Comments on: revolution week three http://lululemon.com/community/blog/revolution-week-three/ Read about yoga and running, inspirational goal setting, meditation, healthy snacks, travel stories, playlists and an overwhelming love of life. Tue, 21 May 2013 19:20:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: brooke hamblet http://lululemon.com/community/blog/revolution-week-three/comment-page-1/#comment-435360 brooke hamblet Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:40:20 +0000 http://blogadmin.lululemon.com/community/blog/?p=37889#comment-435360 Tracy, your articulate capture of equanimity sits at the center of my heart. For as we commonly think that getting by, doing the "right thing," living up to others expectations and living through all of the other common ailments that our contained hearts think is normal, we find that we still feel empty or searching. It is because we are out of balance. When we say no when we want to say yes, when we please because we want to be liked, when we live through something just because we fear the consequences of stopping the madness, we live 99% on the other side of truth. And that little nagging 1% keeps saying, "hey, I'm still here. I'm not going away." We may as well have a ball chained to our ankle. I am with you: I believe that equanimity means living truth. The joy of being who you are and living how you want to live ends up being so much easier than the pain of wearing the mask of indifference and mediocrity. And wearing other people's masks - doing what they think we should do rather than what our own souls so clearly tell us to do every moment of every day, is the heaviest burden of all. No wonder we don't feel balanced. Luckily, we have each other to help us see the blindspots. Thank you for being a force on this planet. I am right beside you. B Tracy, your articulate capture of equanimity sits at the center of my heart. For as we commonly think that getting by, doing the “right thing,” living up to others expectations and living through all of the other common ailments that our contained hearts think is normal, we find that we still feel empty or searching. It is because we are out of balance. When we say no when we want to say yes, when we please because we want to be liked, when we live through something just because we fear the consequences of stopping the madness, we live 99% on the other side of truth. And that little nagging 1% keeps saying, “hey, I’m still here. I’m not going away.” We may as well have a ball chained to our ankle.

I am with you: I believe that equanimity means living truth. The joy of being who you are and living how you want to live ends up being so much easier than the pain of wearing the mask of indifference and mediocrity. And wearing other people’s masks – doing what they think we should do rather than what our own souls so clearly tell us to do every moment of every day, is the heaviest burden of all. No wonder we don’t feel balanced. Luckily, we have each other to help us see the blindspots.

Thank you for being a force on this planet. I am right beside you.

B

]]> By: Erin http://lululemon.com/community/blog/revolution-week-three/comment-page-1/#comment-434828 Erin Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:14:23 +0000 http://blogadmin.lululemon.com/community/blog/?p=37889#comment-434828 Dude, that Dhanurasana is awesome. I love the face; it's SO how I feel when doing that pose. Great blog as usual, lemons! Dude, that Dhanurasana is awesome. I love the face; it’s SO how I feel when doing that pose. Great blog as usual, lemons!

]]> By: Sherrie http://lululemon.com/community/blog/revolution-week-three/comment-page-1/#comment-433581 Sherrie Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:51:40 +0000 http://blogadmin.lululemon.com/community/blog/?p=37889#comment-433581 Wow, I don't think I understood equanimity until last week either. Meditation is getting harder, but I'm just sitting with it. Slowly and surely...Thank you, the quote pierced my heart and left me with clarity. Wow, I don’t think I understood equanimity until last week either. Meditation is getting harder, but I’m just sitting with it. Slowly and surely…Thank you, the quote pierced my heart and left me with clarity.

]]> By: Cathy http://lululemon.com/community/blog/revolution-week-three/comment-page-1/#comment-433403 Cathy Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:50:17 +0000 http://blogadmin.lululemon.com/community/blog/?p=37889#comment-433403 Hi! I'm not doing the digital 40 days this time, but I have done the 40 Days in the past. This post really spoke to me. I do Baptiste Power Yoga at Dancing Dogs in Beaufort, SC, and I've been in poses where I wanted to run, move, do anything other than stay there. All kinds of stuff comes up. I also teach Yin Yoga, and those are the things I usually speak to when we're in a pose. Holding the poses longer as you do in Yin, all kinds of thoughts, feelings, and emotions come up and by staying with them, breathing into them, we learn, not only in Yin but in any kind of yoga to stay present in the face of adversity. Keep on writing! Hi! I’m not doing the digital 40 days this time, but I have done the 40 Days in the past. This post really spoke to me. I do Baptiste Power Yoga at Dancing Dogs in Beaufort, SC, and I’ve been in poses where I wanted to run, move, do anything other than stay there. All kinds of stuff comes up.

I also teach Yin Yoga, and those are the things I usually speak to when we’re in a pose. Holding the poses longer as you do in Yin, all kinds of thoughts, feelings, and emotions come up and by staying with them, breathing into them, we learn, not only in Yin but in any kind of yoga to stay present in the face of adversity.

Keep on writing!

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