Laundry in the puddle

Something my yoga instructor Jess shared at one of her classes has stuck with me every since.  She spoke of the first time she knew she was taking her yoga of the mat.  Jess recounted a seemingly frustrating scenario of a laundromat visit on a rainy night and a puddle in which all her clothes fell when she opened the car.  We all can recount a time (or more likely times) like these when things just don't go as they should.  The before yoga Jess would have reacted one way to the event but the post-yoga Jess chose a different response: to calmly move forward, scoop up the clothes and carry on.  It may have not even been a conscious choice, Qualities fostered through a yoga practice, such as patience, empathy, compassion and kindness make an imprint that we may not even realize has been made.. until the laundry falls in the puddle.

I had my laundry in the puddle opportunity this weekend when all of my teaching services disappeared from my web site.  

have you had a laundry in the puddle opportunity? did you react? or did you respond?

​#foodforthought

Peace.


"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." Henry David Thoreau