I recently added stretching and yoga to my morning routine.
For a bunch of months I’ve been paying for a smartphone application loaded with body weight and yoga routines. Until last week they did not move me. I’d become incredibly stiff and so I thought it’s time to put it to good use.
It all began 13 days ago with lightly stretching my extremely short, tight, tense muscles, bones and connective tissues. Nearly a fortnight of daily stretching and yoga poses and they are finally getting some length back. I have so far to go!
However it’s not just my physical flexibility that is increasing, my mental and emotional states are limbering up as well.
We struggle when any of these aspects of our well-being are out of balance or our spiritual needs are left unfulfilled. I wrote a post a few months back where I talk about the old stone blocks of the Legislature. They are a metaphor for the rigidity of the work inside. Fixing the deep flaws of our society and the addressing the existential threat to our planet, curing its sickness, starts with looking at my own exterior and interior. Each day is another opportunity to align the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual elements of myself so I can show up to be a key contributor, rather than a bystander.
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