Ready, set, surrender

I’m laying on my back on the bright blue floor mats. My legs make a diamond shape with the souls of my feet lightly meeting. Because I’ve been doing this yoga pose for years, instead of feeling the tightness of my muscles, I feel their immediate release. My knees relax towards the ground. I surrender.

I’m in the waiting room at my kids’ taekwondo class where I’d planned to prep for an upcoming talk. And then life had alternate plans. My pen and my phone died. And then…

I let myself find a way to feel good. I stretched. I meditated. I went over my mental notes. Those 40 minutes could’ve been really frustrating. My plan was shot. I was on a deadline. I choose to do something and feel something more constructive. It was surrender. Succumbing to the happiness that was available, not the anger.

It was micro-dosing happiness in action.

Surrender.

I’ve had an interesting relationship with this very simple concept…beginning with feeling like it might be impossible for me to let go of an outcome.

Motherhood, entrepreneurship, and yoga (I guess life in general!!) has offered me lesson after lesson, opportunity after opportunity, to engage with surrender. This has felt like frustration, anger, reluctance, and then acceptance.

What an idea - that letting go, not pushing or willing or driving forward - will lead to me to the future of my dreams.

Just. Let. Go.

Even looking at those words on this page relaxes me. I first heard them in my yoga practices. I would watch with awe as my teacher would bend and stretch her body in ways I couldn’t. I longed to be stronger and more flexible. But as soon as I would get into certain poses, I would feel the tightness, the rigidity of my body. I could feel my muscles “holding on”. To the tension, the emotions, that I’d stored up over my lifetime.

Life is a habit.

Holding on is a habit. Letting go is a habit.

If finding daily happiness (the happiness that’s always available to you) feels difficult, there’s nothing wrong with you. You’ve just been practicing different habits.

My High-Vibe Habits support your ability to consistently offer yourself what you need to feel good in this moment. And that lets you stay consistent in moving towards what you want in the next one.

Micro-dosing happiness can help you enjoy your life without adding in a to-do. You don’t need to do more to be happy. You need to do something different.

Until next week - sending love and gratitude. xx