Day 67
Hi!
I was talking with my yoga teacher last week and telling him that I wanted a yoga set that was a bit shorter. I was having trouble making the time to do it every day and could I do something that was shorter. We talked about some of my resistance to doing it everyday and what I might be needing to learn from all this. Then he said the magic words – “sure, we can change what you’re doing – we can shorten it, or even give you a completely new set of exercises to do – just let me know what you want to do.” Wow, some choice (I realize I have always had a choice, I was just trying to maintain the integrity of the yoga set by not varying it)! Guess what happened next? I decided to keep doing what I was doing! Suddenly, it doesn’t seem to take so long and when I thought about not doing it, I felt like I would miss it! It’s funny how when my teacher gave me permission to stop or change what I was doing, I chose to continue. Interesting how we can put up our own resistance and get in our own way and someone simply has to say – you are welcome to change it – and everything flows again! Eckhart Tolle says “all stress comes from resistance to the present moment” and I believe I have had a good experience of that with this yoga challenge. How about you? Any resistance to your challenge?
Deb