The imprints of everything we’ve done, said, thought, lived. It all leaves a mark. The reactions we have to certain people, the way we deal with stress, our exercise routine, our eating habits.
These things become indelible marks and our reactions are the pathways we’ve permitted our brains to create, to respond.
My yoga teacher training last year finally have a name for something I’ve been working on. Trying to change old habits.
Today, that meant smiling as I climbed the (small) mountain. It meant being thankful for what I have as I walked down the mountain.
Daily, it means saying a lot less polluting information. Trying to avoid idle gossip, talking about others. Working on finding positives in every situation, in each person. In daily moments, trying to unclench my tightened stomach, breathe into the emotion, and see the joy when I can let it all go, even for just a minute.
The Chinese doctor, quite unsurprisingly, has attributed my stomach issues to stress. I’ve been paying attention to what that stress feels like in my insides. It makes them feel continually clenched. So I’m trying to breathe more and deeply to work out some of the samskara stored there.
2 Comments
October 24, 2009 at 1:11 pm
YOU GO GIRL! You can totally do it :]
October 28, 2009 at 5:11 am
Changing old habits is so hard but………you can’t do it if you don’t know what the habits are. So the journey begins with just a single step?