You Can't Think About Anything Else

Cracked Grace

Standing in the Now

“When you’re trying to hold yourself up,

you can’t think about anything else.”
On balance poses (and life)—Katryn Miller,Yoga Teacher, Groton, MA

Being off-balance is scary. We’re afraid of falling. In life, when it’s difficult to find balance, to hold ourselves up, it is important that we not think about anything else except achieving and holding that balance.

When standing in a yoga pose, one leg raised, one foot on the ground, if I think about what I’m doing, I teeter to the right, then to the left—my thoughts unbalance me and I begin to fall.

When holding myself up in life, if I think about what I’m doing, I teeter to the right, then to the left—my thoughts unbalance me and I begin to fall.

“When you’re trying to hold yourself up,

you can’t think about anything else.”

Tree Pose