How we react to dramas, sensations, the impulses we have to the sensations on the mat are often how we react at other times in our lives when we face great challenges. Maybe you run away from what is happening, perhaps try to change it, give up and suffer through it, or accept it. In our Yin practice, when we really want to come out, if we pay very close attention, we start to notice how we want something else other than what is happening right now. We notice whether we are mentally hiding (running away), or moving to a different position (changing something).  Do we stay still but get upset and begin negative and judgmental self-talk (suffering through), or do you finally decide that at this moment in your life, this is what you are meant to be experiencing?

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