If you are practicing yoga, you better get used to Practicing Patience.
Inhale. Patience.
Pause. Patience.
Exhale. Patience.
Patience is slow.........
and I know how you might feel about that because I have been guilty of the same.
Let's face it, not every day on your mat is a fireworks display.
There can be long periods without visible progress or growth. Without patience, your practice could feel repetitive or empty. Because Practicing Patience is slow, it can feel counter intuitive to goal achievement (especially in our culture) where some marketing person is constantly telling you that there's a better, faster, easier way. Don't believe the hype!
Practice & Patience are key. Here's why:
1. Yoga is a practice. (which means you practice it.....over.....and over.....and over again. without fail....)
Think about this: The Beatles performed live together more than any other group in history. They had a "practice" of over 10,000 hours of experience before they ever invaded the US. (Read Outliers for more info on that 10,000 hour rule)
2. Patience is the key to accepting the space of time it takes for the "practice" to become REAL CHANGE (not just physical results) in our bodies, minds, and spirits. (Patience is the building upon building of concepts that become ingrained into our cells, our psyches, and our souls....)
Think about this:
Practicing Patience is the key to Presence.
Presence is the key to the Divine.
Patience transforms our experience of the ordinary into something sublime by increasing our Presence.......Instead of tiring of your thousandth down dog, you revel in its myriad of intricacies, how you can experience it differently every time you observe yourself in it, how it transforms your inner body landscape into spacious plains and endless horizons of possibility.
May you find peace in your practice.
May you find presence in your patience.
May your experience of life be transformed.
Shanti~
Tammie
