YOGA

Tonight I went to Yoga.  After a couple of years of being fairly active I have let it all slide, sliding food on to my plate and sliding out of strength training.  Recently I revisited "gentle yoga" it has been a humbling thing to see really where my body is at, before I sorta in my mind mocked it because what good does it do, how many calories are getting burned, where's the sweat, and my most favorite criticism only "granola" types do yoga.  Positioned on the lavender mat doing "gentle" positions my body and I were having a conversation, mostly consisting of me telling it to buck up, me questioning its ability to take me where I need to be me being critical of me.  Then something shocking happened, I started to cry. Anyone who knows me knows the crying isn't the shocking part, it was just that at that moment I was so frustrated with my lack of coordination and my excessive shape that just kept making it hard, then the teacher said "Just let it go" whatever expectations you have for your body right now let it go.  Concentrate on breathing.

Inhale deep
Exhale sigh and let it go. 

The things you hold onto that are not necessary take up space and create excessive shape in your brain.  They fill you mind and heart with worry. 

Inhale deep
Exhale sigh and let it go.

Criticisms of yourself and others take up space, crowding and pushing, creating excessive shape.

Inhale deep
Exhale sigh and let it go.

".... I can't tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open spacious life.  We didn't fence you in.  The smallness you feel comes from within you.  Your lives aren't small, but your living them in a small way.  I'm speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection.  Open up your lives.  Live openly and expansively."
1Cor 6:11-13 MSG

Inhale deep
Exhale sigh and let it go.

Concentrate on breathing through it all, God has got you.