If you’ve been with me since I started Braving Infertility, I always say that yoga helped me stay calm through all the ups and down of IVF.
My practice gave me a lot of tools that gave me the space to grow and shift my mindset. And one of those tools is balancing effort with ease, which comes from the Yoga Sutra “Sthira Sukham Asanam.”
Steadiness - putting in effort without strain. In Yoga, it's balanced action or Sukha Stira. In a way to me, it's a kinder version of discipline, where we can create our own space to forgive and get messy and forgive again.
In my meditation practice a few evenings ago, my teacher Baron Baptiste asked us to set a mantra to anchor our attention on.
What came up for me wasn't sexy nor aww inspiring - it was STEADINESS, which was new to me. I wasn't sure of it initially but it was the first thing that popped into my head. And I kept repeating it in my head, and it got stuck.
We all have our things to do daily so that we don’t go insane, things that we don’t want to do but we need to do, right?I've been struggling with doing too much things, because I was afraid of feeling overwhelmed. Because when I feel overwhelmed, I do nada. Zilch!! Unproductive.
That day I gave myself permission to skip my pills, the herbs, my to-dos and the what-nots - and gave myself a break , to restore myself back to love.
I meditated and I journaled and what came up was a long of poem of sorts.. It is what it is, the chatters of my monkey mind.
