Sunday, May 20, 2012 ♥
This week, i started my training for the new job scope. it's kinda tough, my trainer has high expectations of me, and the rate that she pushes me is actually quite fast.. and together with the other stuffs that i need to manage, it's kinda tough and i was a bit struggling.. she told me that i have to slowly move slightly out of tt area of in-charge...
the training itself.. it's kinda tough, after just doing one round, my arm was painful and my hand was trembling.. another girl is learning as well.. and i have this feeling that she and her trainer are kinda competitive.. tt gives me a little pressure, and i have been trying to just focus on myself and work on myself; not to be distracted by other people. there have been people asking after me - 'how's ur training' etc.. and yup. definitely i have a lot to study and remember..
the last weeks were kinda struggling.. emotionally and physically.. a lot of instability.. confusion.. and i realised there were some things, be it ideas/beliefs/activities that i try too hard to hold on to.. which stresses me out, stresses people out unknowingly. and a simple thing becomes harder than it seems.
yesterday.. somehow i found my way out.. kinda like enlightenment? not really, it just felt probably like my mind was clearer, my brain was more open, and i could actually really 'hear' what the yoga instructor was talking about - i really could understand what was going on, i felt my body, felt the asanas, felt my breath. it was like finally i was doing yoga. i was just breathing through my poses, just doing yoga.. there were moments definitely, that my thoughts would wonder away.. and then i catch myself and sorta coax myself back to emptiness and focus on the moment.
i think reading this book "Empowering your life with Yoga" really helped me a lot. i like it a lot. i like that it goes into the theory a bit, the practical a bit, teaching us how to do the postures, also sharing with us how it might feel.. his and his students' experiences, and also how to apply it into our life. it's a great book.. i wonder if it's sold anywhere so that i can own it though..
another book i read is 'Message in a Bottle' by Nicholas Sparks. Picked it up cos I watched the "Lucky One" previously, so i was looking for it in the library, wondering if the book version would be better. But there wasn't one, so borrowed 'Message in a Bottle" instead. It's alright.. still kinda "nicholas sparks" like.. not truly realistic.. and storyline is actually kinda similar to the "lucky one" and the ending was kinda... disappointing.. but overall still ok lar.
taking a week off in june, and hoping to be able to book a holiday...
but my sis sighs she's like not really interested and always delaying, which i can probably understand, cos everybody prefers to put their own stuffs as the first priority. but she really should know that in tt case, she can't blame it when it becomes too late for certain things.
sighs.
i'll consider - if i can't manage to book a holiday.. i'd probably cancel my leave... no point staying home stressing myself out.
we've signed up for the jurong lake run together.. a bit disappointed cos she said "let's go training" together.. in the end, she just went running herself.. but nvm.. i will just work on it my own then. sighs.
alright.. have to go and study really hard later!!!! ganbatte!
♥reflected @ 12:08 PM