The Three Parts of Awkward Pose
Jeff said something interesting in class today about awkward.
He said that the first part of awkward works the outer part of the thighs and you should feel it.
In the second part you work right through the center of your thighs down through your toe.
In the third part you are working the inner part, and you shouldn't just squeeze your knees together but you should seal it all the way up your inner thighs.
Abraham Maslow's Advice on Becoming Self-actualized and Living a Life of Meaning
You need to do two things:
1. Become independent of the good opinion of other people.2. Become detached from the outcome.
Studio
One of the things I like about practicing yoga at the studio is that everyone is equal. You leave your old roles behind with your clothes in the change room. No one is above or better than any one else. Instead, we practice together, each of us working with our own bodies, our own issues. We practice together and share our energy. By the end we are all sweaty and we may look a little flushed and disheveled, but we RADIATE BEAUTY.
Wayne Dyer and Hafiz
Wayne Dyer quoting the great poet Hafiz:
“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth - ‘you owe me.’
Just think of what a love like that can do...
It lights up the whole world.”
Yoga Posture vs. Ego Posture
I love this.
I love how he talks about "the edge" and how one uses consciousness to neither fight nor flight...
My Mantra
You could think of these as New Year's Resolutions or Things I'm Working On.
Do less
Slow down
Be present
Single task
Limit information intake
I've grabbed these from this website:
Willpower
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/the-willpower-trick/
The reason our resolutions end in such dismal fashion returns us to the single most important fact about human willpower — it’s incredibly feeble. Consider this experiment, led by Baba Shiv, a behavioral economist at Stanford University. He recruited several dozen undergraduates and divided them into two groups. One group was given a two-digit number to remember, while the second group was given a seven-digit number. Then, they were told to walk down the hall, where they were presented with two different snack options: a slice of chocolate cake or a bowl of fruit salad.
How Yoga can wreck your body
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/magazine/how-yoga-can-wreck-your-body.html?...
“Is this yoga?” he asked as we sweated through a pose that seemed to demand superhuman endurance. “It is if you’re paying attention.”
My philosophy
haha, I wrote this a couple of nights ago while I was taking a train
home at night, drunk:
1. Don't try to prove yourself to anyone,including yourself.
improve. This is being in the present moment.
I still believe this, even while sober.
