It’s Time To Heal! This Begins with Curiosity and Humility…

Starting can be the hardest part. I have heard it countless times in yoga classes. The teacher so often starts by saying, “Congrats on making it to your mat, that’s the hardest part.” My reaction when I hear that is equally proud of myself as it is annoyed. Proud that I made it there, because YES, just getting there was pretty damn hard. But also annoyed because it took so much to get there, and knowing that there is still the work of the actual yoga class ahead of me. All of it translates to work, work to begin, work to do. 

So now, in this time where the division between us is impossible to ignore, we acknowledge all that has occurred to date to get us to this place, to the mat. And from there, we begin the work to heal, to unite. 

As David and I reflected on what it takes to keep on keeping on, we identified two states of mind that play a major role - humility and curiosity. We found that humility and curiosity are prerequisites of the work to unite. We remind ourselves that each of us are just one in seven billion, and that truth is humbling. Our perspective and our experience is gravely limited, and so we must start from the place of humility and move into a curious mind. Authentic curiosity can not only create relationships, it can nurture it. And right now, we need a whole lot of both.