day fourteen - getting out of my own way
my biggest obstacle sometimes . . . is me.
you see, sometimes i take too much time to think, to consider, to decide, to choose. i hesitate. and within those moments i hesitate, i debate me and i doubt me. stubbornly standing in my own way of making any progress.
lets face it - i'm not alone. just take note next time your in a yoga class. ever take so long to get yourself into a pose, that by the time you finally get there - its already over?
you look around. you putz. you fidget. you try this. you try that. we're all so stinkin' careful and cautious, that by the time our little analysis is over, so is the pose.
today, my teacher described it best. he suggested that instead of studying for the perfect pose - then assuming it, do it the other way around. simply assume the pose first. then, over time - grow into it.
the other day, i fell (o.k. - more like, crashed!) coming up from a back bend. not because my legs were weak. not because my back was stiff. the only reason i fell was because half way there, i had second thoughts. and i stopped. nothing stopped me - I stopped me.
its not the first time i have tripped myself up either . . . and i don't just do it on my mat.
its time for me, in many ways, to start getting out of my own damn way. stop studying my jump back - and do it. nip that little delay i insert when i come to stand from wheel. and quit trying to always get it right - and just try getting it at all!
today is day fourteen - and today, i will simply step aside.
you see, sometimes i take too much time to think, to consider, to decide, to choose. i hesitate. and within those moments i hesitate, i debate me and i doubt me. stubbornly standing in my own way of making any progress.
lets face it - i'm not alone. just take note next time your in a yoga class. ever take so long to get yourself into a pose, that by the time you finally get there - its already over?
you look around. you putz. you fidget. you try this. you try that. we're all so stinkin' careful and cautious, that by the time our little analysis is over, so is the pose.
today, my teacher described it best. he suggested that instead of studying for the perfect pose - then assuming it, do it the other way around. simply assume the pose first. then, over time - grow into it.
the other day, i fell (o.k. - more like, crashed!) coming up from a back bend. not because my legs were weak. not because my back was stiff. the only reason i fell was because half way there, i had second thoughts. and i stopped. nothing stopped me - I stopped me.
its not the first time i have tripped myself up either . . . and i don't just do it on my mat.
its time for me, in many ways, to start getting out of my own damn way. stop studying my jump back - and do it. nip that little delay i insert when i come to stand from wheel. and quit trying to always get it right - and just try getting it at all!
today is day fourteen - and today, i will simply step aside.
Posted by peg mulqueen at 3/10/2009 11:55 AM 
Categories: 40 days of yoga, discovery
Tags: yoga peg mulqueen
Categories: 40 days of yoga, discovery
Tags: yoga peg mulqueen
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