Yoga Journey: "What I have learnt SO FAR"

Hello my friends,

today´s post will deal with my reception of my so-called yoga journey and positives which I have found and identified in relation to a yoga practice. In relation to my yoga journey I would deliberately like to emphasize words "SO FAR", since this journey is an endless path without any rules and limits. Bear this carefully in your mind! 😉

When it comes to a yoga philosophy, not to hurry or not to make any unreasonable pressure on something or somebody including ourselves, are the main ideas or ideals of yoga itself. Indeed, I am very interested in this two sayings:

"Everything will come at the moment when it should come." and "Everything happens for a reason."

In fact, both of them are very meaningful to me. Since we are presumably not able to foresee such a moment or immediately understand such a reason, these sayings come to me much more believable. Nevertheless, we are supposed to believe that that moment will come and also that that reason will be uncovered and understood once a reasonable amount of time has passed.

Enough words, let's forward to the above mentioned positives. 😇

Outside body changes

One would be a completely crazy if he thought that yoga is just about stretching, breathing, meditation and therefore overall boring. This is a complete common misconception in relation to yoga practice that I usually hear about. On the contrary, I personally consider yoga as a complex serie of exercises that helps to form a body, to build muscles, to strenghthen a core and what is the most important, to build an inner muscle strength along with a muscular bodyshape. Well, just give a try to plank variations, warriors I, II, III, the chair, and so on... while toning muscles, you will sweat like a donkey in a trunk! 😋

Inside body changes

Yoga provides you with not only visible body changes since yoga also significantly firms your joints and tendons that contribute to your overall health condition in a long term period. Supported by severel researches, practising yoga may eliminate problems with spine, neck, when, of course, is practising correctly. Once you start practising you will gradually realise your body posture, when sitting, walking, standing, waiting etc. This leads to a consciousness of benefits that are found in simple movements and their importance and impact on a daily life.

Thinking

Our acts are as a visible peak of a glacier of our thoughts. This point is undoubtedly much more signnificant than previous ones. Personally, I struggle quite often with my own opinions and my chart of values. Everybody talks about a success, aims, an education, money, houses, cars, Iphones, losing weight, a beaty, muscles, etc. Disregard of the strong pressure that society nowadays creates on individuals, a finding yourself seems as difficoult as a looking for a needle in a haystack. Furthermore, until you do not realise what the success truly means to you, when  you will listen to the others and compare yourself to the others, you will just live a life of the others. Of course that to look like a Victoria Secret´s model must be great, also driving a lamborghini must be exciting, as well as being admired and receive compliment by compliment could not be so bad. Although these things can be cool, they do not automatically guarantee an inner satisfaction. Furthermore, once you reach the top, you want to get another high top or eventually you get disappointed regardless of the prior achievement because there is nothing higher. On the other hand, when practicing yoga you can hide into an unique shelter, your mind. Just by closing eyes, concentrating at a breath and focusing on an inhale and an exhale. Either you let your thoughts go away or you think about nice things such as a family, relationships, a boyfriend, either way, you find calm and relief. It does not matter what somebody else talks, thinks nor how he looks. In your inside is no space for comparing. ...and maybe even once we understand, how small we are and it is not our temporal body and belongings that matter.

 

Point of view

According to some researches your overall mood is directly related with your health and both of them depend on your point of view. Being grateful for simple things, for a possibility to get up in the morning, have a roof over your head, have food, have close people around or a pet friend, or just a perfectly stylish smoothie bowl for a bearkfast, whatever you can recall. This sounds as a cliché nevertheless a focusing an attention on positives in your life and what you basically already have in your life instead of what you miss and madly wish for is last but not least the way to live happily ever after. I have always been a person who appreciates small things like getting flowers, enjoying a raw cake or healthy food, and I have always been pretty grateful for such happy moments. Nevertheless yoga helps me to focus on positives in my life and to be aware of what I have already reached, not focusing on fails and failures and what I desperately miss (or potentionaly could miss) in my life. This is all about the point of view. To feel the moment, to be aware of the moment and to be grateful for the moment, because whether you believe or not, "the moment" will never repeat.

Let me comments, should you have any experience with the impact of yoga on your life.

With lots of love! 💖