Wise Words About Starting Over
Excerpt from Yoga Journal
Practice, Practice, Practice!
First, establish a motivation to practice starting over by observing what happens when you waste time feeling discouraged, escaping, or indulging your restless mind. In the week ahead, notice how many times you get knocked off balance when something goes wrong at work or in your personal relationships. Don't judge yourself for getting lost. Just be mindful that this is what is happening to you. If anything, be compassionate with yourself. After all, getting caught in your reactive mind is painful. Once you're able to acknowledge how much emotional energy and time you waste, you start to realize that the starting—over practice matters and that it is worth the effort it requires. You will have the aspiration, motivation, and conviction to persevere. As F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
Second, select a couple of aspects of your daily life that you want to change and begin to practice starting over. . . .
Practice, Practice, Practice!
First, establish a motivation to practice starting over by observing what happens when you waste time feeling discouraged, escaping, or indulging your restless mind. In the week ahead, notice how many times you get knocked off balance when something goes wrong at work or in your personal relationships. Don't judge yourself for getting lost. Just be mindful that this is what is happening to you. If anything, be compassionate with yourself. After all, getting caught in your reactive mind is painful. Once you're able to acknowledge how much emotional energy and time you waste, you start to realize that the starting—over practice matters and that it is worth the effort it requires. You will have the aspiration, motivation, and conviction to persevere. As F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
Second, select a couple of aspects of your daily life that you want to change and begin to practice starting over. . . .
Labels: A Good Year, yoga
posted by KLN @ 6:17 AM
3 Comments:
Oooooh I like this thinking!
I find it helpful to think of it as ' continuing' - whatever track I'm getting back on - than starting over - less tiring, to my mind. Unless it's a completely new habit I have to form...
hmmm very thought-provoking :)
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Great quote/excerpt here. And very timely, as it is well-needed.
Have a good week.
Hmmm...don't know if I agree with the "starting-over" mentality so much. Seems like "starting-over" assumes you've gone backwards to some previous spot from which you have to go forward...lots of retracing to be done & that's so darn tiring. We're never the same from one minute to the next, how can we possibly go back? I like the idea instead of "just keep going...just keep moving forward...one foot in front of the other." Happy New Year!
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