Painting again, excited to see a fresh colour. It changes everything. Your perception of an interior living space is completely altered by its colour scheme. In Iyengar yoga, your perception of the body’s interior space is completely altered by closely following the teacher’s directions. You learn to feel from the inside out. And yes, the light bulb moment does come. You can feel that particular muscle on the left side, but alas, not on the right side. Your awareness can then deal with it. Not knowing is even worse.
Our pattern of understanding our own bodies becomes engrained over time. Just like our perception of our interior living spaces becomes engrained if we never change our colour schemes. Habitual posture needs fresh yoga eyes to see and feel imbalances, so that they can be realigned and relief can come from aches and pains caused by these postural imbalances.
So too our homes need visual changes or they become stale, all too known, all too secure. We need to see like artists, see how colour affects our moods and our actual perceptions of what is right in front of us. We also need to see with yoga eyes, see with compassion, give even ourselves a break, not just everyone else a break. With compassion comes patience.
We all could use more of that.
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