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Chickening out

To say there has been a lot going on in my life in the last week, is an understatement. On par, I wasn't getting a whole lot of sleep and in typical fashion I found some trouble to get myself into last night which didn't get me much sleep.  So the one day I usually have to catch up on sleep and relax was pretty busy with brunch with a dear friend and then my usual yoga and dinner with my best friend.  I pondered for a bit of bailing on brunch, but its only taken this friend and I about 3 months to find a day for brunch that we were both free and I really miss him since we don't see each other at work anymore, so that seemed like a bad idea.  Then I thought about yoga.  And having skipped it a bit lately, I was a little intimidated by going yoga.  On a good day, my practice at Down Dog is pretty intense but here I was short on sleep and energy....and I was letting my yoga practice intimidate me.  I thought "I'll just use the broken toe as my excuse."  While its not a whole lot of fun to roll over the toe going from down to up dog, it hasn't limited me from anything else.  I was finding an excuse to not do something that is a crucial element to my training.  I shook that thought and decided I'd feel better for going.  The irony.  I have no problem being punched, kicked, choked, etc but I was afraid to go to yoga.  Clearly Im letting my training get out of balance with my yoga practice.  But I made it to class, it wasn't all that scary but wasn't that easy.

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