Wayne Dyer applies verse 29 of the Tao Te Ching — "there is a time for everything" — to a daily Bikram yoga practice, watching daughters struggle, and the broader rhythm of depression, fear and despair. The shift, he says, is from impatience to recognising the time.
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like I do yoga every morning or almost every morning five six days a week do this 90 minute Bikram Yoga this hot yoga and this has helped me so much with just that simple little thing just remembering what it says in verse 29 of the Dao that there are times when you're in the midst of yoga when you have a position where you have to put this foot out and you have to turn this one down and you have to get down here like this and you have to take this arm and I'm gonna do it and you have to do that for 60 Seconds in 110 degree room that's after doing many other postures as well there was a time when I would do that and I'd be so exhausted and all I could think about was when is this 60 seconds gonna be up oh my god when are we going to get through with this posture when are we going to get onto I can lie down on the floor and finally and to begin to realize as this thing this doing the dial thing has really changed me dramatically so that now when I'm in that position with one arm down and one arm up and it is exhausting and you're stretching and you've got your arm right next to your ear and you're holding on that you say to yourself there's a time for being exhausted and there's a time for rest there's a time for things not to work out imagine if you knew that in the midst of my working with my daughter for example when I see the struggle that she's going to and I can stand back and say there's a Time there's a time for her to experience this and there's a time for her not to experience it if you read Katie's life you'll see that there was a time for deep depression there was a time for fear it was a time for anger and worry and despair deep despair and when you're in those things if you could step outside of yourself and look at it and say there's also a time for its opposite as long as I'm incarnated into a physical world there's a time for all of it and as you do you you lace in your life where you begin to look at all the things that are happening to you because you remember one of the most verse 40 of the dial says it's all about returning it's all about returning returning to what returning to the place from which you originated the first nine months of your life you lived inside of your mother's womb in water and doing this whole nine months nobody could get in there and mess around with you nobody could get in there and get you to worry about anything you didn't have sonograms that you'd look at and say my God I don't have a nose yet what the hell's going on I hope I sure hope I get a nose and you got into nose therapy and you worry about it what if it doesn't happen What you don't do that and all of a sudden perfectly it all unfolds in exactly the way it's going to unfold independent of your opinion about it you're not doing anything nothing is left undone you're being done you're being completed and you were totally completely at peace with it you were surrendered to it you allowed it it wasn't a struggle it wasn't and then you popped out of there and then you said thank you God thank you Dao thank you source we'll take over from here and that was the biggest mistake all of a sudden you took over and you edged God out e g o you edged God out