Bionic Teutonic

Happy New Years! As somebody on the radio said today, it’s a perfect time for getting a gym membership you will never use:) I will admit that I’ve gone through the exercise of making a few new years resolutions and am trying to enact a few changes, which feels a little bit cliched, but whatever. My yoga teacher had a great thought she imparted the other day that I’m trying to incorporate into my resolutions, which is that the new year always seems to be this time when people decide they are going to be different than they were last year. Somehow, we seem to focus on the things we are doing that we want to change and the ways in which we are not adequate. Our teacher had us actually write out some things that we felt were already good qualities we had or that other people tell us we have and then suggested that we focus on just doing more of that. The yoga center I go to does a lot of work with kids that have disabilities (autism, physical disability, etc), and one of the core tenets is that you build on what’s already there. As my teacher said, it’s the idea that we are already all the things we want to be. We each have anger and peace, patience and impatience, etc and if we focus on giving support to those good qualities we already have, the rest of it sort of falls into place. I really like that thought. Does that make me a hippy?

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