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I just spent the weekend at the Yoga Journal conference in NYC. All I can really say is, wow. I am full of mental information and physical transformation and spiritual vibration. I wanted to share especially about Patricia Walden’s class, “Cultivating a Fierce Heart and Willpower.”
An Iyengar teacher who has been studying yoga since the 1970s, Walden has such an enormous amount to offer. Yesterday she taught on how to create confidence and inner stability not by force, but by allowing the inner self to come through, to have a “willpower that comes from the heart.”
Some ways to do this that I got from her class:
1) The body is a mirror of the mind and vice versa. You don’t have to be a yogi to know that good posture shows confidence. But the idea that good posture can actually BUILD confidence, is something I’m finding really helpful. Slouching creates “density” and “darkness”; lifting up “creates light and warmth.” Press your spine into your sternum to rise up and drop the shoulders. Let your heart rays through.
2) Even gentle backbending poses can help build courage and boldness.
3) Inversions–and this includes just folding at the waist and hanging over your legs–can help you conquer your fears.
4) You can reorient your brain’s mood by looking up. Looking downward brings the mood down; when you’re in need of a lift, try simply looking toward the sky.
Has yoga helped build your confidence or ease your fears? How?
[Image via: http://www.yoga.com/www/patriciawalden/About%20Patricia.html]
posted May 19, 2009 at 11:09 pm
YOGA DOES A LOT OF HELP TO CONQUER FEAR AND CAN PROVIDE INNER STRENGTH
AND ATTRACTS THE POSITIVE ENERGY THAT MAY HAVE BURRIED DEEP WITHIN
US.WHEN WE MAKE TIME TO DO THE YOGA,WE EVENTUALLY MAKING TIME TO
BALANCE OUR THOUGHTS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE A SANE AND RIGHT DECISION
THAT IS SUBSTANTIALLY NECESSARY TO SOLVE ANY PROBLEM.THERE ARE DIFFERENT PROBLEMS WE FACE AND WILL ENCOUNTER IN THE FUTURE,THERE WERE
ALSO SETS OF SOLUTIONS THAT RUNS TO MIND,BUT DETERMINING WHICH SOLUTION WE NEED TAKING IS ESSENTIAL TO SOLVE A PROBLEM.WE NEED CONCENTRATION BY THE ACT OF YOGA TO HELP US COME UP WITH AN APPLICABLE
SOLUTION IN EVERY SITUATION THAT WEIGHS US DOWN.BUT MOST OF ALL,INCLUDE MEDITATION OF THE WORD OF GOD IN OUR DAILY LIVES,THE POWER
OF THE WORD OF GOD IS A DOUBLE EDGE SWORD THAT PENETRATES EVEN TO THE
BONE MARROW.THANKS VALERIE,JUST SIMPLY LOOK UP AND ABOVE THERE IS GOD
WHO IS LOOKING UPON US.THANK YOU.
posted October 12, 2010 at 1:15 pm
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