Finding Joy in your Mistake

I love this photo I took. When I showed it to my Sweetie and our photography teacher, they both said "Shake". It seems that I had not held my camera as still as I should have.

Stillness in the moment is important as our Yoga teacher tells us every week. However, ever so often you can enjoy the "shake" even while you realize that it is not ideal. I might not have done the shot well, but I still enjoyed the moment!

Appreciate your special moment, and learn something from it. That is all we can ask for in our journey, perfect snapshot or not.

The Stillness in Between

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast,

you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
  Eddie Cantor

I read this quote and realized how many times I rush things. One task is barely done and the next has started. Each day is crammed full of ‘to-do’s with no break in between.

At the Yoga Studio, my teacher makes us slow down and listen to our breath as it moves. She tells us to pause in that moment of stillness in which our intake breath changes to our exhale and then to pause again before we breathe in.

Being aware of this makes me appreciate my Yoga time even more. We are not often told to be still, when the only thing to do is to breathe.

University of Portland, Oregon

 The next day with this thought in mind, I caught myself. I had just bitten into a tiny, delectable morsel of chocolate (did my hushed sigh of pleasure) and already had one foot on the floor ready to move. NO! I forced myself to stop and enjoy the flavour of that dark chocolate as it melted in my mouth. “There is no need to rush, stop and enjoy this moment” I said to myself. 

How many times a day do we deprive ourselves of those moments of pleasure that would enrich our day?