14/09/2025
✨SMRITI✨ - Remembering your Why
When we start something new, whether it’s a skill, practice, schedule or hobby, motivation and the spark of novelty get us through the door. Everything feels new in our body and mind, as we carve fresh neural pathways and explore the unknown. We trust ourselves to achieve goals or follow through with intentions, and we put our energy into it, but sometimes over time… we lose sight of the WHY. Motivation fades, distractions or complications arise, and the learning curve might turn steep. This is especially relevant if the intention is long-term!
Something that can help bring clarity and devotion back into our practices is using memory, or smriti, to “Remember your Why.” Smriti is something I’ve been encouraging students in their yoga practice (and out of!) to utilise when the road we tread feels rocky.
Why do you practice?
How does it make you feel? What are you here for?
Reshaping our focus to become clearer on our WHY can help reignite the flame in actioning our intentions. This season of Spring, the representation of the element Wood in the Wu Xing, is a beautiful reminder to move in momentum towards our greater visions and goals. Do you see the fresh growth around you, the seed in the soil bursting towards the light in its effort to evolve into a plant?
No matter how small it is, a step is a step on the thousand-foot journey. As we near the tail end of the year, how do you put the rubber to the road? Remember your WHY, and perhaps the vision becomes a little clearer…
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