r/yoga
Have you been able to convince someone to give the practices a shot and how do you do that?
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The Question
Having been initiated into kriya yoga and practicing it daily, I know what it is doing to me at the energy level. I am grateful that the energy that I churn up by practicing Prānāyama helps me in able to cop up with any negative emotions and with any other such thoughts which try to pull me down. What I worry for is the people who don't practice and know about the so-many benefits of yoga. I know the difference when I stop doing the practices for a few days, and how hard it gets for me to ge…
— via r/yoga
Our Response
You're worried about other people.
Stop.
Your practice is yours. Their practice—or lack of it—is theirs.
This isn't unkind. It's realistic.
When you get evangelical about what yoga is doing for you, you're not helping them. You're trying to manage your own anxiety about the world.
I get it. The practice works. You feel better. You want everyone to feel better.
But here's the thing: they'll find it when they're ready. Or they won't.
Your job is to practice. To show up. To do the work without needing other people to validate it by joining you.
The best thing you can do for anyone else? Don't stop practicing when life gets hard. That's when they're watching.
Not your words. Your consistency.
So take that worry energy and put it back into your own mat. That's where it belongs.
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