It feels like I've been away for such a long time. It's easy to get stuck in those ruts, where we feel we only have energy for life's absolute necessities and everything else seems to fade into the background. Well, fortunately, life being the fluid thing that it is, we can outsmart the mind's routines and help bring back creativity and spontaneity into our lives and our yoga practice.
This is a bit of an usual technique, a sort of gentle 'shock into awakening' for the mind. The point is that when you are dealing with feeling stuck, or with difficult emotions, do something completely unexpected!! If you are crying, start dancing. It doesn't matter if there is no music, it doesn't matter if at first you don't want to dance. Just start; throw yourself into it, and in a few moments your mind will have allowed the sadness to flow right out of you. If you are angry, try sitting in compassion for the person who has angered you. This can also be confusing to the mind. The situation, which seemed so black and white before, can begin to turn a subtle shade of gray, until you realize that you are sitting in peaceful awareness, the anger having subsided.
The only catch to this technique is: it's better to not use the same response twice, because then your body and mind will simply become habituated to that! So you must always be creative, always on your toes. But that is part of the fun of life.
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