I am a Liar
Reading Katherine's post from yesterday, I think that if I were to get a tattoo of anything, it would be a reminder: the word Satya (Truthfulness).
I am a chronic exaggerator. Not simple exaggerations, but huge. "I slept like two minutes last night." "I have fifteen bazillion things to do today." I think that a lot of people say things like this, but my guess is it's not quite as often as I do. In fact, I have a bit of a reputation as a chronic exaggerator. Once, while talking with my friend Lisa, I said:
"I do exaggerate a lot, but I correct myself like 95% percent of the time. Well, maybe more like 75."
It took me a second to realize that I was correcting myself in the comment about correcting myself. Upon note, we both starting laughing, but I have never forgot what I doofus I was. Am.
I catch myself lying all the time, usually a second or two after I said them. Here's what I notice: while I am telling the lie, I convince myself that it is true. That is, while telling the lie, I do not think I am telling one. Only right afterward, do I think, wait... that's not entirely accurate. It's as if I hear myself saying it in a detached way, and then nonchalantly correct a different person. It comes down to not being in the moment. To not asking myself, "Is this true?" before I say as opposed to afterwards. My new year's resolutions may be to be more generous, but my life resolution is to be more honest with myself and with others.
I am a chronic exaggerator. Not simple exaggerations, but huge. "I slept like two minutes last night." "I have fifteen bazillion things to do today." I think that a lot of people say things like this, but my guess is it's not quite as often as I do. In fact, I have a bit of a reputation as a chronic exaggerator. Once, while talking with my friend Lisa, I said:
"I do exaggerate a lot, but I correct myself like 95% percent of the time. Well, maybe more like 75."
It took me a second to realize that I was correcting myself in the comment about correcting myself. Upon note, we both starting laughing, but I have never forgot what I doofus I was. Am.
I catch myself lying all the time, usually a second or two after I said them. Here's what I notice: while I am telling the lie, I convince myself that it is true. That is, while telling the lie, I do not think I am telling one. Only right afterward, do I think, wait... that's not entirely accurate. It's as if I hear myself saying it in a detached way, and then nonchalantly correct a different person. It comes down to not being in the moment. To not asking myself, "Is this true?" before I say as opposed to afterwards. My new year's resolutions may be to be more generous, but my life resolution is to be more honest with myself and with others.
I am a Liar
Consequentially, my most common physically ailment is a sore throat. I get them all of the time. Connected? Honestly (ha!), I don't know. Might be.
- Begin in any comfortable seated position
- Om three times
- Keeping the eyes closed, draw small figure 8's with the tip of your nose. Repeat drawing them in the other direction
- Ear to one shoulder, opposite hand to floor (neck stretch)
- Repeat other side
- Baddha Konasana (Bound Angle Pose). Don't come into the forward fold; grab the legs or feet and open the chest
- Gentle twist in Baddha Konasana
- Parigasana (Gate Pose). Revolve top arm in circles to warm up shoulder. Hold pose.
- Cat/cow spine
- Repeat Gate other side
- Camel prep: Come onto knees, take one hand to opposite ankle or heel. Flow between sides.
- Ustrasana (Camel Pose)
- Cat/cow spine in table
- Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog Pose)
- Urdhva Mukha Svanasana (Upward Facing Dog Pose)
- Flow, gently and slowly, between steps 14 and 15
- Child's Pose
- Setu Bandhasana (Bridge Pose)
- Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand Pose)
- Halasana (Plow Pose)
- Matsyasana (Fish Pose)
- Supta Matsyendrasana (Reclined Spinal Twist). Repeat other side
- Savasana
