This 60-day Bikram Yoga Challenge is just one of many challenges we are doing each day, little ones, difficult ones, and ones that bring us more in alignment of who we truly are and ones separating us from who we are not.
Being a Mom challenge started roughly 22 years ago and will continue on now until I die, an endless challenge. It is a combined experience with both sides leaning on the other or challenging the other to become their best. I have seen how I can affect this challenge; how I am the change I want to see in them.
A marriage challenge has been going on now for 23 years, during which time I have grown up and then fell apart. What we learned most is that who we are and how we feel directly affects the relationship of us. Our truths and our selves highly influence the way this flows. We have rode the rough waters and sailed the smooth seas, learning along the way, our willingness to try repeatedly is amazing.
The individual challenge of just being me has been going on for 51 years, and in that time I have witnessed myself in many different roles and tasks, some more challenging than others.
And all we can do in each of these challenges is to do what is being asked of us right now.
As a day moves along, I am in the yoga challenge, then I flip into the mom challenge, then a mail lady challenge, then back to a wife for a while, then a mom, maybe an Artist, and on it goes.
How cool is that we have a multitude of things going on at one time. The challenge is to do each challenge fully and with presence, and not to get ahead of the challenges, or sit in one challenge dreaming of another, but to concentrate right here right now.
We add little pieces, fun color or dimension to all these challenges each day, building on them a little at a time.
We become like a juggler juggling the many aspects of ourselves, catching and releasing each challenge as it appears and then goes.
“Do little, but right, that is how you change your personality, your life.” Bikram
