Drishti

“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.”

~Oprah 🤍

In yoga, we talk a lot about drishti, your point of focus. While drishti doesn't technically translate into intention, it functions like an intention because your gaze directs your attention, attention shapes your energy and your energy influences your intention. One way to think about it is that drishti is the focal point that helps support your intention. I like to think of it like this:

Intention: the why

Dristhi: the what

I was flipping through one of my journals and came across this note and it got me thinking about this beautiful loop of intention:

Believe it by seeing it.
See it by believing it.

Where your gaze goes, your energy follows. But what if this also works in reverse?

So often we wait for proof before we allow ourselves to trust.
“I’ll believe I’m strong once I can…”
“I’ll believe I’m calm once life slows down…”
“I’ll believe I’m capable once I cross the finish line…”

But yoga reminds us of a quieter truth: your inner vision shapes your outer reality. When you hold a belief gently but firmly - even before there’s evidence - your mind, breath, and body begin to align with it. And that, dear readers, is the magic of belief: trusting something as real even without evidence. You breathe it into being, moment by moment, letting possibility take form.

As Ted Lasso (what a great show!) reminds us with that simple, powerful word on the wall: “Believe.” Sometimes all it takes is choosing to trust, to see it, and to let your body, mind, and heart follow.

✨ Believe it by seeing it ✨

Sometimes clarity comes from experience. That moment in Warrior II when your legs are shaking but you stay. The first deep, steady breath after a long or tough day. The softness that arrives when you finally release a pose you thought you’d mastered. These experiences show you what’s possible and they give your belief a place to root … and then rise.

✨ See it by believing it ✨

Other times, you must begin with trust. Trust that you can grow. Trust that you arehealing. Trust that your practice is working even on the days it feels messy. You’ve heard me say it a ka-zillion times: Trust the Process.

When you believe first, your inner sight sharpens. You begin to notice progress you used to brush off. You start seeing yourself the way your highest Self already does.

Small shifts count. So does showing up.

I believe in you.

Now what do YOU believe in today?