From disappointment to success.

I rather often here after my yoga classes (especially from new people) the following feedback: I am so stiff and bad with my body. It was so difficult. So, I decided to prepare some inspiring thoughts, which I hope will help you to stay constantly with your yoga practice and succeed in other fields of life as well. 
A big success is always going together with a lot of challenges, hardships and lost. Fully life includes not only pleasant sides and exciting moments, but also a lot of moments that are laying far away from comfort. Of course, we can choose to avoid life “sharp corners” and stay in relative “smooth mode”. But will be this life vital and exciting, full of energy and anticipations? My answer: “No”. It will be only a faint illusion of life. If you cherish a comfort more than growing, you will inevitably leading your inner flame to death.My word is to embrace discomfort in life for unrolling its bright sides!
Go out of your comfort zone and be ready to aware your weakness. This is the way of self-improvement and life fulfillment! 

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing”. Aristotel

Choosing this path, you’ll take yourself to a very vulnerable state and readiness to have a lot of storms in life, literally to be shaken from the top of your toes to the top of your head.  But only accepting our weakness, we can find a real strength and learn something new. Growing isn’t possible without challenges!The truth is whatever you will choose life with more comfort or less it will be still up and down. One way or another you will still face life questions. So, in this case, why not to find courageous to accept tough challenges in return to get to the top of life? To do what you really love to do, to be with the people, you really want to be, to be that person you DO want to be and live your desirable life? 
What kind of life Do we want to live? What is our Real passion, inspiring goal that lights our eyes and hearts?
What can help to wake up us in the morning with the feeling of eager to start day earlier to be able to move closer to our dream?
I promise you, you won’t even notice hardships, because the feeling of anticipation to approach your goal closer every day will ignite you massively and make challenges as the exciting and inspiring part of your life success. You will for sure work hard, but your strong motivation dissolves problems.

“The future has many names. For the weak it is unattainable, for fearful –unknown, for the bold-ideal”. V. Hugo

My own interpretation of this quotation. Life has different names. For weak it is problems, for fearful – challenges, for bold – great possibilities and ideal situation for growing.
We need to take away totally idea about life like a smooth line. It isn’t possible! It will be up and down anyway even if you try to choose easiest way.
The truth is that whatever you will choose you will encounter with life difficulties anyway.
So, why not to choose from beginning the most desirable path if you’re going anyway through the challenges? Why not to contribute your energy to the solving questions in direction of your passion in the life what you really want?
For sure, it will be a lot of commitments and you have to be open for a lot of mistakes and failures. But isn’t it worth it?
Do you find yourself in depressed state? The colors of life lost their brightness? This is a clear sign that you’re swamped too much in your comfort zone. It’s a call of acting to move forward, to step out towards a new growing.
Inside all of us is dwelling a wild nature –unlimited potential.  But we forget about it, staying too longer in the mode of stability and secure likewise animals in the zoo. Our eyes stop shining and became dull, our inner flame get ceased.
It is a warning to wake up and do something different.
Look at the animals in wild nature! They don’t have security about future and relative comfort cages, but how gorgeous and outstanding they are in wild life?! This calls price for freedom. But simultaneously wildness is including other sides - uncertainty, hardships, insecurity.
So, first step to get out of your “comfort cage” is mentally preparing yourself for massive difficulties on the path of your “wild” life. Set the right attitude to hardships as they are not punishments, but great blessings from Universe for your growing and development.
I like to tell very often to my students a story about my entering in yoga life.
My first yoga class was totally disaster for me. I couldn’t be able to do almost nothing. I had got so disappointed that I came to my teacher and shared with him my anxiety.
I shall never forget his tremendous answer on my complaining: “This is amazing, Lidiya, that you couldn’t do so much right now. You have so much space for improving!”
I was definitely blessed to get in this life such a sage person as first yoga teacher.
So, this is my other declaration here: Always see in your hardships only endless opportunities for you growing and improvement!
My great disappointment ignited me to the commitment practice and eventually was bringing me to a yoga teacher state.