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Let Yourself be Average
Learning to enjoy life and let go of perfectionism
“In today’s rush, we all think too much — seek too much — want too much — and forget about the joy of just being.”
— Eckhart Tolle
I am 100% average at Yoga. And that’s okay.
As part of the online yoga community, I see a lot of my fellow practitioners posting videos of themselves doing their favourite routines and poses. It’s inspiring and somewhat intimidating to see how fluid their motions are, how strong they look, how cute their yoga outfits are (note: most of these people are women).
Out of curiosity, I recorded myself doing a half-hour yoga routine because I wanted to see what I look like doing yoga.
Aside from the fact that I was using my phone and wide-angle lenses are not kind, I noticed that my idea of what I looked like doing yoga was vastly different from what I actually looked like. Poses I thought I held well didn’t look nearly as polished, my legs didn’t straighten in forward folds — though I knew that already, and my movements weren’t nearly as effortless and fluid as others.
My first thought was: Oh god, that’s what I look like? Yikes.
