Shape Shifter Yoga
It’s not like I was going around walking on my hands or anything. But I WAS able to raise my arm straight up over my head without pain! I wasn’t able to fold myself in two.
I could hardly believe it. But the disappearing aches and pains were only a small part of what I realized that day… THIS is what doubling your energy FEELS like...
But I COULD sit on the floor with my legs stretched out and my back straight. I didn’t have to lean back and support myself on my arms anymore. And I wasn’t living in fear. Picking up boxes from the floor didn’t worry me. I wasn’t scared of “tweaking” something every time I jumped up out of a chair. It didn’t happen all at once, though. It just kind of “crept up” on me. Until one day, while I was dragging the trash out to the curb, I realized… I FEEL GREAT! I seriously felt better than I had in the past 10 years.
And in a 2011 Japanese study, women who practiced yoga scored better on something called the Profile of Mood States questionnaire.
At first, I didn’t really make the connection… It’s kinda like watching a loved one grow older. You don’t notice from day to day. But when you look at an old photo of the person, you suddenly realize how much he or she has changed. I’d been following Kris’s plan, but I guess I was just on auto-pilot — hoping it would work. It’s only when I started trying to figure out why I felt so much better that I clued in. The yoga routine was working! And that’s when I made another amazing discovery. I had WAY more energy than I did just a month before. Without even realizing it, I was no longer having those afternoon crashes. I was SLEEPING better at night too. And my energy was steady throughout the day. It’s almost like I’d been living in a ZOMBIE state before. And I was finally AWAKE again! It makes a lot of sense. A 2004 study published in Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback demonstrated significant improvement in sleep quality among “insomniacs” who added a simple yoga practice to their daily routine.