clone of me

I went walking with my friend this morning and chatted at a café afterwards.

We started talking about “self -improvement” and it reminded me how I coincidentally found and read the book “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle in my late twenties and was blown away at the concept that I can practice observing my thoughts as if they were not my own and make a choice to believe them or not. Ever since then I have been slightly addicted to reading so-called “self-help books.”

When I started practicing Yoga, what drew me to continue the practice was the “self-examination” part that I actually had no idea that Yoga was a part of when I walked into my first Yoga class.

It has been well over 10 years since I started practicing “self-help” and Yoga. I think the progress you make with this kind of work is very gradual and often unnoticeable.

Today is day 127 since I started “staying home” and I felt so grateful today being able to walk under the sun with my dear friend and my cute “client” Kona enjoying the gorgeous view… I also wondered how a clone version of me that hadn’t been practicing “self-help” and Yoga all these years had reacted to this situation we are in right now? There’s no way to know but I have a gut feeling that it has been well worth all these years of practice.