Like all hard-core yogis, I get
up at 4:30 a.m. every day and hit the yoga mat for a couple hours … and
you should too!
If you’re like most people, you work more than you want to.
After picking the kids up from practice, grabbing a few groceries and
making a stop at the dry-cleaners on the way home, and it’s already
7:30 in the evening.
You’ve still gotta cook dinner, deal with the car insurance, the
laundry, and a whole list of other things that have been piling up.
The last thing you want to do when you finally collapse into your bed at midnight is set the alarm for 4:25 a.m. so you can get up and do yoga, right?
Getting up with the sun may be a blissful experience if you’ve renounced the world and are living carefree in a cave in the Himalayas, but for you and me, the folks with jobs and families, and mortgages to pay, and a zillion other things to take care of every day, it just ain’t always very practical.
Don’t get me wrong … I know for a FACT that yoga is the most
potent and powerful way to RE-GAIN a SANE LIFE … To simplify the
craziness, and to bring back some peace and harmony into the chaos that
has become your life.
But you can’t go from 100 miles per hour to a full stop just like that!
(not without crashing into a brick wall, which, well … would be messy!)
The same goes with yoga.
Don’t try to get up two hours earlier tomorrow. Just
get up 10 minutes earlier. Then …
That’s a whole lot better than jumping out of bed and right
into your “list of things to do today” mode, isn’t it?
… After even just of few days of this, you’ll be surprised how much
easier it becomes to get up even earlier and practice more yoga…
… And the better you’ll start to feel too!
And here’s a real shocker: When you START YOUR DAY feeling GOOD, then
everything else just seems to run a little bit smoother for the rest of
the day.
Go Figure!
Remember, with anything new, the hardest step is always the
first one. Once you make it, moving forward is a piece of cake!
Start slow, but most importantly ... START!
Before you know it, you’ll be finding the chaos starting to subside,
and areas of your previously hectic life starting to give way, making
room for more yoga time and other health-enhancing activities.
Give it a try … you won’t regret it!
Tomorrow I’m going to help you clean away some of the old cobwebs with a simple 3-minute morning cleansing routine. You’ll be simply amazed at the healthy boost it’ll give you!
Yours in Yoga,

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