"I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself."
Louis C.K.
The Yoga Sutras are full of direct and implied commands that
the yoga process is that…it is a process.
The only thing we really do in yoga is practice again and again. We don't really practice to
get it right because we are different every time we get on the mat. We just keep moving through it.
Don’t you love it when your kids are gurus? I have a son who is now a piano professor and a
performer. We never had to make him practice the piano. He loves to
practice. He sometimes drove us crazy with his
practicing.
He has taught me that practice is its own thing. It is its own reward. Surrendering to the process is what
works. Of course he practices to make it
perfect---he has a goal in mind but he knows he will never reach
perfection and he is cool with that. He
loves the process of moving toward it.
Think about letting go of the goal. The practice is the goal. Just process.
Using yoga as our vehicle, our metaphor---off the mat, we also practice
eating better and less than we can not concerned with the outcome. We know our bodies will change. We know that we can trust the process. If we eat less, move more, breathe and release our
stress---we will let go of our excess weight.
Let's surrender to it and love the process we are in. How fulfilling would that be?
Maybe we can even try on a little gratitude for having weight as an issue in this lifetime. It is so direct. It is right in front of us. So in our face!
I trust the process of life and I am safe.
Namaste!
Dean
