Don’t Interrupt

March 19th, 2013

I admit it. I’m an “interrupter”. I just get so excited in a conversation that someone actually understands or shares the same thought, that I just can’t keep quiet about it. It doesn’t come from a place of rudeness, but nevertheless it’s annoying and something I’m consciously working on.

That’s one kind of interrupting. Last night in yoga Meg said something about interrupting that that stuck in my brain and caused me to think further. We had just finished our second camel – Bikram people know how that feels – and we were lying in savasana. Meg was cautioning us on not moving, fussing with our clothes, etc. She said, ” Lie very still. Don’t interrupt the healing.” I had a “wow” moment. Just as you have to stand or lie very still after each posture so you don’t disturb the healing taking place when the pose is over, so it is with people, too.

Sometimes you have a difficult situation with someone – one where where deep hurt occurred and trusts were broken. Those times where an “I’m sorry” or words of any kind aren’t going to matter. Healing has to take place, and it has to take place without you. If you keep trying to apologize and repair the relationship you’re constantly disturbing that healing process, just as moving in savasana impedes the blood flow to the organs or joints and that healing time is lost. In both cases, you have to begin again and the whole healing process takes longer – both for the body and the relationship.

As I lay there in that savasana the image of still water came to mind. Don’t touch it – don’t dip a finger or toe in it. Don’t disturb it. Deep healing is taking place beneath the still surface. Let it be. Let it happen. To disturb it would mean you have to wait for the water to become still again – for the ripples you caused to cease, and the healing would have to start again. This is just another example where the body works with the mind in Bikram yoga to change you as a person, as well as make you healthier.

And so, as another day goes by, through Bikram yoga I continue to grow and change in body, mind, and spirit, and….I have written.