Yoga has also been beneficial in helping me control my mind. I have not completely succeeded but I am continuing to make baby steps in this area. Like I have said before, I have a wandering mind and it usually takes me to dark places, and has a great imagination for the negative things in my life, sometimes taking over control, finding myself in a pit of despair in no time. Trying hard to regain positive thoughts is really hard, maybe it is because it has 40 plus years training in the negative. Just the other night I was going over and over a situation that is not really positive in my life and trying to figure out how I can balance having something that brings out negative thoughts and self doubt without completely removing this "thing" from my life. I have put distance and that helps but it is not possible to remove it completely. I am trying to figure out how I can maintain control of my thoughts and not let what happens, that I have no control over, take over my thought process. I am learning to let it go, and I am doing pretty good with this but I would like it to not even enter, I would like to be in a place where I can refuse those thoughts entirely.
Yoga is a great place for me to work on this, Just the other day while at yoga I was doing really well, I was hitting the standing balancing series like a pro, then it happened, my mind wandered off to some other topic and I wobbled and almost fell out of the pose. It only took me a second to bring my concentration back to the pose so I wouldn't hit the floor. If I could quickly refocus my negative thoughts as quickly as I did in yoga class that stinky thinking would be a thing of the past.
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