Attention

Reading from Wednesday, July 17, 2013 yoga class

The following is from Cheri Huber:

"The voice in your head talks to you about what you believe, not what it believes.  The voice will talk to you about anything you will believe and feel bad about.  If money is an issue for you, it talks about money fears and woes and mistakes and a future of deprivation.  If you have body image issues, it will talk about how you look, compare you to others, let you know that everything wrong in your life is wrong because of the way you look.  If you have relationship issues, it will point out what wonderful relationships everyone else has, and how lacking or inferior your relationships are.  If none of the above is your issue, I'm sure you can fill in your version of the torture system.

Here's something to consider.  A good argument can be made that our lives consist of what we give our attention to.  That voice in the head wants our attention.  It lives on our attention.  Without our attention it does not, cannot exist.  We are trained to give our attention to "what's wrong."  In this way, our lives consist of "what's wrong," and the voice feeding us information about what's wrong has full control of our attention and our lives.

If you decide NOT to believe that story you're being told, if you really get it that it's not true, it's just something you've been trained to believe, then you're truly free to put your attention where you want it to be, on the life you choose to have."


Attention/Intention... I have said it many, many times... this is not only in yoga class, but in your everyday life.