Yoga Made me Wealthier in a Year
This is your sign to start practicing it if you want to heal your relationship with yourself.
Even though it can sound like a cliche I promise you won’t regret doing it. In the end, we all want to live happily so, what is keeping you apart from doing it?
If there’s one thing I really believe in, it’s personal commitment. Nobody is more important in your life than yourself. If you’re not your best version you can’t share it with the world.
It doesn’t matter what leads you to start your yoga practice, you’ll see results in every single aspect of your life. Why? Because you’ll start to embody your true self above all your limiting beliefs.
I started my practice 10 months ago.
During the first months, I used to go to different classes 3 times per week because I wanted to try and know which type of yoga could fit better with me and my schedule. After the first 5 months, I connected more with Ashtanga.
I began my journey trying to heal from a hip injury I’ve had for 2 years now. I dance so my body is my most precious tool. I was sick of feeling pain every single day during classes or rehearsals, and what yoga gave me back was 100 times more than making the pain disappear.
We, as humans, tend to live and think from a very individualistic perspective in which we are the most important thing and the rest of the world moves around us. We forget to look at the bigger picture.
Let’s be honest, the world started way before we arrived and will last more than us too. It’s time to accept the reality and play in our favor.
We become adults without being taught how to do it. This makes finding balance in life harder than we would like it to be. The same happens in yoga.
When you start practicing yoga you don’t reach your feet, you can barely extend your knees or you don’t even know how to breathe while keeping a posture for some time.
Beginnings are always the hardest part of the process, and you only do it because you have faith in your goal. It is there where you start accepting failure as part of the journey, and you see it with a new perspective, as a new chance to learn and be better at it.
Yoga is not about flexibility but about self-knowledge and control. It’s about finding the way to do the posture and being able to keep it for some breaths even though you want to quit. Your mind doesn’t have the power here so she begins to understand that she’s not the main character of your life.
It happens the same way with Life. It’s not always easy to keep going, there are so many challenges every single day, but you still keep going knowing that you can only go forward, and the only thing you expect from it is to do it the best way.
Guess what, there’s no best way but the way that makes you feel at peace with it. You cannot control Life, but you can control yourself and the way you react to it. When you take your yoga practice to life you start accepting that you’re only a small part of the Universe but you still matter, and you have something to share.
In this self-growth journey is where you’ll find yourself living with more peace and acceptance instead of reacting to everything around you. Control your mind and stop trying to control others’ minds.
Here are the 3 main ways yoga made me wealthier and how it happened:
Love your body.
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” -Buddha.
One of the biggest advantages of yoga is that there aren’t mirrors near you so you start to understand that it isn’t about how you look but about how you feel.
Our society is always trying to get our attention out of ourselves. In this way, you put more energy into others, and you don’t have time to work on yourself and your real power.
Everyone is in this world to share something. There’s no other you. Start embracing your point of view in life, start using your voice to spread your truth, and start believing that your message matters because it does.
We learn to compare ourselves since we’re kids but there’s no room for it when you’re in yoga. Your body sensations are constantly changing! You can’t expect to look the same way every single day because you’re not the same person.
If you start to focus on how you feel instead on how you look you’ll find that it’s easier to do something in order to feel better. If you want to change something in yourself it’s because it bothers you. What if what really bothers you is the feeling your brain is receiving and not the thing itself?
Working on that will make a huge difference in your mindset, and you’ll understand better that it is not the outside that you hate, but the way it makes you feel.
Once again, everything starts in your mind and comes from your nervous system. You can have a closer approach to this in this article.
Accept what it is.
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”-Buddha.
As I shared in the beginning, you won’t feel good in your first practices but you’ll do it if you keep trying. Every body can do every yoga posture but not everybody knows how to get there. Acceptance is the way. Accept what it is and trust the process. I can promise you it will be worth it.
Results come from work and consistency. You shouldn’t do anything expecting it to be perfect, you should do it because you believe in its worth. Appearance is only a small part of the process. You’ll master it with time but while you learn there are so many necessary and worthwhile steps to focus on.
Remember to live with purpose. There’s no right or wrong, just different ways to do it. Find the one that fits your core beliefs, and you’ll find that life gets easier. There’s nothing you have to change. In that state of mind is where you’ll find your zone of genius, and you’ll become your best version knowing that it will evolve daily.
Work for a higher purpose.
“Give, even if you only have a little.” -Buddha.
Going to yoga classes for the first time is a huge challenge due to all the traditions there’re behind the practice. You enter the class and the teacher uses unknown and incomprehensible words, they pray, they tell a story based on its philosophy,…
At this point, you don’t know if you want to run out or stay and see what’s coming next. I get you.
However, the energy is so caring and the environment feels so safe that you won’t experience the need to run. On the opposite hand, you’ll find yourself wanting to stay to see what’s coming next.
People usually start practicing yoga for themselves but after some time your mindset starts to change, and you begin to do it for something bigger than you, your true purpose in life.
You do it because it makes your body feel released, your mind feels calm, and your heart feels at peace. All these put you in a new place of healthier energy, and you begin to understand that there’s no need to go back to the dark when you can work towards a brighter version of yourself.
Discomfort won’t matter anymore because you’ll take it as a challenge. You’re going to see how expectations leave your life, and you’ll find yourself thinking with more clarity, and choosing quality over quantity.
Here is where magic is hidden, and wealth is starting to show and be part of your being. You only want to do things that make you a better human to show up for others the best way you can.
Nothing else matters because you’re connected to your highest self, and working from there is much easier than trying to fit into society through a character that only brings suffering to your soul.
I feel so grateful for having discovered this new world that I want to continue sharing with all of you.
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