Why do I go to yoga class? Answer: because I want to make significant changes in my life. I want to make my body healthy and strong. I want to make my mind strong and focused. I want to make my spirit quieter and gentler.
Nice goals. Tall order. One that can’t be accomplished overnight. For a person like me who has never had patience with time, it’s daunting.
In my life outside the studio I also have to make some big changes. After 8 months of “losing myself and finding myself again” I now have to make my way back into the person I was and enter fully back into a life I enjoyed. The first major step of moving forward is to fully “let go” of what was and embrace what is now. Again, nice goals, tall order for a person who wants to make time pass faster than it already does. Even as a child, my dad says I was “always running”. I was never content where I was. I was always looking for the next thing, even before completing the present one. These big changes I’m attempting are going to take time and have to take hold slowly. It’s going to take another 130 yoga classes to complete the metamorphosis.
The “great dilemma” is change. We want it, but we resist it. We want the benefits we know it brings, but we don’t want to do the work. My teacher said this awhile ago, but only now is the meaning becoming clear. I’m glad I’m in a class that will help me overcome the resistance and do the “work” and make the changes in my life that I know are necessary.
And so, as another day goes by, “the winds of change are blowing wild and free”, and….I have written.
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