True Yoga is Simple: 13 Steps to Deepen Your Home Practice by Olga Yumasheva - HTML preview

cheap that you can have a fantastic lunch for

less than a dollar without feeling that you limit

yourselves on something.

I had plenty of time and seemingly no

problems. Yet, I rarely felt at peace with

myself. I didn’t know what to do with all the

time I had; I couldn’t appreciate its value.

I’m not saying it was a useless period of my

life. At all, not. Sometimes we do need to stop,

take a pause, look at things from a distance to

see where we’re heading. But if the break

becomes too long, we fall out of a natural

cycle.

Active and passive states should change over

again and again. If we stay active for too long

without breaks, we get a burnout. If we remain

passive too long, we slow down and may

become lazy, inert, and even unconfident to

act decisively. It gets hard to integrate again

into regular human social interaction.

When I was eventually forced to go back to

social life, I felt much more cheerful. After

working hard the whole week, weekends

became a real well-deserved pleasure.