How Yoga Cured My Burnout
For six years, I had two jobs. It was the
most devastating period of my life, being a mom and having two jobs
Before that, I was a devoted English
teacher, believing that my job made a difference. By the end of the sixth year,
however, I felt like being in a treadmill. I realized had burnout syndrome, but
I just didn’t know what to do about it.
Then, on a spur of the moment, I ordered
a yoga DVD and started a home practice. Mind you, I am 45 years old and have
never been interested in working out. Somehow, though, practicing yoga had been
always on my mind as something I would like to try.
Here are some ways yoga has changed my
life.
1. I got rid of the feeling recklessness.
After the first two weeks of yoga
practice, I observed that the recklessness, the stress that I am always behind
of schedule and never on time with anything had disappeared. In addition to
having more energy to keep me going during the day, I felt much calmer.
At this point, I was only practicing yoga
twice a week, mostly at the weekends.
2. Time expanded.
Before starting my yoga practice, I
always felt like time was melting, slipping out of my hands. I never knew how
the minutes and hours passed without me accomplishing anything productive.
Yoga gave me precious minutes and hours,
time became a dimension again, and I found myself accomplishing even more than
I proposed to do during the day.
3. I began making the right decisions.
As breathing cleared my mind and
thinking, I realized there was a need for me to change my lifestyle. Giving up
on the second job came naturally as a logical decision that I do not regret.
Doing so has helped me concentrate more on what was most important for me—my
family.
4. My burnout disappeared.
I didn’t even realize when it happened,
but one morning, I found myself smiling, wanting to go to school and looking
forward to teaching the children. I was cured.
Everything had happened so naturally, so
smoothly. No fight, no medication was involved in the process. Doing yoga on a
regular basis simply made me a calmer, happier, and more energetic person who
could enjoy both her work and her free time.
Sometimes I think, ”I wish I had
discovered yoga earlier in my life,” but I am certain that it came to me in the
right time. I do yoga now almost every morning, and have longer practices twice
a week
Yoga has saved me and continues to save
me from being a bitter middle-aged teacher, a grumpy wife, and an unbearable
mom, so I keep on doing it—you might want to try it, too.
By: Bogi Kassai
Source:Doyouyoga
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