Which do you want: the pain of staying where you are, or the pain of growth?
LIVING YOUR YOGA: We all want to avoid pain. But to be alive is to have pain of some kind. Some of this pain is self-created. Sit quietly today and consider an important choice you need to make. Ask yourself which pain you want - the pain of moving through your challenge, or the pain of avoiding it.
If you've been following my blog for several months you've read about some emotional pain I've recently faced (see The Voices In My Head for an example). These were emotions that I had been suppressing because I feared the pain of experiencing them. Although at the time I thought I was "transcending" them, in an attempt to adhere to the Yoga Sutra's concept of detachment, in reality I was perhaps more affected by them than I would I have been had I just let them flow through me. To me, today's Living Your Yoga is about getting out from under the covers and actually looking at the monster under your bed. It's probably just the cat.
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