Embrace More

As I said before in my previous post I spoke to Dorothy last night about how we are so hard on ourselves. She wishes she wasn’t so tall while I am hoping to be a little bit taller. We want ourselves to be what we aren’t which we need to embrace what we have and who we are. I know that I have said many times how I wish my hair was long and thick, that I was a little bit skinnier, had smaller boobs, wish I was creative like so and so or gorgeous like that girl. And you know the truth is…I’m never going to have long, thick hair and I’ll always be short. The thing is we…are so different from the next person on the street so why don’t we embrace it?

As I’m starting a new semester teaching my yoga classes I want my students to never get discouraged with themselves. I have said over and over again that no two bodies are the same, everybody is going to look and they are going to feel these positions differently from their neighbor. I emphasize that our yoga practice is for us and us only.

I believe that we need to appreciate ourselves just a little bit more everyday, to stop comparing ourselves to other people in our yoga classes, in our work and in our everyday life. I want all of us, me included to recognize that we are different from everyone and let’s give a little hip hip hooray for our uniqueness. Let’s give a little cheer for being who we are and how different we are from one another. Let’s simply embrace ourselves just a little bit more.