These past weeks has shown me that yoga is definitely a process. It's been really inspiring because of the book I'm reading has a nice duality with it. It's about living without a large, life defining goal and enjoying the "sublime" of life, the process, the journey. It sounds cheesy and slightly nihilistic, but it quite isn't. Yoga is about enjoying your process and being in the moment, letting all of the noise and self induced stress around you melt away. In turn you become more focused and relaxed, which has happened to me. 

I started realizing how much having a large life goal can be detrimental to my well being. I would catch myself fantasizing about becoming a pilates instructor and being so strong and in control of my body or working for some prestigious journal or magazine. These are nice things, but I'm young and things will come or not and it doesn't matter. You have to like what your doing right now. By doing that, you don't just slack off self actualization  and turn on autopilot, you learn to like life by the moment, and the more I'm in a contented and happy place, the more I strive to get back to it when life becomes hard or stressful. We try so hard to declutter our physical reality, to control our surroundings when all that really matter is all the mental garbage we keep lying around. Like obsessive collectors, we hold onto anxious thoughts or lofty goals or strict ideals , not giving us a second of peace of mind.