Yoga & a bowl of noodles

Do you ever start a new idea and struggle with the concept every day?  Like hey I’m gonna work out every day or i’m gonna eat this or eat better and blah blah blah.  Yoga is one of those things for me.  There are documented benefits to practicing yoga as little as once a week, or even once a month can be better than none at all!  But for more positive benefits it’s most beneficial to practice yoga 3-4 times a week.  And don’t make yourself believe you have to do hour long sessions 3-4 times a week, cause who has time for that??? Even 2 minutes of yoga can be helpful doing planks or downward dog, cat or cow pose and helping the overall well being with all kinds of proven effects, from increased blood flow and higher oxygen levels while adding to your overall flexibility, or at least maintaining your current flexibility cause we all know how less flexible we can be as we get older.

One thing I look forward to and I’m planning for the future…

Think of a bucket of noodles.  Sometimes we throw a whole bowl or even a bucket of noodles out there to see what sticks.  Or imagine having a burnt noodle and you throw the whole thing out because of one burnt noodle (you know those little ones at the bottom if you didn’t stir enough?).  We work to eliminate the burnt ones but sometimes we make mistakes.  Regardless of our imperfection the noodles still all get intertwined.  One thing I’m grateful for is when others are patient with me as I make those mistakes and a common error I make and am working to improve on is not throwing a jumbled mess of spaghetti out there and expect someone else to figure it out or completely understand.  So my new aim is to look at one noodle at a time, like doing 2 minutes of yoga 3-4 days a week, instead of a whole mess of pasta looking at a project or problem as a gigantic tangled ball of knots.  One string of pasta is easier to slurp up than a whole bowl.  Don’t throw a bucket of noodles at others and don’t expect other people to throw an entire bowl of pasta at you either.  

Take it one noodle at a time. That's my journey today!