Focus on Mexico Blog

By Tere Ruiz

Living in Lake Chapala has brought many new experiences and wonderful satisfactions to my life.  Still the most important thing that this new life has brought me is the opportunity to enjoy myself and to do things that enhance my life physically, spiritually and emotionally.

Living in a big city in the past, with the everyday rat race that it involves, made it very difficult to spend time with myself and didn’t leave me any time to even think about what would really make me happy.  On the other hand, living in Lake Chapala, makes me happy, because it was a choice I made, no matter how much everyone told me I was quite crazy to leave a “wonderful” life in the city to move here. 

In this area, I live a relaxed life.  I have enough time to organize my schedule to accomplish all my professional activities, and still I have enough time to enjoy nature, my home, my life, my beloved ones and myself.

And one of the most gratifying things about living here is that no matter how much I didn’t have time to enhance my physical, spiritual and emotional life in the past, the time has come in which I have been able to start doing this and I have discovered that “It is not too late” to do it.

I never did very much exercise in my youth, but I made the decision that it was still time to start and stop regretting not doing it in the past and stop whining about my physical looks and performance. So just a week ago, I started going to Yoga Classes in my town and I believe this has been one of the best decisions I’ve made and also a blessing.

At the beginning I was worried and scared about not performing well.  I had the wrong idea about competing with my co-students and having to “do it better” than them, specially as I believed they were “older” than me, which now, accepting myself as not a young lady anymore, I can be honest, they are not older.  It felt bad to see that some lady could bend better than me, and make all 8 repetitions of each exercise when I could only make 3!

Then, I thought my pain would get worse, as I have been suffering what I believe must be rheumatism for the last couple of months.  And of course, that was also a big excuse for not exercising all this years: “it will hurt,” “I will sweat,, “I’ll look terrible”…

But guess what, I was totally wrong, it didn’t hurt worse, sweating is a good thing, and I don’t look terrible, I just look like everybody else looks after a Yoga session.

So if you, like me, are thinking that time has gone, that what you didn’t do in the past or did do, has no solution in the present, that at this or that age, things are not possible anymore, etc…  I have good news for you.  Every day is a new beginning, a new opportunity, a new blessing.  The past is gone and Today is a brand new day to start living your life as you want now.  Stop regretting about this and that and give yourself a chance of doing better than nothing, because this is my motto Today:  Doing yoga the best I can, no matter that it means only three repetitions of each exercise or even less, is much more than doing nothing, and in November as a birthday gift, I am going to give myself the opportunity to look at Lake Chapala from the top of the hill because I am going to go hiking all the way up and feel like the “Queen of the World.”  Would you like to join me?  I’ll be waiting for you!

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