Do you ever get evenly slightly discouraged even after a really great yoga session? Has there ever been a time where you lie in savasana and after some time realize that your body is slightly out of alignment? Do you feel that all of that hard work during your class has left you feeling a "new normal" but as soon as you get back into your car or wake up the next morning, you are back to your habits whether it be clenching your teeth, having negative thoughts instead of positive thoughts or allowing some of your frustrations fester in your body instead of expressing them. Well, this is me sometimes. There have been the moments where I may be lying in savasana and realize that my head is actually at an angle or feel that I am still tensing my muscles instead of relaxing them. I may have a really great yoga home practice and then something that my boyfriend says to me or does not do will have my psoas clenched so tight that it will take a long time for my body to be relaxed again.
I claim to be a yogi and really try to work on a daily basis of not so much "fixing" my problems, but I guess really changing my habits. I have gained so much awareness both in mind and my body over the last several years about who I am and what I resort to doing when I am upset or just not feeling right. I feel that I am so attune to what my mind or body will do and have been really working on taking much of my yoga practice off the mat and correcting some of my habits of behavior. But it is hard. Even if you have a habit of walking or sitting a certain way and are now aware that by changing your posture will enable you to gain more flexibility in your legs or be pain free, it is really hard for some people to change those small habits. Why is that? Is it simply because we forget? Do we feel that we have been born with this behavior and it is too late to change?
This is something that I will be exploring some more over the next couple of months. I would love to hear your feedback around this and maybe even some of your solutions. More to come soon...
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