By Tanya Kawan
After a week of returning from the trip with my family, it feels so good to be back in my own space. I feel ready to assimilate and integrate everything I experienced emotionally in those days that I was away.
I realized why the practice of yoga and meditation have become so important to me. If I let several days go by without practicing, I feel like something is missing. It is when, for example, I am breathing freely, receiving all the oxygen so that my body works at its highest potential, and for some reason something starts obstructing the free passage of oxygen to my body causing my cells to immediately react. I feel like something is missing, and my body begins to ask me for it.
This practice makes me more aware of feeling the well-being of filling all the space of my lungs when I inhale, of bringing my attention to feeling the parts of my body when I move them in a specific way so that they are aligned correctly in the postures. All this leads me to be more present and centered in my heart, which, at the end of my practice, brings me a great feeling of peace and inner calm. For me, that has become something very valuable.
Another important part that develops with yoga and meditation is that of the observer. It is easier for me to see myself from the outside, to observe my thoughts, my actions.
This was very useful on my trip, especially in one of the most intense moments: we were in the car that my brother was driving at night, missing half an hour to get to where we were staying, and I was able to observe myself in the middle of a strong emotional charge I was getting from him. In these situations, I go straight out the door, abandoning the aggressor, but never if I am in a moving car. I saw enough to deduce that if I got hooked, it would create even more anger in the situation; I could just focus on my breathing and direct love to him. Fortunately, I decided the latter and when I got out of the ring, he got even angrier, increasing the emotional avalanche.
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