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So there I am in my yoga class wondering why I never stretched before, even after 30 years of playing soccer games. I'm not happy. My left leg is quivering like Jello and my right leg is starting to fall asleep as I breathe and listen to my thoughts passing by. “If you’d have stretched after soccer you’d be more flexible like the blonde in front of you.
Hmmm…….. Blonde in front of me, Stop staring!. Be a real yoga man and focus on the stretch in your left leg. You know the one that feels like your ligaments might be pulled right off the bone…. Okay, thanks for sharing Jason – now take another breath.”
And that’s when it happens…a few moments of total bliss. My mind goes quiet, my body sinks into the pose, and I breathe into serenity.
And then I hear the chatter in my head start to go off again like a loud bang.
“Hey. that being totally present was awesome. Oh, I just said ‘was’, so I’m no longer there. Oh man, I’m so stupid I can’t figure out how to stay there. Who am I to teach people mindfulness?……Wow, listen to myself talk I’m like some crazy homeless person rattling off some monologue. Okay Jason, now thanks for sharing – take another breath.”………….And again I arrive into a mindful place and feel my entire soul be nourished.
Our ego has created the myth that we are worthless if we can’t stay in a mindful state all the time. This myth says that we are a “failure” if we do not arrive at “present” like a destination and change our internal location forever.
This is like beating yourself up with a proverbial celery stick after you’ve swallowed some forbidden food. It serves no purpose, except that the bored ego is wanting to entertain itself with your worries and woes.
What if you no longer challenged your ego for the noise it creates? What if you didn't reward it with worry or shame during thoughts of worthlessness? What if you were able to identify your thoughts without judgment and even thank the voice of your ego for sharing when it says something really nasty or completely ridiculous?
Monday Mindfulness
This week notice when you’re having thoughts that aren’t serving you. Get in touch with the dialogue that you’re really having inside your head and then thank it for whatever it shares.
Take a bold step forward and share with us the non-stop dialogue you're having about this article in the reply box below.
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January 29th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Greetings:
I love the Monday Morning Minute! Thank you. It always feels right on time. I use to just read it, now I listen to it—that’s better because your voice is so motivating.
I am currently in the process of revealing a new website on creativity in business. Very different from my motivation/speaking site. At times I have been paralyzed by the fear that people wont like it or get it or will, worse, think all kinds of strange things about me doing something so drastically different. The voice in my head attacks me after I create content for the newsletters to accompany it. I do and re-do per the voice in my head… finally, I was able to silence the noize and take a small step in faith and show one friend, then another, and then I really stepped out and revealed the small beginnings to my 15 year old/ gifted art student/ that is an amazing photographer and graphic design artist at a very young age. Her face lit up and there was this wonderful sound that wrrupted from her like she had just walked into Disney World…and then I knew. It was exactly what I needed to be creating at this point in my life.
It was hard… it is hard to silence the voice in the middle of the night when I am all alone. But then I remember that smile on my daughters face and her words, “Mommie, it’s so different and creative, exactly what you need!”
And then I knew it was enough! I am enough.