Proven! Mind control is essential to a positive class. Today’s class was exactly like Friday. Same teacher, hot, humid morning, and…me getting nervous about a bad class. I remembered my experience Friday where my mind won and resolved not to repeat that fiasco. As soon I entered the studio I set my intention. I knew this class would be a slow pace in an extra uncomfortable room. My plan was to approach it with gentleness and utter stillness. Instead of the extra time between postures and in set-ups making me crazy, I resolved to use those extra seconds to rest and conserve energy.
It worked. I never felt overheated once and I didn’t sit out any postures. In fact, my stillness made me feel so good I felt like I danced my way through the 90 plus minutes. At the end, as I lay in savasana, I felt pretty proud of taking this by the horns and managing my mind so my body was able to perform and get what it needed.
My mind also got what it needed. It learned it doesn’t control me. Oh I may slip now and then, but I will remember how I set the intention for today’s class and executed it perfectly, never giving the mind a chance to interfere.
And so, as another day goes by, namaste, my incorrigible mind, you now know where you stand in the hot room, and…I have written.
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