straitlaceddame:Accepting the process of waist training at the speed that your own torso wishes ta
straitlaceddame: Accepting the process of waist training at the speed that your own torso wishes takes a profound amount of courage and self-assurance, so I have learned. Shortly after picking up this blog late last summer (following a hiatus of over a year), I proclaimed that I would do all that I could to close my 20” Josephine corset for a full 12 hours of wear in what would have then been the very near future. It was not a terribly excessive milestone to work toward, but it was challenging. The psychological and physiological struggle I engaged in, just to satisfy my own goal, was exhausting. And I accomplished little more than finding myself pulling at my laces a few months later with an uncanny sense of disenchantment. Waist training had become more tedious that I had hoped for. Perhaps no one else was concerned about me cinching down, but I certainly was, and that rigid mindset deprived me of the intrinsic joy that the process of training the midsection down can offer. Certainly it wasn’t quite an unhealthy perspective, but much of the positivity had been drained from the daily ritual for me. It wasn’t until I found myself willing to respect the pace my midsection dictated that I had the opportunity to fully experience the delight of waist training in a proper corset. When the objective became consistency and comfort and *liveliness* - only then did the results follow. And while I was busy focusing on how nice (and I mean “nice” in both ways) I felt in a corset, my waist happily, quietly, and gradually came to accept this steel-boned pressure with gratitude each day. Some days the corset is laced more loosely, some days more tightly, and on others relinquished entirely. It was this willingness to take each fluctuation in stride, in part, I believe, that has brought me to a point where closing that same Josephine corset for extended days is no longer a substantial feat. Of course, it goes without saying that corsets have something to teach each of us, though that lesson is an entirely individual one. For myself, though, it’s that the virtues of patience and persistence are powerful ones. -- source link