HOLISTIC LOVE YOGA

I wish I’d been able to get messy years ago, I would’ve saved myself a lot of heartache. For years everything I did or wanted to do was held up against an impossible yard stick. My meagre attempts at creating - writing, performing (and teaching when it came to it), was compared to everyone else’s and usually against people who had become masters of their craft. Can you see how pointless that is? Every way I wanted to express myself had to be the grandest most incredible thing anyone had ever seen or read or felt and the problems with this are plentiful. There was a pride in my labelling myself a perfectionist. ‘Oh I’m a perfectionist,’ didn’t mean I spent weeks labouring over the tiniest nuance, tweaking minor details until – et voila – I offer up the most sublime version of what I had been working on. No. It meant I stayed frozen, circumventing an idea I’d been given and never acting on it because fear is real. A need for perfection can be a very powerful strategy of fea...

Is there something you’d like to do or achieve with your life? Do you nurse secret fantasies of writing a book, becoming a champion surfer or a Neurolinguistic Wizard? ‘They’ say anything is possible so even if you’ve never picked up a pen, grew up in landlocked Droylsden or are like…wizard what? You have the potential to achieve whatever it is your heart is whispering to you. ‘Nothing is impossible, the very word itself says ‘I’m Possible.’ (Audrey Hepburn). Thanks Ms Hepburn, indeed. Human beings are wired for growth. The great Patriarch David Attenborough when asked, in all his years of studying the glorious biodiversity of Planet Earth, what is the most impressive thing he knows answered: The Human Baby: "The rate at which it grows. The rate at which it learns. The rate at which it acquires nerves. It is the most complex and the most extraordinary of all creatures. Nothing compares to it." (DA) Nothing compares to it. You! Me! Imagine that. Some days ju...