Holding the Flood

Money anxiety has the ability to flood our minds. This can be long-term stress where we don’t know how to overcome the barriers to the income required to fund the consumption dictated by our vision of what our lives should look like. The homes we want. The holidays. The entertainment. The fashion. The signals of conspicuous success. It can be stress about the trade-offs, even if we can over come those barriers. Habitual work for money consuming every morsel of energy we possess. It can also be short term anxiety. More immediate. Where the financial waves make our decisions as we hop from crisis to crisis. With brief gasps of air in between bills, or the rising damp of debt nibbling at our foundations. Before controlled movement, comes calm. Finding a path to stillness.

Holding the Flood

The Space Between

Earning £100,000 a year can still be filled with anxiety if you are spending £120,000 a year. If you are living on the edge of your capacity to borrow and pay interest. If you are pushing forward and up as hard and as fast as you can. Earning R100,000 a year can be Zen-like if you have the self-discipline of a Langa Gogo, spending R80,000 a year a putting some to work. Those are extremes, but the point is the only comparison necessary is spending and income, and the space between. Not other people. Vrittis, are the thought waves of the mind. Yoga creates a system to control these waves. A path of self-restraint that brings focus to the things that are most important. Creating the ability to move with intention, rather than being moved by what the world throws at us.