April 14, 2008

Day 67

Filed under: 100 Day Challenge — Deb @ 8:48 pm
Day 68
Day 61 - 66!

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

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