Alice is going to try yoga. She has been hearing so much about how good yoga is so for you, but she is anxious about learning yoga. It’s a new place with people she does not know and they do strange things there like stand on their head and put their legs in strange places. […]
You have gone to the gym for years taken all kinds of aerobic classes and that has never caused you to change your eating habits. So how can yoga change your eating habits? What is so different about yoga? Increased awareness of your body Yoga is different from other forms of exercise because it increases […]
The tennis match has been going on for a while now. Alice checks the scoreboard. She sees that she is slightly ahead, but her opponent is a tough one. They have not given up. They keep coming back. They have been returning her serves with precision and it is all she can do to win […]
Alice is getting ready for work. The lunches for the kids are already made. She has checked her email to make sure that there are no more crises. Alice has already canceled her yoga practice because her husband is unable to take their oldest child to music class tonight. Now it is time to get […]
Has this ever happened to you? Your phone goes off and suddenly you are in a panic. Where is that phone. You need to see who was trying to reach you. Is there an important news update that you need to know about. Where is that phone. You put it down just a moment ago. […]
Carol S. Dweck in here book “Mindset – The new psychology of Success” talks about how babies naturally have a growth mindset. Watch a baby learning how to walk. They struggle to stand up holding on to the furniture. They take a step and down they fall on their diaper. They struggle once again to […]
A crack appears in the thick skin. Suddenly the cocoon begins to move. Gradually a new creature appears. Slowly a butterfly emerges. Its wings spread wide and then it flies away. The butterfly is very different from the caterpillar that created the cocoon. A butterfly goes through three stages during its life cycle. You also […]
Bob did not realize it but his teacher was watching him. Bob was doing the modification of the Ardha Baddha Padma Pashimottanasana (one leg in half lotus forward fold) that the teacher had given him a few weeks ago pretty well lately. Until recently it had been a real struggle to complete even this modification. […]
Alice is about to go in for her annual physical check up. She is wondering if the same thing is going to happen to her that happened to her friend Betty. When Betty went in for her checkup she found out that she was almost an inch taller than she was last year. This was […]
It is time to go. But it is snowing outside. It does not make any difference. You made the commitment, and now it is time to go. Besides your companion is just itching to get out the door and get started on the nightly walk that you do together. The two of you have been […]
