One of the first things I look for when I move to a new place is a place where I can do yoga. I try to find a place close to where I live, with a reasonable price and with good teachers. So far, I've been lucky in the places I've gone to. In Zurich, it was the ETH Zurich yoga classes. In Stockholm, I went to Friskis and Svettis. Now in Saarbrücken, I found the University Saarland classes to be a good fit.
It always gives a different energy to go to a live class, and it helps a lot when teachers correct your poses real-time. However, it takes a lot of time and expense to go to yoga classes so to augment my yoga learning and to further work on my stretches, I do yoga at home with the help of free yoga classes available online. You can just look for them on www.youtubecom. My favorite online yoga teacher is Esther Ekhart. You can find a lot of her online classes on youtube or at her website www.ekhartyoga.com. I have also been following the www.myyogaonline.com classes -- they are giving away 25 days of free yoga this December. Really nice routines!
The web has really changed how we do things. A lot of things you can now learn and do at home with the best teachers from around the world.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Friday, December 7, 2012
How to be Happy
Why does it seem that I am never completely happy? Wherever I am, whatever I do, whatever I have, whatever I achieve -- I can't help but think that there must be some other better place, some other more fun thing to do, some other thing I still need to have, some other thing I must accomplish.
When I go out shopping and buy something that involves choosing something for myself, like getting shoes or a bag, and walk out the door with my buy, I always wonder -- did I make the right choice? I get the nagging feeling that maybe it is not exactly the right size (or is it?), that another style was better, or that it was too expensive and another shop could have offered a better deal. Most times, given that you can return or exchange most things here, I go back and change it, the size, the type -- but, even after doing that, I am not any happier, and the whole cycle continues.
My husband says that my problem is that I can not handle having too many choices. If I had no choice then I would be happy with what I have. The TED talk of Dan Gilbert: The Surprising Science of Happiness, which I just watched, confirms this. One portion details studies that he made which in the end points out to the idea that if we are stuck with one option, we are happier than when we have several choices. That's it -- my issue exactly. So what to do about it?
Hmmm, would I be happier having only one choice or several choices .... Haha, the cycle continues.
PS. As Sheryl Crow sings it: "It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
PPS. I am happy now, I am finally writing again!
When I go out shopping and buy something that involves choosing something for myself, like getting shoes or a bag, and walk out the door with my buy, I always wonder -- did I make the right choice? I get the nagging feeling that maybe it is not exactly the right size (or is it?), that another style was better, or that it was too expensive and another shop could have offered a better deal. Most times, given that you can return or exchange most things here, I go back and change it, the size, the type -- but, even after doing that, I am not any happier, and the whole cycle continues.
My husband says that my problem is that I can not handle having too many choices. If I had no choice then I would be happy with what I have. The TED talk of Dan Gilbert: The Surprising Science of Happiness, which I just watched, confirms this. One portion details studies that he made which in the end points out to the idea that if we are stuck with one option, we are happier than when we have several choices. That's it -- my issue exactly. So what to do about it?
Hmmm, would I be happier having only one choice or several choices .... Haha, the cycle continues.
PS. As Sheryl Crow sings it: "It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
PPS. I am happy now, I am finally writing again!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
