I just finished yet another yoga workout whilst listening to a yoga podcast. I still find it incredibly challenging to do the final pose -- shavasana -- the pose of total relaxation. Thoughts scurry around my mind like marbles inside a shoe-box or beetles in an otherwise empty bowl. And then I start to get anxious about everything not yet done in my life, and I find it impossible to justify these minutes doing 'nothing' when I haven't earned them. I haven't accomplished enough that I deserve to lie in corpse pose letting my body relax entirely.
That is my defeatist, self-fulfilling attitude. Which sucks.
So, today I will remember to breathe, and try not to feel like I am a beetle in a bowl or a marble in a shoe-box. I will let their accompanying anxieties fall away. Today I will deport myself as if I could be a success.
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