The greatest disruptor of your productivity is not social media, email, or interruptions.
It’s physical pain.
No matter what kind of work you do — or even if you don’t work at all — you use your body every day.
Whether you sit behind a desk all day, run around after kids, lift heavy things in a stock room, or lay on your bed staring at the ceiling, you use your body.
The practice of yoga developed as a preparation exercise for meditation: the whole concept of yoga is to make it easier to sit for long periods of meditation without discomfort, as well as to access the breath better.
Physical pain disrupts everything.
When you’re in pain…
- it’s hard to move well.
- it’s hard to sit.
- you can’t see clearly.
- you can’t think clearly.
Look at any of the surface things that you think get in your way — distraction, inattention, brain fog, disruptions, lack of focus — and beneath them you will find pain.
Sometimes its physical pain, and other times its emotional pain.
The truth is that the body/mind don’t really know the difference. To our systems, physical and emotional pain are received the same way.
The practice of life is to learn how to prevent pain, or tolerate greater amounts of it so it doesn’t derail you.
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