Today’s mantra was I release. For me this whole yoga practice is designed to be exercise, but also to destress me. It has been such good exercise and something I look forward to and prioritize (even when today’s video was 44 minutes!). But the largest challenge has to be to destress. So I took today’s mantra to I release my stress. It doesn’t seem like meditating or anything, but I destress two ways: 1) when I do something that occupys my body (like coloring) so my mind can roam and 2) when I do something that requires my entire concentration and I can’t actually think about anything else but breathing (like yoga). So as a whole, after 11 days I think I can say that it has destressed me. But the combination of yoga and art has been very good for my soul.
Today’s mantra was I trust. One of the things she stresses is to trust the video and to trust the process. The video was of a shorter length, which was okay because I had a late start to the morning and enjoy eating my oatmeal breakfast after yoga not before. For me, I had to trust that if I took it easy, it would still be okay. There’s sometimes pressure for me to push and push. But I wanted to trust her and my instincts and let go. To trust that it would be enough. Because, as she said, it’s also about conditioning the mind.