In regard to last night’s beautiful Bikram disaster (yesterday’s post), I have to say I found the beauty of that disastrous class when I woke up this morning. I woke up in a great frame of mind with lots of energy. It was fit club day and I couldn’t wait to get there.
All through today’s workout I actually felt myself smiling in my brain. During cardio my mind was filled with planning my Young Authors Workshop I’m doing in Boston next week. Last night I didn’t want to think about it. I was wondering where I was going to get the energy to do it. That thought actually scared me. Never in my life did I question my energy for a big project. Uh – oh…here it is…this must be what they mean by “getting old”. Some people accept this. I almost did yesterday before I went to yoga. After one yoga class – that was pretty disastrous – I’m back to myself.
This morning I couldn’t wait to begin getting my materials together and get to my workout. It was during my workout that it occurred to me this was the beauty born of the disaster. A bad yoga class is really a good thing. It hurts and it’s hard to get rid of toxins and move and repair muscles. Not only muscles, but the general repair of all the body systems knocked out of whack by five days of doing nothing, does not feel good. The horribleness I felt all during that class was getting rid of food and sugar damage. Today I felt like a new person when I woke up and now, even at 2:30 in the afternoon, I have a lot of energy.
The funny thing is that people shy away from Bikram because it’s hot, it’s hard, and it’s uncomfortable, but that’s the point. To fix and repair all of the things wrong in all of our body systems things have to move, be removed, and repositioned and this is not going to be a picnic. Besides the sweat, there’s nausea, tired muscles, breathing difficulty, and not to mention the “monkey mind” telling you you can’t do this. When people ask me if Bikram is fun, I look at them like they have two heads and say, “No! It’s not fun. It’s necessary. Is going to the dentist fun? No! But it’s necessary.”
The beautiful disaster takes shape after class. Once you are careful to rehydrate and replace electrolytes, your body feels amazing, but first you have to go to class and put the time in. Now I know what the teachers mean when they say you reap the benefits in the twenty four hours following class.
And so, as another day goes by, I can’t sit safely in my chair when I feel awful, I have to get to class and get healed, and…I have written.
Haha…how true!
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