___ before you act

Maybe thinking is overrated.

When I’m looking through a restaurant menu, I imagine myself eating the different meals.  Am I in the mood for spicy?  I imagine the feel and taste.  I do this until I find a meal that feels right, and then I order it.

For several weeks now, I’ve been thinking about the next bend in my yoga teaching future.  Thinking and thinking and thinking.  “Think before you act” was getting me nowhere except for more thinking.  

There I was, frozen in thought, until a friend started asking about how I was feeling.  I talked about how the forced change made me feel, and I started exploring how a new change might feel.  Like at the restaurant, I had to put myself in the different yoga futures, trying them on and imagining how they each might feel.  And just like that, I thawed enough to start taking a few baby steps.

“Feel before you act” turned out to be much better for me.   Yoga would say that the imagining and the feeling helped me reconnect with my life-force, my prana energy.  I’m not sure if I’m feeling the full stream of energy yet, but there is definitely some movement starting to happen. I don’t feel frozen in thought. I feel like I can begin to act.

Until next time,

Laura