Decisions & Discipline

I wonder sometimes what my life might be like now had I never started my health and wellness journey.  Would I still be in a toxic marriage, still smoking, still drinking, still numbing and distracting.

I remember vividly the day I was sitting on the couch and a voice inside me said - I have all the information I need (I really did, I had been reading about health and wellness online for quite some time and as many of you know there is no lack of information out there) I needed to start doing something.

It takes 6 weeks of practice to notice any physical changes to your body and 40 days to rewire your neural pathways to change your habits.

There are no shortcuts or quick fixes.  Despite what you might hear.

True lasting change comes down to one fundamental thing that we all already know…

Discipline!

The discipline to make yourself the most important thing in your life.  To make your health and wellness a priority - because that is the foundation that will support everything else in your life.

I first started by going to the gym every morning.  But I still felt bloated and icky by the end of the day.  Next, I tried intermittent fasting - this really changed the game and helped me lose the 15 extra pounds that was too much for my skeletal system to be carrying around.

Eventually I found my way to yoga.  Yoga at Motion Fitness, and online with Yoga with Adriene.  I fell in love with the practice immediately and eventually my entire health and wellness routine became centered around yoga.

Yoga did not just provide me with the amazing physical benefits of extra energy, no bloating, a relaxed feeling throughout my entire body - but yoga also was working its way into my mind.  

The more I continued my practice, the more my mind was healing, And the more my mind healed the calmer it got until eventually it got quiet enough that I was finally able to hear my soul.

As I poured my energy into my practice my practice began to support my life.  It was as if knots within me were finally being undone.  I was relaxing into who I really was.  I began to easily see what was harming me and what was supporting me.

I created a feedback loop in my own experience where I saw myself doing good things for me and taking care of me and putting me first and then I would not accept any less from the world around me.  

When I was quitting smoking I put up sticky notes all around my house that said, “if you don’t make the right decision now, you never will”. 

I feel like that is true for everything really.  Your healing begins the moment you make the decision, and discipline is the commitment to make the right decision over and over and over again…

Until one day you wake up in a whole new life designed from the inside out.  Designed with Intention to support your greatest joy!

Please visit www.intentions-yoga.ca to begin creating your intentional life of joy.  Help has arrived!