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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
—B.K.S. Iyengar
I started this training because, simply put, I wanted change. I’d been peripherally studying spiritual growth and thinking about how great it was, but I hadn’t actually done anything with it or found ways to apply it in my life. In other words, I was talking the talk (or, more like occasionally reading the read), without walking any sort of walk, whatsoever. At some point in late October 2009, I reached my limit. I decided it was time to change, time to start living my life the way I wanted to. If spirituality was really that important to me, it was time to start actually incorporating it into my life.
A teacher of mine once asked a group of us, “What is spirituality?” We all looked around at each other awkwardly, embarrassed that here we were at a “spiritual growth” workshop and yet not one of us could actually define what “spirituality” was. Our teacher smiled and said, “Spirituality is action.”
Another teacher of mine told me that change can only occur if we have the discipline to maintain it. Our natural tendency is to take the easiest path, the path of least resistance and of greatest pleasure. But if we want to change, it requires choosing a different path than what we’re used to—which will necessarily feel difficult, simply because it’s different—we need discipline to help us stay on the new path.
Thus, spiritual growth (or change of any kind, spiritual or otherwise) can only be accomplished through action backed by discipline. Thus, this 100-day training idea is a way for me to develop my discipline and start applying the spiritual principles I’m learning through continuous, conscious and sustained action.
