Money doesn’t buy happiness and a yoga teacher understood that well. Indeed, before finding inner peace and trying to help others do the same, Alyssa Lauren Stone had “the perfect life” according to societal criteria specific to our contemporary societies. A vision from which she detached herself for her greatest happiness.
Material wealth does not necessarily guarantee emotional well-being or life satisfaction. But thinking like this is still not the norm, far from it… Nowadays, success is generally synonymous with permanent contracts, investments, and high-ranking positions. Alyssa Lauren Stone worked according to this mechanism for fifteen years before deciding to radically change your lifeas she detailed in Huffington Post this month of February 2024.
“My love of money has kept me on this hamster wheel for far too long”, confided the woman who is now 49 years old. Indeed, she indicated to our American colleagues that she was winning at the time “between $250,000 and $350,000 per year” working in corporate sales and earning “big commission checks”. But one day, this lifestyle no longer made sense for Alyssa Lauren Stone and she went looking fora simpler happinessfar from the “metro, work, sleep” pattern: “Corporate life has an expiration date”, she assured.
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Back to basics
If, in appearance, Alyssa Lauren Stone had everything to be happy, her material comfort did not prevent her body from making her understand that her pace of life was the source ofa certain number of his worries. “For fifteen years I struggled with anxiety, panic attacks and bouts of insomnia”, she confided. And to continue: “My hormones were so out of whack that, more than once, I received a clear warning from my body: a shower drain clogged with golf ball-sized hairballs. I started wearing a lot of headbands and bobby pins to sweep a strip of hair over an incipient bald spot.”
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After this realization, our protagonist decided to operate a major exchange in his daily life. A fashionista at heart, she, for example, decided to lift foot on the purchasing side : “I stopped impulsively buying designer clothes and shoes on flash sales apps that too often convinced me, through thumbnail-sized images on my phone, that paying $500 for one pair of sneakers was a good idea.” Ditto for his numerous expenses to take care of his appearance: “Instead of getting a $150 haircut, I went to a modest salon.” Little by little, Alyssa Lauren Stone moved towards simplicity, therefore.
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Yoga, a rebirth
Yoga offers a variety of benefits pfor body, mind and soul. This discipline, which has existed for thousands of years, allows for an improvement in flexibility and posture, a muscle strengtheningA stress relief thanks to the breathing and meditation techniques used in this practice, stimulation of the lymphatic and immune system…
Naturally, Alyssa Lauren Stone fell in love with this discipline as physical as mentalas she explained to the Huffington Post: “A yoga instructor showed up at my office and I was hooked. Fifteen years later, yoga has not only helped me heal my physical ailments and stay sane during difficult times like the bird flu pandemic, but it has also completely changed my life.”
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