It was a Monday, unremarkable in every way until she stopped me on my way in to teach Power Yoga.
“This is maybe going to sound crazy, but I promise I’m not crazy…” and as a teacher and practitioner of yoga, I believed her wholeheartedly. The amount of things I have heard over the last two plus years of teaching and learning in the more traditional setting that a former version of myself may have thought wacky, is astonishing. The amount of phrases and spoken wandering thoughts I have come up with in that time that a former version of myself would think is absolutely bonkers, is astonishing. And yet, I do not believe myself to be crazy, just learning, yearning to see what’s beneath the surface in anyone and everyone that will allow me too look deeply, including myself.
It was one word, she said, that I used during the only yoga class she had ever attended with me, one word that changed her. It had been a hard year, many of the things she had set as goals went unreached, there was struggle, and yet there was a word, set as an intention for an hour and encouraged to hold space for the year to come that kept her going.
Awareness. You don’t even know how much I needed that, how much your words that day encouraged me, how many times I have seen you going about your day wanting to say so. She was right, I did not know, and yet I did, because at the end of the day I am on this path because of one word, when I needed it most.
And incidentally, it wasn’t until today, when she publicly declared that this next year would be met with courage, that she found the words to say so. She repeated, again and again, you just don’t know the impact that you have had on me, but I just needed to try to tell you.
Do you know the impact you have on others? Do you meet them with kindness and compassion or fierceness and cruelty. Do you know that one word can change the trajectory of life for good or bad? Can you even believe how powerful we are?
Most importantly, as we creep into 2019, how do you want to live, how do you want to impact others, what is your word?
Finding Om in the OMG 