Every thought we have has an affect on our system in some way. If you are laying in your bed worrying about something you will be producing hormonal reactions in the body as if the event you are worrying about is actually happening. The body responds to fear real or imagined. That's an intense realisation is it not?

So the opposite must be true right? If we have positive thoughts and projections we will be having an hormonal response in accord with that too!

It all sounds very simple really doesn't it, change the thinking and change the hormonal responses. It's just the same as getting new software really. The brain and nervous system are the hardware and the thought processes are the software.

A simple procedure for highly complex beings such as ourselves. Could it really be that simple? Yes I think it could. But we come back to that same old problem, which is, where does the 'drive to commit' to this process come from and even more interesting, what is the 'drive to commit'?

I used to think it was desperation, i.e. that when we get desperate enough we will change. Well we all know about the new years resolution going out of the window by Jan 4th. These patterns are deeply ingrained in the mind/body system. We cannot simply change things overnight by changing our minds, can we?

I would say in some cases this can happen. An event which is 'mind blowing' can have such a profound effect on the system that sometimes a permanent change is effected immediately. Hearing of the sudden death of a close friend made me stop drinking alcohol, permanently.

Anyway what I am leading up to here is that Yoga is a profound life transforming every single day event that you can initiate in your own home. I am so bored with the 'yoga posture' syndrome, looking good and doing the perfect pose is not what it is all about, (in my opinion). It is not even about becoming peaceful really, (in my opinion). What is it about then? I think it is more about looking deep within yourself and finding out who/what you are and then looking again and asking if you are happy with being who/what you are. If you are then no more yoga for you, unless you like it of course. If your not then you use the disparity of who you are and who you want to be as the driving force for transformation, the drive to commit.

Of course I know this isn't a fully evolved answer to all the worldly problems one may have but it's a start!

And one thing I do know. If you dont try you will never find out. . . . . . . . . . . . . what ?

Hari Om Tat Sat.