What does this have to do with that? by Anne Nayer

My amazing Sunday began with the treat of a 3 hour Yoga class with a teacher new to me and new to the island. He began by suggesting that to monitor, measure and manage in the practice of asanas (yoga postures) helps us to monitor, measure and manage challenges in our everyday lives.

To monitor is to pay careful attention, to notice what is going on (with than hamstring, shoulder, lower back). To measure is to play with moving into discomfort and then to back off and to manage is to handle the the challenges of a position with mindfulness and grace – having monitored and measured first.

As a lover of both Yoga and metaphor I appreciate the notion that paying attention, taking stock and acting based on intelligent inside information is key in life as in Yoga.

It sounds like the law of attraction in action to me and it’s the way I’ve been suggesting you deal with challenges – getting present (deep breathing brings us back to the NOW) and noticing, getting into that observational look-out to take stock and see where we are inside and out, and then finding the better feeling thought to managing what’s going on with detachment, intelligence and vision.

Don’t you love how what you learn over here works over there?
Have you ever thought about how you can apply the strengths and strategies that work in one situation to another, seemingly very different problem? What does lengthening your spine before bending have to do with your business or your relationships? How could taking 5 deep breaths in each pose apply to cooking a great meal or writing, or creating the next best thing to ?

OM Shanti.