One moment I'm up, the next moment I'm down. One moment I feel so powerless in a system, a government, that appears to be increasingly designed to make it's people lethargic and dependent on it. I see the deaths, the hate crimes, the sexism in our society and it makes me cringe with desperation and anger. I feel so powerless to stop it. The only way to ease the pain is to further the hate and increase the negativity.
There are points in yoga that actually make me feel a certain way. They must be triggering a gland to release a certain hormone, because a stretch can make me want to cry, a bend can make me feel elated, powerful. A sequence can give me life again, breathing through me.
I can feel anxious,powerless,dispairing, hoplessness, emptyness, hopefullness, elation, empowered, numb, bland, excited, happy, tired, energized, peaceful, calm, and everything else imaginable all throughout 1 day. The only thing I can do throughout these rapidly changing emotions is take them in, breathe them in, appreciate them, and let them go.
Especially as women, I think that we don't appreciate our emotions enough! We've been given this beautiful gift of connection and sensitivity to the spiritual world and it's there to deepen our experience of life. Sometimes we don't understand those feelings but I don't think we always need to. Sometimes they are just there for us to 'feel.'We just gotta "take them in, breathe them in, appreciate them, and let them go." I love that idea & loved reading this.
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