The days I least wanted to practice were often before my best sessions. A year of journaling showed me this.

The resistance wasn't failure, it was a signal.

Does resistance ever feel like a doorway to you?

Read the full essay

https://medium.com/@clarainsweden/the-practice-journal-i-kept-for-a-year-1989f427f473

#yogajournal #resistance #practicemindset
#yogapractice #dailydiscipline #practicejournal
#mindfulness #contemplativewriting #selfawareness

Do you know how often you want to quit your practice? I do, because I wrote it down.

Naming it across twelve months of entries stripped away its power.

What pattern in your practice have you never named?

#yogapractice #consistency #practicemindset
#dailydiscipline #yogalife #practicejournal
#mindfulness #contemplativewriting #honestpractice

One entry I wrote as a failure turned out to be the most important sentence in the notebook.

It said: practiced for twenty minutes. Nothing happened. But I stayed.

When did showing up without results teach you something?

#yogapractice #discipline #showingup
#contemplativepractice #dailypractice #meditationpractice
#yogajournal #practicejournal #mindfulness

One entry I wrote as a failure turned out to be the most important sentence in the notebook.

It said: practiced for twenty minutes. Nothing happened. But I stayed.

When did showing up without results teach you something?

#yogapractice #discipline #showingup
#contemplativepractice #dailypractice #meditationpractice
#yogajournal #practicejournal #mindfulness

Do you know how often you want to quit your practice? I do, because I wrote it down.

Naming it across twelve months of entries stripped away its power.

What pattern in your practice have you never named?

#yogapractice #consistency #practicemindset
#dailydiscipline #yogalife #practicejournal
#mindfulness #contemplativewriting #honestpractice