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Yoga Thinking to Improve a Bad Week

Written by: Sandy Kingsley

Article Overview: You can get beyond frustration, anger, sadness and other difficult feelings by observing what is happening in your mind and with your feelings. It is pretty simple to liberate yourself!

Yoga Thinking to Improve a Bad Week

"If you feel bound, you are bound. If you feel liberated, you are liberated. Things outside neither bind nor liberate you; only your attitude towards them does that." From the Yoga Sutras.

I've been reading this quote to my yoga students all last week. It is powerful in its truth; a reminder that we all have choices to make around what we attach ourselves to, what stories we make up and live out for ourselves. I love the quote, and yet sometimes this reminder really irritates me..."So" I think to myself, "I'm already feeling down, and now I have to acknowledge that that is my fault too?!!" Ugh, with all the responsibilities that we have already, do I really want to accept that one as well?

I mean, sometimes you are having one of those days, or weeks, when trying to replace the difficult feelings with happy thoughts is just not within your grasp. Know what I mean?

But here is the thing: the message is not, well just don't feel what you are feeling! The message, as I see it, is actually this: if you just sit with those feelings, acknowledge they are there, and also acknowledge that you are not your feelings, you are not your thoughts, then this really cool thing happens. Those uncomfortable feelings or thoughts begin to loosen their grip. Really, try it! You can create space between you and them, and then miraculously, you begin to feel better.

And then you can acknowledge gratitude for yourself, in taking responsibility for your own liberation. How cool is that?

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Article Tags: anger, feelings, frustration, sadness, yoga



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