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Endings and Beginnings

Today is the one year anniversary of my father’s passing. Like many little girls, my Dad was my first hero. I remember my father reading the newspaper and typing stories and letters on his old manual typewriter with a pencil lying on top of his earlobe. I remember seeing him quietly advising people who came to our house for assistance. I see my Dad dressed up ( he was so handsome) taking my mother out to some social function. And I remember him marching around the house getting his daily exercise.

My Dad left a comfortable and prestigious life in the Philippines, ending his chance to carry on the family legacy in the field of law. He started his life over as an immigrant to follow his dream in America. My Dad was a POW during WWII and even survived the Bataan Death March. My father is part of what some call “the greatest generation.”

I still miss him, but even more, I remember the kind of human being he was and the legacy he left behind. He was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things. He did more than just survive through life. My father made his mark and he will always be loved and remembered by all those lives he touched. My father, Romulo Silao Villa, is my role model for courage, strength and truth.

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I have always found a duality in myself concerning endings and beginnings. Endings have a sadness about saying good-bye but good-byes also bring relief. So too with beginnings, which I approach with anxiety and apprehension, yet there is an excitement of something new. I dare to dream of a new life. So I say good-bye to 2007 and welcome 2008 . . . but is it with sadness or apprehension? Do I have the courage to face this unknown once again?

Throughout my journey in this yogic life for enlightenment and self-actualization, I have had to conquer so many fears, both real and imagined, from my past, present and now again my future in 2008. It takes courage to overcome life’s hurdles and challenges. Am I up to that challenge? Are you up to that challenge?

On my personal spiritual journey, I have discovered there is more than one way to find the source of courage. The major question to contemplate is where and in what do you place your trust. Is your trust in something truly great beyond yourself and beyond your five senses? If your trust is in something truly great, your self of being will expand into that greatness and power of a divine source. This grace-based part to inner courage comes from opening yourself to love through contemplation, meditation and prayer. If your trust is only in your own strength, body, will and mind, you have limited your options and you will eventually let yourself down.

Depending only on yourself is a perspective founded in fear. Fear is based on the feeling of separation and smallness. Where there is an experience of your deeper being, there also exists an experience of unlimited profound strength and courage. You will find that you sense your connection to everything and to all possibilities. Therefore, you find nothing to fear.

We can approach truth through a devotional acceptance and opening to “grace” like the path chosen by Mother Theresa. We can search for truth by emptying of the self through the path used by martial artists, yoga practitioners or others in the holistic arts. Both approaches take us through doors of centering, stillness, balance and surrender. The more we are in touch with the center and the great source beyond, the more we are able to touch the courage that does not rise only for enduring and overcoming times of crisis but also enables us to face the morning looking for the sun. We no longer cling to interior darkness or buried grief, but embrace the light that shines inside and reaches to the heavens. So with 2008 just a few breaths away, I want to emulate my father’s courage and to honor him and his legacy for standing up for what is right and true without bitterness and with faith and hope for a brighter tomorrow.

Thank you, Daddy. I love you!

I wish all the readers of The Pulse and my column a glorious Holiday Season. May 2008 bring you peace and joy! May all your dreams come true!

Daisy Villa is a local yoga teacher. She is an advocate for health, wellness and for our environment. She believes in the wonder and goodness of the human spirit and that each individual’s honest efforts count and make a positive impact on themselves and the world.

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