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June 2009 
Simplifying for the New year? Maybe not just yet.
Posted on Jan 4th, 2009
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Tasha
Tasha
I have been reflecting lately, with a snow storm and school/work/teaching being on winter break, how simple my life has been recently. I've had time to bake, to call friends, to respond to blog posts, to read and sip tea snuggled with my cats. To simply be. And be present. Fully present.
I know for a fact this cannot sustain itself into the New Year. Once school/work/teaching/teacher training/life starts back up, the hustle for 7 hours of sleep, checking e-mails, returning calls, making sure I am doing well to get that scholarship to pay for school, all while having time for my husband and home life starts. The wheels starts to turn faster, the migraines return. The guilt of not meditating returns (such a paradox really!).
So, how do we balance this want in our lives for simplicity without giving up the need and want to live fully in our lives? One of the main reasons I am back in school is to simplify in the end. And to have a job that helps people while also paying the mortgage! So that I am not working part-time at a soul-sucking job, while teaching yoga part-time, which I love, but pays so little and takes up a lot of energy. So that I can have a job that also allows time for some volunteer work. So, I suppose I am sacrificing 3 years of simplicity and ease for the rest of my life being a little less complicated.
Also, as I try and get scholarships, I keep asking myself how people do it. As I see the urge to volunteer more, do more, get better grades that students today face, WHILE working and sometimes raising families, I wonder what the world is asking of us? Have we become a mutli-tasking monster of a society? Are our brains evolving to be able to cope with the constant firing of neurons with all of this information overload? Or is all of this scurrying detrimental to our health?
For me, in 2009 and beyond, only time will tell. But I look forward to simplicity, when it returns. Until then, I savor those few quiet, still moments- in my yoga practice, while my students are in Savasana, or at dawn, before the cars start their movement, and the world awakens for more multi-tasking.
I know for a fact this cannot sustain itself into the New Year. Once school/work/teaching/teacher training/life starts back up, the hustle for 7 hours of sleep, checking e-mails, returning calls, making sure I am doing well to get that scholarship to pay for school, all while having time for my husband and home life starts. The wheels starts to turn faster, the migraines return. The guilt of not meditating returns (such a paradox really!).
So, how do we balance this want in our lives for simplicity without giving up the need and want to live fully in our lives? One of the main reasons I am back in school is to simplify in the end. And to have a job that helps people while also paying the mortgage! So that I am not working part-time at a soul-sucking job, while teaching yoga part-time, which I love, but pays so little and takes up a lot of energy. So that I can have a job that also allows time for some volunteer work. So, I suppose I am sacrificing 3 years of simplicity and ease for the rest of my life being a little less complicated.
Also, as I try and get scholarships, I keep asking myself how people do it. As I see the urge to volunteer more, do more, get better grades that students today face, WHILE working and sometimes raising families, I wonder what the world is asking of us? Have we become a mutli-tasking monster of a society? Are our brains evolving to be able to cope with the constant firing of neurons with all of this information overload? Or is all of this scurrying detrimental to our health?
For me, in 2009 and beyond, only time will tell. But I look forward to simplicity, when it returns. Until then, I savor those few quiet, still moments- in my yoga practice, while my students are in Savasana, or at dawn, before the cars start their movement, and the world awakens for more multi-tasking.
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