Making time for yoga part 2: The importance of being consistent

October 11, 5:55 PMCharlotte Yoga & Spirituality ExaminerShanna Small

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In the first part of this series, you set your intention. In order for your intention to manifest, you must be consistent.

Why you should be consistent

Muscles are like new jeans-When you first start wearing them, the material will stretch a little bit, but when you take them off, they snap back. If you only wear the jeans once or twice, they will stay tight. If you wear them once every few months, they slowly start to loosen up. If you wear your favorite jeans two or three times a week, they stretch and get soft and pliable. Even when you wash them, they will tighten a little bit, but they quickly loosen back out after a few hours of wear and they never go back to their original state.

If you do yoga once or twice a month, your muscles will snap back to their original state. While you may remember the techniques you learned from the last class and your poses may look a little better, you have most likely lost any strength or flexibility gains.

If you do yoga once a week, you start to gain in strength and flexibility but at an extremely slow rate. If you practice yoga 3-6 days a week, you muscles stay stretched and you grow in strength and flexibility quickly.
Less Soreness-If you practice consistently, your body begins to adjust and you experience less soreness after a session.

You ramp up faster-Do you remember when you first started to drive and you had to go through a big checklist in your mind before you ever put the key into the ignition? You drove super slow and freaked out when you were asked to back up or parallel park? Now you just turn the car on and go. It is the same with your yoga practice. When you practice 3-6 days a week, you can clear your mind quickly, get by with a shorter warm up and your breathing is deep and full from the moment you step on the map.

You reach your set intention faster-No matter what your intention was, the more you practice it, the faster it will manifest and the longer it will stick. Energy flows where your attention goes.