Tag: 100 days

• Life can Change.

  I am just about to the new half way mark, and I am feeling excited about my body and its improvements.

   

  The experience of witnessing the effort along with the change makes you believe to the depth of your being that we are the ones to swing our lives around.

   

  While doing this active yoga, we literally breathe and put our bodies into these postures, giving it our utmost strength and attention, so daily we can see new improvements, slight changes in strength balance and in flexibility, how this yoga is changing us from the inside out.

   

  There is a new relationship being born, one where we are an active participant with this body.  If we can form new will power by slowly going in and out of the poses, if we can manifest new discipline, imagine where we can use this in our everyday life?

   

   I am beginning to see the powerful reactive live thing this body is, and how it responds to the attention I am giving it, it can’t help but be stronger if I am working on those muscle each day.

   

  My body and I are forming a new relationship, instead of me being lazy and expecting the body to go along and be healthy without me, I am slowly turning that boat around until I am leading the body.

   

  In my past, my neglect showed up in my body, except I saw it as the body’s fault, not mine.

   

  If my attention and great kindness allows this body to flourish, then so did my inactiveness allow it to crumple and be out of shape figuratively and physically; I am the common denominator in my health and in my sickness. 

   

  My awareness of this is huge, for without it I blame a body that can’t get fit without me bringing it to the mat, to the postures and beginning.

   

  I am the keeper of the gate; I open the door and close it.  For 48 days I opened the door and joined Bikram for 90 minutes.

   

  As long as I open the gate, life can change.

   

   

  February 17, 2010

  100 days, bikram yoga, change, common denominator, gatekeeper., lazy relationship

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• I have just begun.

  Just two weeks to go in completing the 60-day challenge, and I am quite sure I am changing it to the 100-day challenge.

   

  Mary Jarvis says, “Day 60 -90, your body shape seems to suddenly change at an exponential rate, though you may not notice.  These are the days when you start to hear all the “Wow, you look great!  What are you doing?” comments.  These 30 days are usually your best 30 days.” 

   

  So I am thinking if I stop at 60, I will miss the best days of all, like walking out without dessert. 

   

  I will go along as far as I can, but my sights are now on 100.  In two weeks I will begin the best 30 days, I have just two weeks left to unravel and unknot emotional twists and things that have held me hostage.  And then my body should adjust and open and change quickly now that there isn’t anything inside holding it back.  I can’t wait to see what 100 days will do.  I will then take pictures again. 

   

  It will be interesting to see how much my body changes in 100 days of Bikram!

   

  Inside I am happy I am not done, or almost done, for I don’t look done or act done or feel done, I feel like I have just begun!

   

   

  February 15, 2010

  100 days, Bikram, body changes, life changes, Mary Jarvis, Yoga

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