How do you view the mistakes that you have made?
Are they past embarrassments that forced you to become afraid to make them?
Do you ruminate on them as if you can go back in time and make different choices?
Have you learned that it is wrong to make a mistake, which is why you fight so hard not to make them?
Mistakes are a part of life. We all make mistakes and we all would, also, like to not have made them. Our past can be full of moments where we wish we could have made different choices. In making mistakes and allowing the self to learn from those mistakes, we take back the power we give to the negative ideas they present.
- Repeat after me... "There is no such thing as a perfect human being. There is no such thing as a perfect human being. There is no such thing as a perfect human being."
It is not wrong to make mistakes. It is a requirement of the experience of living. Mistakes are not burdens unto themselves but they do introduce a greater awareness of our resolve when faced with the realization that a mistake has been made.
There is nothing wrong with being wrong.
There is nothing wrong with falling.
There is nothing wrong with making a poor choice from a different perspective.
Lessons are learned on the back of the mistakes that we make. They don’t have to be problems. They are mistakes, and there is nothing positive in being afraid to make them. There, then, comes the need to find the strength to take accountability for the mistakes that we make, when they are made. This is difficult because it asks us to sit with the self in a posture that doesn’t overwhelm the perspective self from which it (the self and the mistake) is viewed.
Live your life.
Make your mistakes.
Learn from those, and then make some more.
If we pay close enough attention, we can find answers to problems and questions in the face of the mistakes that we make.
Try not to be afraid to make them and never avoid learning from them.
-Yogabrofessor
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