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Tenacious Gratitude
Thoughts?
I can tell you mine.
Tenacious didn’t quite feel “right” with me.
I felt that being tenacious was not something I aspired to be.
It’s too rough.
Too hard.
Too pushy.
Too manly.
I imagined the quintessential football player, the one that just stampedes over the competition regardless of anything else, bulldozing through pain, through obstacles, through physical harm – Raaaaaaaaaaah!!!!
I’m not that.
In fact, it kinda repulsed me.
I didn’t want to be known as tenacious.
And then I was introduced to Adeline Arjad from Chocbite by my awesome-sauce business powerhouse Erika Lyremark. Adeline said:
“Tenaciousness + Gratitude = Success”
And then it made sense.
This larger than life word that I had chosen not to align with at all, became more than my subjective cultural upbringing and life experience.
I let the word be.
Tenacious: not easily stopped or pulled apart. Firm. Strong. Seeking something valued or desired. Continuing for a LONG time.
Synonyms – devoted, faithful, relentless.
I recognized that I pushed away tenaciousness because I was afraid to commit and follow through.
Tenacious requires a deep, unwavering commitment to the things that you value and dream and I wasn’t willing to go that far.
I wanted an out. I wanted excuses. I didn’t want to do the work – not fully.
What if it didn’t work out?
What if what I stood behind or for changed?
What if I had to defend publicly what I stood for?
What if…
…..I failed?
I’m ready now – because of the magic of gratitude.
You simply cannot be tenacioustenacioustenacious.
It’s unsustainable.
With gratitude thrown in the mix you’ve got a recipe for unwavering magic making.
Gratitude refuels and replenishes.
OMG this was perhaps the biggest lesson that I’ve learned.
Gratitude is like doing a personal and spiritual detox.
It’s like drinking and eating your greens. It’s the fastest way to clear out the cruft left by the fire of tenacity.
I’m ready to embody tenacity. I’m ready to fuel it with the nectar of gratitude.
Do you want to join me?
How about practicing along and letting me know how tenacity mixed with gratitude felt in your body? Yeay or nay?
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Thanksgiving Yoga Class Sequence
Sukhasana with arms up
Sukhasana with arms interlaced over head
Hands and knees
Downward Facing Dog/One Legged Downward Facing Dog
Lunge/Lunge with arms forward/hasta padangustasana variation/Lunge
uttanasana/ardha uttanasana
Plank – top of a push up/down one inch
Adho Mukha Svanasana
Top of a push up
Down one inch
Downward Facing Dog/One Legged Downward Facing Dog
Lunge/Lunge with arms forward/hasta padangustasana variation/Lunge
Vinyasa
Uttanasana/Ardha Uttanasana x 2
Tadasasana
3 half suns
Plank
Vinyasa
Sun salutation
Crescent pose/standing splits variation/crescent
Plank
Chattarunga
Plank
Downward Facing Dog
Crescent pose/standing splits variation/crescent pose
Vinyasa
Tadasana
Arms interlaced behind the back
Vinyasa
Vira 2
Plank on top of feet/cobra (the image below is of Chattarunga on top of feet)
Humble warrior
Vinyasa
Parsvakonasana variation with arm on the inside of the leg and top arm straight up
Vinyasa
Garundasana on your back
Sumo wrestler eagle
Uttanasana
Deep lunge Chattarunga Arms
Hands and knees dog peeing pose
Downward Facing Dog with leg out to the side
Child’s pose
Deep lunge with arm beneath the leg
Salambasana with arms behind
Pigeon
Downward Facing Dog
Lunge with thigh stretch
Pigeon with thigh stretch
Urdhva dhanurasana x 3
Downward Facing Dog
On your back
Easy supine twist
Tadasana
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Great post! Thanks for the invitation to contemplate tenacity. It wasn’t until the last few years that I began to understand tenacity as being UNSTOPPABLE–which, of course, is an awesome quality! I think it’s very real for some to be tenacious without the aggression and instead be filled with gratitude for what already IS. 🙂 Sounds like a mighty combination.
I too have struggled with follow through and committing to certain things. Mostly, I suffer from DISTRACTION. This is why I need a visual reminder (i.e. vision board) to remind me of what I truly desire, instead of reacting only to the immediate.
Congratulations on your Las Vegas speaking engagement!!!! Wish I could go! XOXO
Since this is a class about gratitude, I hope you know my thank you is imbued with so much more. Thank you, Elsie!
Just like what Kim said, let me thank you for the effort you have done to share this to us. Now I’m off to do this sequence!
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