Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.

What you practice on the mat is what you end up doing in your life.

When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong, and the mind is able to be calm and travel further inward, where we have direct access to your unique creativity, intuition, and feelings of connectivity.

Why is balance important? From a life lesson standpoint, it's about learning to enjoy yourself without getting the ego involved.

When your life is not in balance and you're struggling to achieve stability, practicing observation without judgment gets really interesting, and very useful. How? Because you can learn to distance yourself from the roller coaster ride of your emotions and circumstances but still enjoy the ride of life.

The practice of being at ease also gives you the strength and stamina to pursue all that you find when you connect inward.

External means of escape like alcohol, drug use, and even overeating are a means of pushing uncertainty away and covering it up temporarily. And they may feel comforting for a moment, but I don't need to tell you that eventually they will cause more trouble than they ever solve.