Leave Your Problems at the Door

I walked into yoga today with a laundry-list of stresses on my mind. Our instructor Todd welcomed us and reminded us in his hushed way, "You can't solve all the world's problems in the next hour. So leave your problems at the door. They'll still be there when you're done."

There's always one moment in yoga class where I hear our instructor speak the all-caps TRUTH. They'll say something that I really HEAR. Something that resonates deeply within me on that day and something just perfect that I really needed to remember and focus on.

An hour and a half later, I left class and Todd was right... the problems still exist. But they didn't seem to loom quite so large over me. OH, and I nailed my first ever "side crow"... so today I'll choose to celebrate little victories and focus on those instead of the laundry-list (or the actual, physical laundry, which is piled HIGH in the basket, waiting for me).

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