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Thoughts to ponder...
What does that mean? To me it means bringing awareness to everything we do.
Many of us have developed the ability to bring mindfulness to our training sessions, to our mat, whether we are practicing yoga, or pilates, and this is amazing, but with many more hours in our week spent doing things that are not training... It the during those many other hours we need to find that awareness I'm talking about how we hold ourselves when standing - in line, at work, in the shower, how we sit in the car driving to and from work, or at our desk - often for lengthy periods... We may spend 6 hours training each week, but there are 168 hours in the week, and outside of training and sleep time - there are another 113 hours in the week that we need to be "awake" for. The way we hold ourselves in the situations I mentioned, as well as the way we react during stressful times will certainly affect our posture and our therefore our movement patterns, so bringing the mindfulness to daily life as well as during your practice - whatever that may be - will also improve your practice... Is seems simple! And it can be! It starts with simply noticing your patterns - how you hold yourself, without trying to correct them initially, or analyse why you move that way. It continues with simply noticing more often... From there, we start to break these patterns... Learning how to move this human spacesuit we will be spending many years in is SO important, and I can tell you, when you learn how to breathe in it, how to move it efficiently, how to preserve energy and use just as much as necessary and where to move FROM - your mind will be blown just as much as mine - we hold a lot in, we treat our bodies fragile china We need now develop a new understanding, we need to change our focus, we need to bring in some balance, and that starts with mindfulness
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Beautifully written. The paragraph regarding "holding yourself" particularly resonated with me as I have recently been thinking about the last seven years of my life which, collectively, have caused me to "make myself smaller." By that I mean that life happens and then one day you find that your shoulders aren't so straight, or your head is a little bowed, or you slump a little in social situations. I never used to be like that. I was proud of me and I reveled in my gloriousness, (not in a narcissistic way tho).
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Author - Kelly Dalby
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