| Many Yoga teachers seem to glow with | | | | skill and leads to a path of favorable possibilities. |
| self-confidence. Most Yoga instructors willingly accept | | | | With that said, teaching or practicing Yoga enhances |
| invitations to participate as guest speakers at local | | | | many positive life skills. Self-confidence is not an |
| health fairs, conventions, or health expos. Where | | | | accident. With the best possible teacher, Guru, or |
| does all this confidence come from? Is it an inherent | | | | Swami, a student will grow and prosper. Within the |
| quality or an outgrowth from teaching Yoga to | | | | heart and mind of each student, a noble teacher |
| others? | | | | wants to instill a set of circumstances that |
| Generally speaking, most of us start with confidence | | | | accomplishes the intended purpose of self-awareness |
| as children. We say everything and anything, but we | | | | within the student. |
| learn to keep quiet at the right time. Some of us feel | | | | Much like the gratification of raising children and |
| bad about our outbursts as children, and we become | | | | watching them prosper, every Guru or Swami should |
| conditioned to remain in silence. Others only interject | | | | feel the same way toward his or her students. For |
| their ideas, when they are 100% certain they have | | | | students, this can be accomplished with the careful |
| the right answer. | | | | guidance of a competent Yoga teacher or through |
| Granted, there are some adults who chatter all day | | | | intensive training. Yet, what holds most people back? |
| long. They talk too much, or they offend people in | | | | The fear of failure is what holds humanity behind. If |
| the process. Their entire life may become a cycle of | | | | fear is justified, then we must follow logical thought |
| chatter and making excuses for what they have said | | | | and instincts. There are many of us who have been |
| in the past. Sometimes, whole families spend their | | | | programmed to fear accomplishments and success. |
| lives apologizing for the constant babbling of one | | | | The reason being: Constant success would be an |
| family member. | | | | unfamiliar set of circumstances. We would rather be |
| Coming into complete consciousness with the words | | | | familiar with failure than succeed. |
| we say requires mindfulness; and as mentioned | | | | In most cases, we hold our self-confidence in "check." |
| above, it can be a life-long struggle for some of us. | | | | We wish and pray for something good to happen, |
| Therefore, mindful speaking is a practiced skill. We | | | | but we do not take action. Wishing and praying are |
| learn when and how to speak. Self-confidence follows | | | | good for us, but they must be followed by action. |