What I love about kids and being young is that innate curiosity about life. The wonder and excitement for discovering the ways things work and the ways things change every day. Yesterday my almost 15-year old said last week he spent about fifteen minutes in gym class looking at the bone that sticks out at his wrist joint. He just kept looking at it and moving his hand and arm around seeing how it got larger and smaller and realized he had never noticed it before.
As a parent I could have been alarmed. But I’ve consciously cultivated this sense of wonder in him since he was very young. When I was a kid my grandmother said “curiosity killed the cat.” That was a clear message. Curiosity could get you into trouble, even get you killed. Really?!
So often as adults we subconsciously adopt these silly sayings and embody them. They inhibit us and become “self-limiting beliefs.”
With your yoga practice, can you flip that around. Can you approach it with wonder and curiosity and not put limits on what you can and cannot do? Can you just move thorough the poses with ease and see what happens, just for the time in your practice?
Try it this week during your practice. Leave the limits behind. Summon up all your curiosity and wonder and bring it to class. Be amazed at how your body can move and celebrate what you can do, letting it all unfold with ease. Let me know what you discover.
Be well…it’s a state of mind.
Alice Dommert
deliver me wellness
alice@delivermewellness.com
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