When you look on Instagram it seems like you have to love everything you do and you have to be passionate every moment that you do everything.
It´s not true.
Sometimes it´s hard and you don´t feel like doing what you are passionate about.
But you have to keep doing it.
Emotionlessly if necessary.
Recently I had the hardest week of training in 4 months.
- I had important pain in the shoulders
- I was out of my routine, with guests at home and travelling often
- I was having bad nights of sleep
It felt like a tremendous effort to start my yoga practice each and everyday.
Even, when I started, almost all the time I wanted to stop.
But I kept on.
I kept showing up.
Without energy, without will.
That´s when I remembered some things from the past:
- When I was a teenager I swam everyday 2 hours/day in a team. It didn´t matter if I was tired, if I was busy, if I didn´t feel like. I just went everyday to the swimming pool
- When I was studying architecture at the University, I went to classes everyday and I studied at home everyday. That´s how I became an architect. It didn´t matter if I felt like studying or if I was tired. I just kept on doing it
In these two cases I had a commitment, with a team or with myself. I had to show up.
But when I am training on my own it´s easy to give up or not show up.
Because I have no commitment with anyone else.
That´s why I need a commitment with yourself or with god.
Having a commitment with myself and with god, I have to show up.
There are no excuses.
- If I am tired, I do my practice
- If I have pain, I do my practice
- If I don´t feel like practicing, I do my practice
I keep doing my practice anyways.
Emotionlessly if necessary.
Because there are only two tools to liberate us from ignorance:
- Daily practice
- Detachment from sensory organs
So keep practicing.