Increase your Mind power

How do we increase mind power? Let’s look at 2 experiments. In the first experiment school children were given two plants. They were told to compliment the first plant and to insult the second. A month later the compliment plant thrived, and the insulted plant was dying.
Embracing Failure: a love story (about yoga)

This is a blog about yoga.
It is also about failure.
Injury.
Learning to enjoy things you’re bad at.
And finally, this is about love: A love story.
Just not the kind you expect.
What kind of strong are you?

What kind of “strong” are you?
Strength is relative.
Distance runners talk a lot about feeling “strong” in the last mile of a race.
While weightlifters laugh. ‘You call that strength, huh?’
All the while I’ve referred to people I practice yoga alongside as having a “strong” practice.
But wouldn’t precisely label some of them as being strong.
Where does it hurt?

Where does it hurt?
Rack up enough gym time and you’re gonna get injured.
Sure as the sun’ll come up.
And when that injury happens someone (Doc, Trainer, Mom) is gonna ask, ‘where does it hurt?’. Surely the cure for what ails you lies right there beneath the pain.
Like X marks the spot.
If only our bodies were that direct.