Free Yoga Class The I AM Yoga Challenge January 7, 2017

I AM Yoga Challenge Day 6: I am optimistic

Today’s mantra is I am optimistic.

Optimism takes effort to cultivate so it’s no wonder so many of fall into stretches of time where we feel highly negative. If we don’t stay on top of our mindset and set out to train our optimism, negativity creeps in.

Today’s class is a meditation that will help you strengthen your optimism until your negativity disappears to an afterthought.

Enjoy!

Over to you! Are you more naturally optimistic or pessimistic? 

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Erin Motz

Co-Founder of Bad Yogi & voice of real yogis everywhere. In my spare time I'm also a wine drinker, cheese eater, and not your average yoga teacher; I've been teaching yoga for almost 15 years, but you won't hear much Sanskrit, I totally forgive you if you don't know your asana from your elbow, and I believe that yoga is for everyone, from the kale loving vegan to the prize winning deer hunter.

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    Melanie Gibson

    January 7, 2017 at 11:22 am
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    My default mode seems to be one of pessimism. However, I have learned to mentally flip the switch to optimism whenever a pessimistic thought occurs. I’ve even made a kind of game out of it by trying to find the good thing in something that I want to think of as a bad thing at first.

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    Isa

    January 7, 2017 at 12:40 pm
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    I definitely used to be a lot more pessimistic, but I started really working on re-training my impulse to always anticipate problems about a year ago. It has been really good for me. I realized that a lot of pessimism is rooted in fear of disappointment, but that once you start letting go of that, it can be very liberating. I really enjoyed the meditation

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    Marion

    January 7, 2017 at 6:04 pm
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    Filter of Optimism… I love it ❤ I not only felt optimistic but peaceful as well.
    Another great day Erin thank you ??????

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    Tiffany

    January 7, 2017 at 11:11 pm
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    I feel that I am pretty optimistic about a lot, but these last few weeks I have been feeling a lot of anger, discouragement and defeat. I started this to help try and heal my heart towards these feelings and today I did lay down for this and I did filter a lot of the feelings I have been having and setting them to the side after trying to find the good in what is happening and it did make me feel so much more okay with them. Thank you again and always for doing this.

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    Margaret

    January 14, 2017 at 10:53 am
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    Needed and nice this day. I did have my morning time w God already out side this morning in a heavy misty fog- amazing – but this was my lagniappe!! Busy brain this morning made me rewind you three time until I could hush it!
    Thank you – be blessed.~m

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    Zoë

    August 18, 2017 at 7:04 am
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    When I was younger I had so many problem, I was sooo extremely negative. One day I started and turned everything around in my head. I found out, that optimism is really a mindset and YOU can choose how you look on your thoughts. You can either make them negative or positive. If you train the positive side a couple of weeks, it gets pretty easy to go around in the world with a big smile on your face! 🙂

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    ChristyW

    March 20, 2020 at 3:46 pm
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    Perfect timing to add this video to a series again. I have trouble staying optimistic, especially with everything going on right now. This was a refreshing meditation. Thanks!

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