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First Practice Back at Home

Wednesday, November 22, 2017
This morning is the first chance I've gotten since arriving back home to hit my mat and practice.

I'm still settling back into my routine with work, relationships, physical exercise, and eating properly.  Tomorrow is Thanksgiving so I'll eat as balanced as I can today.

Physically, I'm feeling well with a little bit of GI noise going on.  I ate trashy for a few days and I've paid for it with low energy.

I'm going to practice this morning with zero expectations of how the practice "should" be; I'm just going to move through it and let whatever happens, happen.

Wednesday, November 22, 2017 (Part II)
Control is a good thing.  You need to have control over your brain, your thoughts and emotions, your reactions to things, and your physical body.

Too much control can change into stubbornness which prevents you from evolving. 

My control over myself is one of my crowning glories, but I let go of that control this morning and let my practice (and subsequently myself) be however it was going to be. 

I let all of the things in my life that get me down (there's not many), flow through my mind and through my body.  While they were around me, I didn't dwell on them, but I took notice of them, and then offered them up to God; that's probably the best advice I've ever received from my Catholic religion. 

After you let the things that make you blue flow through you and around you without trying to change them, you can actually see them for what they are:  Small, non-existent (at times), and easily solvable.

I'm going to take this version of myself out into the world today to share.

Namaste

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