A mechanical, over-stimulated, order-filling work week, as a cog in the system isn’t balanced by a weekly yoga or meditation class.
This isn’t a theory, it’s just an experiment you can run. You can try it out any time for a few weeks and see.
When we consider “self love” or “self care” practices, we often hear that we need to create a better morning routine, or evening routine and that in this way, we can eventually float through the week as if on a cloud.
We can eventually be “balanced.”
Well, fortunately, even after we finish the delightful morning practice, we are still a human for the next 6 to 10 hours while we move into society.
Attempting to balance a non-human workplace through little windows of practice is like trying to keep a cracked aircraft in the air with duct-tape.
It’s far easier (and more productive) to humanise the work (or work-place) itself, such that our work can become an extension of what it means to be alive, to connect and to contribute.
After all, for most of us, it turns out that our work is our single biggest window of opportunity for “self-love” and growth as we attempt to become an adult.
I think there has been, and always will be a place for a seated practice, but to consider our practice finished when we get off the seat is to leave a lot of opportunity for learning on the table.
