I was back in yoga class again today. (I know...go a lot. Thank You for affording me that, @Sean-King) I was rolling about on my Dharma Yoga Wheel (DYW) and enjoying how the stretch felt and loving the feeling of expansiveness that this tool helps brings to my spine…to my Full body, really. Then it hit me that a few years ago all of this DYW rolling, and many of my now favorite yoga poses, would have totally set me off for hours, or days(!), with back pain.
Then It hit me... the same thing has happened to me mentally from years of yoga practice as well! Before years of yoga practice little ole things would trigger me and set me off! For example, coat hangers...yes, freakin' coat hangers! 😆 When they used to become entangled I would get BEYOND irritated, yank them all down and throw them in the floor screaming and stomping my little feet in a fit of rage! However, when this happens now, I just sigh and smile (laughing inside at how this used to piss me off) and slowly untangle them. They're just freaking coat hangers for goodness sake! No biggie.... Or now a days if someone is a jerk to me and cuts me off in traffic or in line I just breathe, and generally feel unruffled. Before my years of yoga such moments like that could trigger anger and resentment. Setting me off for hours of irritable grumbling misery about how I was wronged...the nerve! 😡
Anyway, it's not like I took a yoga workshop on How To Not Get Pissed Off At Coat Hangers And Asshole Drivers. It just happened for me over time through the practice. 🙏🏽 Just like really deep back bends or even clasping my feet together behind my head no longer set my physical body off into spasms, stressful life triggers like a fender bender or the puppy peeling on my rug no longer set me off in a fit of rage or days of angst (not as much anyways...😉)
Grateful for this practice.
Cindy