30 Minutes of Blissful Yoga/Day 52
I had taken a break from yoga, but I have recently started getting back into it.
I am currently following Mariko-sensei, who is well-known in the yoga community.
I am specifically doing yoga for the autonomic nervous system, and it feels absolutely amazing...
The music is great, and Mariko-sensei's voice naturally flows into my body.
I believe that voice compatibility is important, so when I find an instructor whose voice helps me relax, I feel like my body aligns much better.
It was only 30 minutes, but I felt incredibly relaxed and my mood settled down.*・
I had been wondering why yoga makes me feel so good, and I think it's because by focusing my awareness inward instead of outward, I enter a meditative state.
Being aware of the path of my breath.
Feeling the length of my inhales and exhales.
Expanding the image of massaging my internal organs with my breath.
Savoring the sensation of my muscles stretching and contracting.
By experiencing the sensations of my own body that I often forget, I am wrapped in an indescribable sense of happiness afterward (sometimes I even fall asleep while wrapped in it... lol).
When I am working on the PC, I strain my eyes, and I often end up looking at my smartphone afterward, which just makes me even more tired...
However, since my body seems to be on the sensitive side, I felt that I really need to calm down the sensations of excitement caused by blue light and noise.
That is why I do yoga precisely when I am tired.
Knowing how I feel afterward makes me think I should do it, but I am quite sluggish, so it takes me a while to get started.
So, I will try to be mindful of doing yoga after finishing a major work task, and without being lazy, I will properly roll out my yoga mat and create 'time to cherish myself'.
The realization that I am taking care of my body might also be what is creating this sense of happiness.
By the way, when I look at the PC screens of people around me, I sometimes see people with their brightness set to the maximum. Isn't that hard on their eyes...?
I always work with the brightness set to about three or four notches up from the dimmest setting, so when I have to use someone else's device, it's so bright that I wince.
Is everyone living in such intense light...?