レイチェル・ブレイセンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (レイチェル・ブレイセンInstagram)「View from my yoga mat💙 ⁣ ⁣ Woke up this morning feeling bleh... Stiff upper back, super tired, a little grumpy for no apparent reason. Yesterday was a good day and the day before was magnificent - what’s changed today? My circumstance is the same. My blessings and struggles are the same. I haven’t received any bad news, no problem to deal with, nothing specific to cloud my mood. The only thing that’s changed is my state of mind. If I’m not careful, it’s on days like today I start judging myself. I suddenly find flaws in areas where there were none, I doubt my ability to create, I begin picking myself apart. “No one is going to read my book anyway” or “I’m so out of shape” or “what if everyone hates the new podcast”. Now it’s in this, in this exact moment, just as my mind starts spinning down that self sabotaging path... That’s when I have to catch myself and pull myself back up. Immediately. For me, the best way to snap out of a funk before it grabs ahold of me is to move my body. We all have our ways; for you it might be talking to a friend, or going out in nature, or cuddling your dog. Whatever works. For me, it’s breath and movement tied together with the intention to be here, now. So I roll out my mat and I practice. Ringo joins me. It’s hard. Everything aches and I don’t know why. It takes me a long time to get to a place that feels even remotely like flow. But - I get there. It happens somewhere after my fifteenth sun salutation, but still. I get there. I’m sweating like crazy and my heart is beating in my chest but I finally settle into the familiarity of a downward-facing dog that feels like home. And I feel alive again. It takes effort, feeling alive. It takes dedication. It takes recognizing that inner critical voice when it comes my way and instead of listening to it, instead of falling into that pit of despair, using it as fuel to move the hell on with my day. ⁣ ⁣ I don’t want to numb myself anymore. I want to feel. I want to LIVE. For the rest of my life, I want to live. ⁣ ⁣ So I continue showing up. Every damn day. #practice #yogaeverydamnday」8月11日 2時35分