Yoga and our reactions

In Yoga, we learn to watch our reactions.
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I was reminded recently yet again, that I have been dealing with this “annoying issue in my knee,” jumping to the conclusion it is a nuisance and something I want to be done with. My reaction has been rehearsed and predictable and yet another way in which the mind functions in habitual pattens. Injury equals bad. While I’ve rolled my eyes at many a teacher that says “an injury is a chance to take care of yourself and feel your body…” I've realized this is a chance to notice my mind. Since I’ve been resting the knee, noticing  how it’s healing and changing, I now have the chance to notice the conditioned response of my mind.
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In Yoga, we learn to watch our reactions.

Skipping ahead to yesterday. 
Lately we’ve been on a hardcore (for musicians and yogis at least) schedule. This flight to that city, that flight home. Package these books to send to those cities. Different flight to different city. Teach…. You get the idea. This is a fabulous situation to find ourselves in but it doesn’t change the fact we’ve been hustling, all the while trying to keep up with a calm and centered yoga practice. 
Tomorrow we head to Arizona for Practice Week, and wanting to hit several deadlines, we were supposed to submit the Gouri Shankar Mukerji book to the printer yesterday. This has been a tremendous effort from several people. Jerome Armstrong, the ever amazing research genius, Rupen, Gouri’s relative, Chitralekha and Irene, who tirelessly translated the texts, Scott and myself. Not to mention the hundreds of people who crowdfunded the publication and are anxiously awaiting the release. We are (well, were) so close to having the book done. After an early morning of final edits, we sat still trying to make a morning deadline happen, only to have the design program crash mid-save. Ok, no biggie. Try again, crash. Ok, getting a little worried. After several computer updates, and a call to the help center, we were told the file was corrupted during the crash and the best we can do is START. AGAIN.

In Yoga, we learn to watch our reactions.

While this is certainly a major setback, it is also an opportunity for us not to loose it. We are disappointed this means the project will be delayed a few weeks, but we are human, computers are machines and I guess these things really happen. 

In Yoga, we learn to watch our reactions.