5 Things I Learned About Money From Yoga

In 10 years of practicing yoga, I have also learned a lot about money. So in this article I talk about 5 things that yoga has taught me about money. Take a look at these things.

In many cases, abundance is nothing more than a state of mind.

I have enough money, food, warmth, love and shelter to live my life. Through yoga, I learned that I have two choices – the first choice is to use them all enough and feel blessed in my life, while the second choice is to regret everything I don’t have. I find that the first option suits me and I hope that you too will find it better than the second. Of course, there may be people who don’t have enough of all these things necessary to live a perfect life. There may be people who don’t have enough food or who don’t have a loving spouse, but are you going to get those things by regretting them? No ? So what’s the point of regretting?

Experiences are more illuminating than things.

When a yoga teacher asks me to stay still for a few moments after a hard chest open and asks me how I feel, I love it. I’ve found that whenever I try to observe my feelings after doing one of my favorite things (i.e. yoga, hiking, or watching Mad Man), I feels better than the feeling that comes after finishing a shopping trip – no matter how small the purchase I made during that trip. This happiness also lasts much longer than the happiness of having bought something favorite. Best of all, it doesn’t boost my ego whereas buying something bigger sometimes can.

Some things are worth every penny in life.

In my opinion, living a healthy life for a long time is an accomplishment in itself and doing or spending something to get there feels like an investment. Without a doubt, I like to spend more money on yoga classes, healthy food, health care and other things that help me stay healthy. Because ultimately, I know these investments will make my life happier in the long run.

Both flexibility and stability are equally important for balance.

I’m lucky to have a fairly flexible body naturally, so to avoid injury, I try to achieve stability in my muscular strength using yoga poses. And for money too, I learned a similar thing: it takes willingness to spend money on the things that matter and a structure to check everything the money is spent on.

Recycling.

A lot, if you disagree with me at this point. But for me, Ahimsa means avoiding unnecessary spending, reusing or recycling things I already own, and buying second-hand things whenever possible. And I never regret my choice – I feel happy when I know how much money I saved doing these things and how many things I have.

Originally posted 2019-12-21 06:26:48 .