I drive a lot. I noticed last week a sedan maybe 4 feet from the back of a tractor trailor. I know what it is to drive in a hurry. Your whole awareness is centered on the moron in front of you that's moving too slowly. Figuratively and literally when you're driving you get so close to the person they're all you can see.
This tendency to let something eat away at you can happen to anyone under a variety of conditions. Anytime you clinging to a thought bubble and can't let it go. Everybody has their own triggers, everybody has the thing that sets them off. Or many things. I am no exception.
It's just another way in which yoga is proving itself to be incredibly useful over and over again in my life. The ability to create the pause, creating a half a second of space between you and what is making you insane is not something that we are taught. Trying to shove thoughts to the back of your mind, not worrying about it, not thinking about it is easier said than done. It's yoga that brings practical techniques to allow you to progress past something painful.
Class this week focuses on moving until you meet resistance and then breathing. Notice your reaction to the resistance. How does it change your breath? How does it change your thought pattern? Your breath can help you move through thoughts that tend to cling. In that moment of awareness of the combination of pain and breath is where you can regain your sanity.
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