions? Can I be grateful that I am still learning and adapting and growing because of them? I don't get to control life's circumstances, but I do decide my attitude about them. In yoga, we focus on finding form in our physical body as we make a shape. Some of the shapes we like while others, not so much. We know what we're good at and what we're not good at and in all of that judgement, we transition from one pose to another already with made up minds as to how it will go in our bodies. We've decided, and our bodies oblige our made up minds and to heck with the transition from one pose to another! Just get me there and then get me out! When I am forced to sit in traffic, can I stop thinking about my destination and the delay in getting to it and instead connect to right now? Can I slow my breath and calm my nervous system? Can I notice something beautiful in the stillness of the wait, I would otherwise miss. Can I still have peace in a transition, a posture I don't like in order to see differently that maybe I can learn something new and be better because I can decide my attitude. I don't want to miss a moment to catch center. I will eventually arrive to my destination as well as to the yoga shape I don't like, hold my judgement and take in a deep slow breath so I can grow and discover something new; find good. It's all in me already. Transitions just get me there.