What can you expect when you begin a spiritual practice?

I am a Yoga Instructor. I teach a public class every week at a local joint called Now Yoga Club. 

I had a class last night with some newbies to the yoga practice! It was a small group of gals.. they were about a week into it. I felt the need to mention.. When you start a yoga practice, at about the 3 month mark, shifts begin to happen. That’s what I LOVE about the yoga practice.. It’s transformative. The aim of the game is liberation through self-realization.

This is the spiritual part of the practice. The ego begins to shake, and slip off bit by bit!

So many people will stop going around this time. They fall out of the practice.. it’s a subtle shift for some.. for some it’s radical!

What I imagine is happening is, the truth is beginning to surface.

The truth can be scary to the many masks of the ego.

So ego talks you out of continuing the new habit you are forming to improve your life.

This happens with many things, simply because the brain likes what is familiar.. 

 

There’s comfort in the familiar.

But what if you don’t like what is familiar to you?

What if you want change, but keep reverting back to the old familiar?

 

That’s when you make your commitment, you commit to yourself, to keep getting back on the path, no matter what takes you off.

Eventually you will be more on the path, than not.

Eventually you will find that you will slip off, and it will be expected, it’s not that big of a deal, and you also expect to get back on the path just as easily.

 

If you go, and expect to be 100% perfect, all the time, you are setting yourself up to sabotage the work.

 

Be human.

Allow yourself the grace to mess up, but ALWAYS, get back up.

My girls=My WHY!