Roll with it? or Roll over?

Attack? Retreat? Or roll with the punches? Just because we may decide to "roll with it," doesn't mean we have to roll over. It means that we are moving from our center line, staying true to ourselves, acting from a deep integrity of Knowingness, not the one that externally based in "right/wrong/fair/just." 

Part of what we learn in yoga/life, is how to be flexible, how to roll, without breaking our own sense of deep integrity and truth. So if you feel like crap after you did a day of "rolling with it," maybe you were really just "rolling over." 

The question is - how do we know the difference? We feel a flow and ease in the midst of what may have been a struggle. We aren't clamping down, holding on, grasping for outcomes. We know what we can control (that would be ourselves, our minds, our actions, our thoughts), and what we can't control (pretty much everything else). We are willing to put out the effort to stay true without attachment to others "getting" us. And at the end of the day, we don't feel quite as beat up, spent. We don't regret our choices or our actions. We may be tired, but we feel good about ourselves, because we were ourselves. 

How do we get so we know the difference between rolling over and rolling with it? Practice. Awareness. Curiosity. Non-judgement. Be willing to "not know" yourself into "Knowingness." Get honest faster. And just roll with it. Without getting steam rolled. Or make a big snowman and lay on the snowball. Because you can.