Yoga empowers you to embrace your unique journey and teaches you how not to compare yourself to others. It helps you realize that you are on your own incredible path while others are on theirs.
Did you get a better grade on your test than everyone else?
What's everyone else wearing to the party?
Where is everyone else going to college?
What is everyone else doing for a living?
All of these questions set me up to live a life of comparison.
I didn’t want to carry that.
So I didn’t.
But just as yoga is a practice, not comparing yourself to others is also a practice. Comparing has become a competition to see who wore it better, did it better and has it better.
In the age of social media, how do you not compare? If you have a social media account, it’s almost a given that you're in some way sizing yourself up with your friends and family members.
Look, there are more than 8 billion people on this planet, and we’re each living our own beautifully unique lives. Constant comparison is not fair to ourselves or to other people.
I challenge you to follow a different standard. Your own.
This is what I do on my yoga mat that helps me in the rest of my life. I don’t compare my practice with the yoga practice of others. We all arrive on our mats and in our lives with different needs, and so it doesn’t serve us to compare ourselves to our neighbors. We are all on a different journey. In yoga, we leave our egos at the door.
One of my favorite signs sitting on my desk says:
Be You
Do You
For You
I love this sign because we’re not here to compare. We’re here to understand and know ourselves and each other, and to maximize our potential to better ourselves and humanity.
The next time you find yourself comparing yourself to others, take a deep inhale, and as you exhale, flush it out and let it go.
You’re not less than; you’re more than you could ever imagine.
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Practice It: Journal About It: How Not to Compare Yourself to Others
We are all made wonderfully unique, which makes the world vibrant and beautiful. How are you unique? What are the first things that come to mind? How do you celebrate your unique qualities? Get out your journal and jot down your thoughts.
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