Just a moment longer...

The little tag on my green tea this morning said, "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It seemed a particularly appropriate thought for the day when I reflected on the way Gina always reminds us that we can hold certain asanas longer than we think we can -- if we just get beyond our own thinking, our own pattern of resistance to anything that's challenging. It seems to me that we all have a far greater capacity than we acknowledge...and we often attribute others' successes to some mysterious "it" factor that we don't have, when in fact it could just be that they have stopped thinking they can't do it.

I am always on the lookout (particularly during the cleanse) for those moments when I am tempted to congratulate myself for my lifestyle, my yoga practice, my diet, whatever...to take something that should be for the good of all and use it as an ego-fortifier rather than illusion-remover. Because the truth is that we all have the capability to do this cleanse and immersion and many other amazing feats if we would just breathe into them and believe rather than hold our breath and listen to the "little I."