You’re envious of your friend because she can walk into any room and suddenly, all eyes are on her. She can attract people’s attention with her body language, the way she converses, and her overall confidence.
But what is it that makes her confident? How can you develop these qualities in yourself? Is there life after the imposter syndrome?
Here are a couple of things you should do:
Try doing something new. Take up a new hobby or go on an adventure, or a weekend getaway. Doing something new, even if it’s a very small thing, like taking a new route to work, will help boost your confidence and help you realize you have what it takes to achieve greatness.
Once you try out different things, not only will you feel a sense of greatness, you’ll be happier too!
One of the best things about yoga is that it’s not limited to exercising. Originally, yoga was supposed to help detoxify the soul. I’ve found that helps change your mindset and eliminate negative energy from the mind and body.
It also helps reduce stress and anxiety. Moreover, it’s great for fixing your posture. In a nutshell, it has a significant amount of health benefits.
Learn to generate what you want, instead of reacting to what’s put in front of you. Put yourself in charge and remember you’re doing the picking, not the other way around. Yoga gives you the mental equanimity to see perspective, which will help you to get organized, put yourself in the driver’s seat, and start doing the things you love.
Pursue your dreams; make a plan for your goals. Even the smallest step counts. Take a short break from everything if you can afford to. Unplug yourself and focus on your mental wellbeing.
Empowered women empower other women. Spend time with confident women who inspire and motivate you. Be with women who make you feel positive, happy, and good about yourself.
Try to make more friends so that you’re surrounded by women who bring positive energy in your life.
If you want to learn more about yoga or want to read a novel about it, we recommend Finding Warrior Pose by Priya Doty.
Set in India, Finding Warrior Pose is about a 30-something woman named Jaya Gupta, who is being pressured into getting married by her parents. She soon learns of an old ‘ashram’ that was stolen from her family years earlier.
Determined to learn more, Jaya makes a bold decision to set off on a six-month trip to the ashram to learn yoga, unaware of the dangers that are lying ahead. The book is available on Amazon and Kindle.
Yoga is more than just fancy poses and stretches that the world knows it as. Whether you’re new to the exercise or just want to learn more, you’ve come to the right place!
There are myriad of health benefits to practicing yoga and there are hundreds of things people don’t know about the ancient exercise.
With that in mind, we bet you didn’t know these facts about the practice:
It might be hard to believe but yoga is widely practiced in the US. 1 in 5 American adults participates in what most people believe is an ancient practice.
Yes, that’s right! The yoga Americans practice isn’t part of the ancient practice. It’s been adapted to become mainly for exercise and some of the poses have been added by modern-day yogis.
Even though there’s a common belief that modern day yoga has its roots from thousands of years ago, that’s not true.
Modern postural yoga, the practice of actually holding poses, originated with early 20th century guru Krishnamacharya, who taught a mix of gymnastic and wrestling moves, Western calisthenics and hatha yoga, a medieval practice all but lost in India for centuries.
It’s in hatha yoga, beginning about the 10th century that an emphasis on controlling breath and maintaining certain postures arose. But it has little in common with doing a sun salutation that is taught at gyms today for maintaining abs. Medieval hatha yoga’s goals included divination and attaining immortality.
Not a lot of people are aware of this but the word “yoga” went through several changes before it came to be what we know it as today.
Other meanings include a constellation of stars, the quality of industriousness and even a fraud! That’s not something you’d expect from a word that’s commonly associated with health.
Did you know these facts about yoga? What other facts do you know? Drop a comment below to let us know!
If you want to learn more about yoga or want to read a novel about it, we recommend Finding Warrior Pose by Priya Doty.
Set in India, Finding Warrior Pose is about a young 30-something woman named Jaya Gupta, who is being pressured into getting married by her parents. She soon learns of an old ‘ashram’ that was stolen from her family years earlier.
Determined to learn more, Jaya makes a bold decision to set off on a six-month trip to the ashram to learn yoga, unaware of the dangers that are lying ahead. The book is available on Amazon and Kindle.