Two separate things I would like to share today. The first is not super-positive but still positive in a way, and the second is super-positive.
Today, I went to yoga at lunch time for an hour-long practice. I was feeling pretty apprehensive since it was my favorite teacher teaching. (I know, that sounds backward, but it's true!) I told him so when I saw him outside the yoga studio and he asked me how I was. "Apprehensive." lol
Okay! Long story short, I made it through practice alive, although I did have to stand in mountain pose a few times while the others actually followed the teachers instructions. :p We did quite a few heart-opening poses and, although we didn't do the camel, which is usually my downfall, we did enough other stress-releasing poses that after the practice the dam broke and I started crying. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I used to do this all the time at the end of Greg's classes, but that was three years ago, when my troubles were tenfold what they are now. I am no longer agonizing about my kids, who at the time were kidnapped by their father. I am also feeling a lot safer than in 2009, when the police came looking for me to warn me that my husband was looking to have me killed. Understandably, I had a lot on my plate. Now, I still have a lot of stress factors, but nothing as bad as that. I mean, I have my three kids. The rest is just details, right? :o)
Actually, I feel really good now. The way I see it, I have let some of the stress out, so now I'm not so full of it any more. So I would like to recommend to everyone who is stressed to do some yoga, especially poses that open the abdominal area below the navel. People tend to keep stress in that area and it is good to stretch it and release the tension. The camel pose is a very good pose for that. Here's what it looks like:
If you can't lean on the soles of your feet, you can just put hour hands on your lower back. I find that actually helps the stretch because then I can push out on my abdomen from behind. Try it! :o)
The second thing that happened to me today was that I put some music on as I was working and I got goosebumps. lol It may not seem like a big thing to you guys, but when something moves me I get goosebumps. Be it a touching scene in a movie or the sound of an instrument or a certain lyric, I get goosebumps on my arms when I feel the... passion. (for want of a better word) So this afternoon I was open enough to let the good stuff in and I thoroughly enjoyed the music. (It was the Hawksley Workman song Ice Age. I am listening to the The Battle of 77 by the Sunparlour Players right now.)
It feels so good to let the music wash over me. I am happy. I wonder if I would have this reaction if I hadn't had my yoga practice earlier...
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