Thinking is overrated.
It always has been.
We learn how to think.
And, above all, how to think a lot.
Yet hardly anyone teaches us how to let our thoughts go.
Or that our thoughts are simply thoughts.
Not the truth.
Most people suffer from an advanced thinking disorder.
They believe everything they think.
And they build their lives around it.
Many believe they still have something to accomplish.
Become more successful.
More attractive.
Slimmer.
Wealthier.
Happier.
Life always seems to point somewhere else.
Some place where everything will finally be better.
But where is that place?
As long as we search for happiness and contentment outside ourselves, we are chasing an illusion.
That illusion is created by our own minds.
And that is our greatest problem.
As long as we believe life must change before we can be happy, we remain prisoners of our thoughts.
What often happens when people discover they have little time left to live?
Something disappears.
The hope that life will one day become exactly the way they imagined.
And what takes its place?
The realization that this present moment is all they truly have.
Suddenly, the small and ordinary things become precious.
A ray of sunshine.
A smile.
A single breath.
Someone you love.
Isn't it sad that so many people recognize this truth only when life is coming to an end?
Why not begin today?
That is what yoga is really about.
Not becoming someone else.
But finally coming home to yourself.
And this is exactly why Naked Yoga is such a powerful practice.
Not because it involves being naked.
But because nakedness reveals the masks we wear.
It shows us how many stories we believe about our bodies, about ourselves, and about other people.
With every practice, you become a little more able to let those thoughts come and go.
You stop fighting yourself.
You no longer need to perform.
You no longer need to hide.
You no longer need to prove anything.
And that is where something beautiful begins.
Lightness.
Freedom.
A deep sense of happiness and contentment.
Not someday.
Right here.
Right now.
Love,
Your Elke
😘
