The Kindest Thing You Can Do For Yourself (And Everyone Else) Is Slow The Eff Down
We live in an era that moves fast, and faster now than ever before.
We live in an era that moves fast, and faster now than ever before.
What makes overcoming our most deep-seated, most internal challenges so difficult is that each of us has got a little army living inside us that’s fueled on our fears and self-doubt.
From an evolutionary standpoint, we’re wired to react to perceived threats to our survival.
Willingness to be vulnerable
There’s something easier to us about rescuing and covering for someone than there is in asking for what we want or challenging how others treat us.
What we really want is to see our forgiveness wish shredded and granted.
We might be making mistakes, but we’ve learned to coax ourselves into believing it’s right and okay to avoid dealing with them.
There is a beautiful theory that every choice produces an explosion of paths that we could go down next, and with each choice that follows, the paths we didn’t take die off and burn away while another set of paths break open in front of us like fireworks.
What’s so jarring about these places is not that they’ve changed, but rather that they’ve stayed the same, lovely and unbroken. What’s so jarring is that we’ve changed, that we’ve become hardened and scared and cold.
The beauty of yoga – and the beauty of life – is in the “practice,” not the product.