Alchemist's Room

I want to share this with all of you, because it was a huge moment for me.

The other day I shared my first publication ever on a big site, you may have heard of it, its called Elephant Journal. My publication is titled: Overcoming our fears in two simple steps; what my phobia of spiders taught me. (like and share of you have a moment- 🤗)

On my last paragraph I wrote: "I overcame my phobia, and although I might not be ready to hold a spider in my hands just yet, I am no longer paralyzed by them, and I even name them."

That same day I was in my bathroom and something was walking on my arm, so I looked and it was a baby spider, I mean baby, it was small, I almost could not see it, slowly and with care I moved and put it…

One of the many things Yoga teaches us is that when we feel discomfort, we can follow it with compassion and curiosity to know its location, we move and stretch, twist and bend, we listen to our bodies and follow its instructions to heal, we don’t impose our belief’s; and if we do we quickly learn that our “ego” don’t know a thing and that only by quieting the ego-mind and paying attention to all that is going on is that we are able to connect with the discomfort and find how to heal it; or we can completely avoid the discomfort -limiting our practice, slowing our growth, and leaving us full of body aches for the following days.

In our daily life’s we have the same two options, we either follow the discomfort or avoid it.

For some reason we have gotten use to the discomfort, and we also…