Balancing life is like a yoga pose

In yoga,  we have been taught that it is very much about balancing, Like balancing our pose with holding on to a pose  or letting it go.  When you decide to hold on, your stretching could be testing your endurance or your limit until pain sets in.

My young Guru teach always try to tell us to hold and test our limits but our fear hold us back. We are fearful of injury or pain and that is what pull us back. Then, how shall we know our limits our push ourselves to the limit ? To do that we have to face our fear and conquer our fear .

If we choose to hold on, the pain will intensify and if we  persist , it could reach a breaking point  or if we push it pass the breaking point, we will suffer an injury.  This is a judgement and decision we have to make.  Where is our breaking point ?  When we so engrossed in an exercise, we tend to lose track of our limits and we convince ourself the longer we can hold to a pose means it will be better for us.

Generally, it maybe right.  If only you have the power or the strength, you will be able to hold a pose well and in a correct manner. But, if our decision to hold on despite the pain gets uncomfortable then we will be in trouble. It is better to learn our treasure our body's re-action and message.  If your fellow yogi's can hold a 20 count , it does not mean that you have to hold the pose to a 20 count.  For you, a 10 count will be sufficient as this is your limit .  If you choose to follow a more advance yogi to a 20 counter , then you have surpass your limit and will give you undue pain and discomfort. So, how you determine which is your limit between 10 and 20 counts.  The only way to know is to gradually increase your holding counts to 11  and then 12  until 20 and your body will know which is your optimum level.

If you have receive your body message ,then you have to let go.

This is a simple philosophy in life. If you come to face with a situation, you could choose to hold your re-action and let it go timely.  If you suprress your feelings and hold on to your re-action as your choice then it could hurt your happiness and your health. So, we should know when to let go before we hurt ourselves.

For example, holding up a stick.  The longer we hold it , our arms will get more uncomfortable and until a point, the pain is unbearable  then we are forced to let go  of the stick.  If we choose to injure our arm by not letting go, it will be damaging to our arms and we will eventually hurt ourselves.

Finally, holding on or letting go is our choice in life and we should be responsible for our decision.

Namaste.