…. perhaps you’d never again have a negative one!!
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Mar
23
I don’t want to characterize myself as a fair-weather yogini… or, to be more precise, a fair-sinus yogini… but in the spirit of full disclosure, I do believe I am.
The first signs of a cold are one thing. I work through it, snuffling and snorting a little, until I get back my breath. Several minutes into Sun Salutations I can count on the excess runny boogers fluid draining away… somewhere.
However, once I am suffering with full-fledged head congestion, I give up the yogic ghost. I just have no patience for struggling for breath through a narrow passage in my snot, the diameter of the head of a pin… and only one nostril. Nothing cramps my Ujaii style like a nose full of sticky goo.
I recall asking a new yoga instructor years ago, having spent an entire class fighting with my stuffed head, what her best recommendation was for getting the most out of a practice when congested. After first a long hesitation, and then stammering, her suggestion was ‘well, maybe, holding Downward Dog?’
Erk! Yes. Nothing like draining all of the fluid clogging my head…. back into my head! And so, in the years since, I have managed through congestion, or more often, bagged it altogether once the thickness in my head and the gasping and choking for breath just became too bothersome. Ahhhhh… holding Child’s Pose… now, that I can see.
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Mar
16
According to scientists, if you see the dancer turning clockwise, you’re operating more dominantly from the right-brain… left-brain if she’s turning counter-clockwise. Supposedly, if you stare at her foot and its shadow, you can actually turn her in the other direction. Ummmm… OK… yes, but now I have a headache….
To summarize the characteristics of each…
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS: uses logic, detail oriented, facts rule, words and language, present and past, math and science, comprehension and knowing, order/pattern perception, reality based, forms strategies, practical, safe;
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS: uses feeling, “big picture” oriented, imagination rules, symbols and images, present and future, philosophy & religion, can “get it” (i.e. meaning), believes, appreciates, spatial perception, knows object function, fantasy based, presents possibilities, impetuous and risk taking.
The bottom line is we need both to function. But sometimes… say, when you’re trying something new, or wanting to accomplish a work of some creativity… or perhaps just needing to get through a yoga practice with a shred of self-esteem (ahem!), it’s nice to just turn off that left side… that pesky and insistent part of your head that continuously reminds you how ridiculously bad you are at whatever you are doing. Sometimes it’s important- no, essential- to just go with the flow and allow the freedom of imagination, fantasy and creativity, the right- brain, to take hold.
Not an easy task. However, as I found during my last practice, it’s possible…
