Who you are as a person is important to the world. You are the only person who can do the job of being you. Everything about you is exactly the way it needs to be for you to fulfil your purpose on this earth.
If you consider yoga to be an exercise geared toward physical health you may want to reconsider. Yoga can help you stay in the moment and start to release negative thinking.
I’ll end up that wrinkled old woman with grey skin hooked up to an IV trolley, with only one lung, outside in the hospital carpark lighting up a cigarette.
Today, on Duckfish’s birthday, he and I spent two and a half hours climbing up the mountain you see in the photo: Mt Warning or Mt Wollumbin. I’ve been back in the gym less than three months and only working out a couple of times a week.
I stand in front of the glass display counter waiting to be served. In front of me are shelves of delicious mud cakes, cheese cake and hand-made chocolates. I quite like a slice of cake on occasion but my true love is chocolate.
But what if it’s not our own flawed willpower or sluggish metabolism that’s to blame? What if we’ve just been using the wrong tools for the job? The truth is that dieting actually makes us fatter because it’s focused on control and deprivation.