Changing the emphasis of this Blog from “I can’t" to “I can"

Published by I Can Do Yoga?, August 18th, 2015

I recently finished my Yoga Teacher training and its been a life changing experience, and so much I want to share.

I’ve learned so much that I’m not sure where to start. So I’ll start with something simple.

One theme which had most impact was the idea that "thought is creative". And when I say creative, I mean the power to create. The power from thought to turn into something intangible, into something tangible.

Let me give a practice example. On the pages of this blog, I write a lot about all the things I struggle with. These include my struggle in calming the mind, my challenge in meditation, my lack of flexibility. Read some of my articles and you’ll get the gist!

So I’ve decided to stop saying “I Can’t". Or at least to set the intention of saying it a lot less.

But this leaves me with a problem. The title of this blog: “icantdoyoga".

Just to wind back a few months. My intention behind the name of the blog “icantdoyoga" was initially positive. I wanted to be humble. I want to turn challenges into opportunities. And yes, I wanted to share my challenges and progress in yoga, without sounding arrogant.

But as good as these intentions are, repeated the phrase ‘I Can’t" is also a very old, and very bad habit. It’s rooted in a past lack of self confidence, self criticism and false modesty. And because though it creative, saying "I can’t" runs the risk of creating a self fulfilling prophecy, by sending negative thoughts and energy to my body. No wonder that even though I practice lot, my back can still be stiff. LOL

So I looked into changing the name, but that was just too complicated now that I’m also set up on Twitter and Facebook too. So although I’m keeping the name, wherever possible it will be written as a rhetorical question: I Can’t Do Yoga? Always to be followed by the answer: Yes We Can! There that feels better already!