3 New Habits I have been trying
Before the lock down my life was crazily overwhelming and super busy. Running our own Vegetarian Cafe – Nanna’s Cafe in Rishikesh India, working as a document writer and trainer and also providing my Yoga Therapy services to my clients.
As the lock down hit in the first thing that popped to my head was well, now it is the time to slow down, now is the time to get back to myself, work on my personal Yoga practice and give back to me.
The 1st Thing - Getting back to myself
For myself the lockdown came at the right time. After closing the café and making all the arrangements to store all equipment (a crazy week) I set a schedule for myself. Practice Yoga twice a day, set a time in the afternoon to learn anatomy and physiology, sleep for 1 hour or practice Yoga Nidra (conscious relaxation) and eat healthy cleansing food to reset my body. Afternoon time we also dedicated some fun time playing badminton on the roof terrace or some other games. Wow it felt like going back to my childhood times.
Actually it worked pretty well and this year was a total focus on how to really aim to bring back a balanced life. I always fall into the trap of working too much, pushing myself to an extreme that my mind and body cannot handle which will end into stress. I love working and creating and I can slip into that very easily. But after a burn out few years back I had begged myself to be totally aware of this and take the necessary adjustments immediately.
If we allow that balance into our lifes we are totally happier, healthy, can preserve body and mind and absolutely be more creative and not get into some rat race of just ticking of task list. But actually living the life.
So I’m happy that the past year I managed to stick to this new action and really making it a positive habit to take care of myself first.
The 2nd thing – Setting my own online Biz!
Since 2 years discussion where going about setting up an online platform to help people through Yoga and create like minded community. This all started with a group of friends and although there has been great discussions and ideas it seemed that this project could never kick start properly. Luckily my friend is very understandable and she totally accepted the fact that I was not feeling connected anymore to this project. At times it is very hard to say stop and no like in this instance. It is like there is a force within saying this is no longer for me but from the logical and conscious mind there is a feeling of guilt and doubt.
I followed my instincts though it was a hard decision and left this project. The other source of income also stopped due to changes happening within the company. Since I had already experienced such thing I was not in an alarm or panic. Also during lock down I had done quite good work on myself to learn and be patient, being still and understand the next steps. So that is what I did!
Asking for guidance in my next path this course came into my face out of nowhere. Since long time I had dreamt to create my own online course. Since I left my full time career in the banking world there has been an idea brewing to help people in the corporate world in their careers. To be more clear and well balanced. Be successful yet taking care of themselves and their health. Earn money but not to spend it on just living like a robot but earning and living a great life of happiness, joy, dedication and success.
There I was creating my own online course, putting together all the info from my head to the paper. A collection of ideas that had been brewing. With guidance from this mentor, my intuition and knowledge this course was born – The Confident Woman Entrepreneur Mentoring. I was totally in awe of myself. And as I launched the idea I had great clients who enrolled and really enjoying the benefits. More work definitely is to be done especially from the marketing aspect, but taking it day by day, learning, growing and believing in myself. Patient, practicing affirmation, learn new skills – I know it will work.
The 3rd thing
Worrying seems to be a common factor amongst many. And here I can say Yes me too! Sometimes I can be a bomb of worry, other times where I really do not care. Since childhood I never liked this feeling, I know no one likes it. But I hated especially if I see my mum worrying. We used to end up arguing. My aim was only to help her but due to my annoying feeling of seeing her suffer I hated it. Anyways I guess One of my purposes of Yoga studies is to help people get out of this cycle, the unnecessary cycle of worry and take things less seriously . I believe this the root of all issues. But like any other human being me too I get all caught up on this. But if you really stop and think you can ask yourself – What is this worry going to bring me? No solutions for sure and will give you more stress, sadness, dullness eventually leading to diseases. So this is the third thing that this year I wanted to work more on. First for myself and secondly to be able to share with others proofed techniques to get rid of these worries.
So I did some deep work on myself through a variety of techniques. When trying to change a habit the conscious or objective mind is there to raise its voice. It is like the conscious mind finds comfort in worry. I started to feel strange initially like when you stop smoking, drinking or reducing certain food to become more healthy. It is like that thing is calling you and saying ‘Oh come on, it’s just this one time please let me worry a bit’! Sometimes it felt like giving up cause working on behaviors is not the easiest thing in the world but it is definitely possible and most satisfying!
So this year was the great year where I really decided to take the leap and this time set properly my business, invest wisely and put together amazing work to really help who need support, a helping hand when you don’t know what to do – so reach out and tell me your situation so I can help get to the better version of yourself!