Messages from Myself

I am startled by the negative messages I give myself while taking a yoga class.

“Oh, that leg used to be a lot stronger and not wobble, what did you do to it?“

“Why can’t I ever go further in this yoga pose, what’s wrong with me?”

“Did I wear the appropriate yoga apparel, or am I looking like I just rolled out of bed?”

But if I began watching my thoughts instead of getting caught up in them and therefore feeding them. Then I can just observe them going by.

In yogic writings, these fluctuations and waves of thoughts that disturb us are called “citta-vritti.”

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