Healthy Chicks

Yesterday during my extra-sweaty yoga class at Sweat & Soul Yoga the teacher said something that really stood out to me. She had mentioned that most of the time we’re in our own head (very me-me-me!) and sometimes that can be hard to snap out of.

While it’s important to put ourselves first most of the time (and make our general wellbeing a top priority) sometimes we become too involved with ourselves.

An example the teacher gave during yoga was when you may think you’re all fine & dandy until someone cuts you off on the highway and suddenly it’s a full fledged road rage fest with lots of swearing & middle fingering. Not so fine & dandy after all, now are we?

Essentially getting out of your own head is realizing we’re all in this together. We all go through shitty days and we all have lucky, on-fire kinda days. We all suffer and we all feel love. We all get really angry, and we all know what it’s like to feel a sense of peace & calm. Essentially we’re all one…in this crazy beautiful world together…as equals.

Last week, I was on the train and it came to an abrupt stop so I accidentally flung backward and apparently nudged another passenger. “UM, HELLO, I DON’T EVEN GET A SORRY?” the women shouted to me. “Sorry, I didn’t hear you,” I replied back (as I had headphones on and couldn’t quite make out what she said) “WHATEVER, NEVER MIND!” she shouted back. Looking back, that woman may have been a little too inside her head that day, not realizing that maybe, just maybe I accidentally fell into her without even realizing it, and that quite frankly the entire train was getting aggravated by the bumps. We were in it together.

Today I had my own test with getting too involved with ME. I went to the nail salon to get a pedicure and waited 20 minutes with my feet sitting in cold water before someone attended to me. I took a deep breath and said “It’s OK. It’s just time.” After 75 minutes of time I didn’t really have, I headed home to get some rest before a meeting tonight. When I took off my shoes, half of my toes were ruined…polish completely smudged. And I’m going to a wedding tomorrow. Great, just GREAT!

While I was pretty darn angry at first, I had to laugh at myself. This is a test. The universe is testing my ability to handle curveballs, forcing me to snap out of the world of Rachel. So I laughed, and then hopped on over to my laptop to write this post. You see, it’s not the end of the world. I can go back later or early tomorrow morning to get them fixed.

Ah, this is what she was talking about yesterday, I thought to myself. Now I truly get it.