Perfectly Imperfect by Baron Baptiste

Author:Baron Baptiste
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2016-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

What does accepting “right now” look like in a pose? When you truly experience right here, right now in your body and are aligned to the rhythm of your breath, you see it is all perfect exactly the way it is. When I am being myself, nothing more and nothing less . . . when I am present and allowing what is happening within and around me to be exactly like it is . . . when I am being in the moment instead of being fixed on where I am going . . . when I am observing it all just as it is without having to figure it out and adding any assessments or comparisons, then I observe that all is perfect.

The ability to be where you are in your body begins with your ability to respect your body. That means accepting, loving, and deeply appreciating your body’s complexity and magnificence, and being grateful for all it does for you. That also means being willing to listen to and follow your body’s cues. Once you start authentically listening and communicating with the moods, sensations, and experiences of your body, your practice becomes very easeful. Working from being where you are, not from trying to get somewhere, you can work organically with the energy and capacity available to you. You won’t need to fight with your body, or force it in any way; that just creates more tension and takes you out of flow. You don’t have to force your body to do something, because it actually wants to work for you. But all of this requires that you be right there where you are and tune into what your body needs while in the pose.

When I am in a pose, I am in a communication with my body. If I make that communication conscious and intentional, then something extraordinary can happen. In the pose there is no need to try to dominate your body. Simply listen to it. Once you really tune into it, the imbalances, holding patterns, and pockets of locked up emotion and stuck energy will begin to disappear.

Unfortunately, many people don’t really listen. In a demanding pose, the body may say, Stop. Don’t push any further. But if the default mind says, Don’t stop. You need to push harder, guess which voice gets heeded? On the mat and in life, we don’t listen to the body; the default mind too often dictates and overrides it. Case in point: Have you ever been eating and your body signals, That’s enough; you don’t need any more, while your mind says, Just a little more? We’ve all been there at one time or another. We don’t listen to the wisdom of the body and the consequence is that body gets imbalanced. Listening to your body happens in the moment as a conscious interaction.

You will be surprised that if you can relax with yourself and simply be where you are in the pose, it will give you a deeper insight into yourself.

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