I'm just about to do the Big Peace yoga retreat at the weekend. (Now sold out! sorry! You can sign up for priority notification for the next one here.)
And my wonderful yoga teacher Viv has just sent me this information about changing a habit in 40 days and thought that it was encouraging fodder for the Big Peace December ahead….

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*40 days will change
a habit into a more positive one. Meditation for 40 Days

In the yogic tradition, meditations practiced for a certain
number of days have a certain effect. Forty days is the minimum to break a
habit and set the stage for an internal shift. One student asked me
once-"Forty days in a row?!" The whole class laughed. Yes, forty days
in a row…. And if that seems like a long time, in the past many spiritual
masters have taken 40 years to achieve enlightenment. I imagine that all of us
have done that path in other lifetimes. This lifetime, we are attempting to get
quicker results, so that we can enjoy peace and happiness while still in the
body.

 

* 90 days confirms
the new habit in you…..

 

* 120 days allows the
habit to become who you are……

 

* 1 000 days ensures
that you have mastered the habit……..

 

 

Start your Big Peace
now, begin with 40 days of watching your breath, the flow of the in breath and
the outbreath….the natural breath

Then extend this to
mental counting of the breath lengths, extending to the point where you are
comfortable…if possible an equal ratio of 1:1

Then add pauses/hold
at the end of the in-breath and the out-breath (these are known as kumbhaka’s)…
starting with a natural pause/hold then building this up to an equal length of
the in-breath and out-breath….

 

 

Enjoy and watch your life change in 40 days."

Now there's a promise. Change your life by just breathing in and out.

I will be starting Big Peace December on Monday. I'm off to the Big Peace Yoga retreat tomorrow so will be off air for a couple of days.

Suzy x