Who has that irritating inner voice critic that’s trash-talking everything you do, that keeps talking about all the things you SHOULD be doing, or not doing, or be able to do! Super annoying right? And in our yoga practice – utterly unhelpful!
In yoga class, we get to practice stepping out of being in the middle of the inner-voice-trash-talking dramatics and instead observe with an eyebrow cocked, our arms folded and a look of “ahhhh…. That ‘should’ thought again, eh? Well, actually, sorry to disappoint you but today I’m filing you under ‘fake news’ and listening to the expert – my body.” That’s right, we try to step out of those thoughts about what we should or should not be able to do. Ignore the comparisons with that person over there and the wondering of why we don’t look like that when we do the posture. We roll our eyes at the inner criticism about our right leg ‘not being able to’ do something the exact same as the left leg. We rest awareness on the breath, and on how movements and postures feel in the body.
Because our yoga practice is about developing the confidence and ability to empower ourselves to make good decisions about how to practice our yoga, based on how we feel, while practising, on that particular day. We are developing self-acceptance and … self-love.
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