我為什麼開始瑜伽？why I started to do yoga?

現在的我每天都瑜伽，這樣的日子已經持續七年了，每天給完全屬於自己的二十分鐘，好好的感受每一個肌肉，好好的呼吸，好好的跟自己對話。

第一次體驗瑜伽；並不是七年前，而是在大學一年級的時候（竟然已經是十年前了）。當時體育課修到的課是舞蹈，結束時總會做一點簡單的瑜伽伸展，雖然覺得有趣，並沒有感到自己就是要做瑜伽。

真正的契機是在大學四年級的時候發生的一場車禍，因為精神不佳在早上要去打工的路上摔車，車禍造成腿部受傷，有三個月的時間走路移動不太方便，雖然只是小車禍沒有造成生命危險，在腳非常疼痛無法行走躺在床上的時候，覺得很無助，也後悔以前的生活方式，常熬夜，沒有好好照顧自己，才造成車禍，突然哇哇大哭了一場，下定決心接下來的日子要把自己照顧好，便選擇了瑜伽作為自己生活的一部分。

剛開始如同任何一種習慣的培養，每天要不停的提醒自己，沒有時間或是很累的時候強迫自己要繼續維持瑜伽的習慣，有時候忙完已經半夜了，還是要瞇著眼睛把一套簡單的瑜伽完成，半年後，身體習慣每天要有瑜伽，晚上沒有瑜伽睡不著，總覺得少了什麼。

要每天維持看起來很難，但是當我告訴自己，一整天就只有這個時間是讓腦袋完全清空，只有好好的感覺身體，讓辛苦的身心可以享受這個時間，就可以繼續做下去。

另一方面也是自我紀律的培養，當你下定決定做一件事的時候，實際去完成，實現自己的諾言，自己心裡的對自己的感覺會被大大的提升，是一種自信，知道自己可以做到的感覺，外在也會不知不覺因為自己的紀律而散發出有力量的氣質。

It has been seven years since I started to do yoga every day. Every day, it is 20 minutes that I give to myself, that I feel every piece of my body and that is the time I talk to myself.

The first experience of yoga was not seven years ago but when I was a freshman in university (I can not believe it was already ten years ago). At that time physical education class was mandatory, so I attended a dance class, and we did a bit of yoga and stretched at the end of course. That was my first meet with yoga, and I had no idea that I will be doing yoga every day a few years later.

The turning point was a car accident in my fourth grade in university. Due to an exhausted mind, I fell down on my way to a part-time job in the early morning. My leg was hurt, and there was about 3 month that I can not move easily. Though it was a small accident and was not harmful to my life, it causes inconvenience in my daily life. On the day my leg was painful, and I was laying on my bed, I felt so regret of my original lifestyle that I stayed up late all the time and didn’t take care of myself, in the end, my exhausted body and mind made the accident happen. Then I started to cry and cry like a baby. At the moment I made a decision to live my life with yoga and keep myself healthy.

Like every habit, when you started to cultivate it, you have to put a lot of effort. Sometimes I was tired and had no time, I force myself to finish a single cycle of yoga. Sometimes I was doing yoga with my squinting eyes. A half year later, I got used to a life with yoga every day. It will be not comfortable when you didn’t do yoga a day.

It seems very difficult to keep the habit. However, I told myself this is the only time in a day that I let my mind be blank and relax my whole body, let the joy enter in my body and mind, I can keep doing it.

On the other hand, it is a way to make discipline for yourself. Once you made a goal and did walk your talk, it will make you feel so good, the action will increase your confidence. And this confidence and discipline will make yourself shine from inside to outside.

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