Flexibility

Today in yoga our teacher Sharee, (she's my new yoga teacher- Hope changed to Fridays and that's a tough day for me to make it to class. But on a fun side note, Sharee is Derek and Julianne Hough's sister from Dancing With the Stars.), so anyhow our class was centered around being flexible. Flexibility in yoga allows you to get into the tough poses better and get all the benefits from them. Flexibility gives you more options and ultimately more control over your yoga experience. The more flexible you are, the easier yoga becomes.

So now.... applying it to life. This post may be a bit controversial, but I feel a stirring inside and the whole time we talked about the importance of being flexible there was only one thing on my mind...... the new health care plan that was just passed. Now I'm not a political type girl and I don't have any loyalties to any particular party. So I am completely neutral/flexible when it comes to political issues. Now what's been really bugging me are the extreme people that belong to both the democrat and republican parties. Being a neutral person I am looking at both sides and am in disgust at the behaviors of some people. At the gym today two women were overheard talking about the new health care plan. They were up in arms about it and were bashing President Obama. One lady even said that she wouldn't mind if someone were to assassinate him! Really?! Kill our president because you don't agree with something? But what kills me is that a few minutes later she said to the other lady, "So what does this new health care plan even entail?" Seriously!!! You want the President of the United States assassinated over a plan you know very little about?!!! On the flip side, I was watching the news and the politicians reactions when the bill was passed. The democrats were cheering, the republicans were appalled and upset, and then one democrat came up to the camera yelling out "we won, we beat them!" Huh? And I thought this was about health care and not winning. Then another guy (this one republican) shouted out "Baby Killers!" Wow. What class our leaders are showing. To me, it looks as though if you are Democrat, you are told to think this way. If you are republican, you are told to think that way. What happened to the flexibility and the thinking for ourselves? For this purpose I don't belong to any political party. There are good and bad about both. But I'm going to use my freedoms and my agency to make my own decisions and be open minded to all ideas. I'm sorry if I've offended anyone. This is just one of those things that have been bugging me, and with yoga focusing on flexibility, I was given the chance to really ponder on it. Alright, I'll get off my soap box. :) Love to all!!