Our culture supports external focus, it is all about how things look and not necessarily about how things feel. Yoga Asana practise is really about coming out of thinking and into feeling. How do you feel? This inward felt sense of self is a guide to the next step, it is gentle and creative rather than aggressive and forceful.
The 'ego' has a tendency to ignore the subtle feelings emanating form within, it has to, otherwise it would never survive. The sense of 'I' from a more healthy perspective wants what is best for you in the long term. The essential question is, 'who am I?' And once you have worked that out it's, 'what do I want?'.
If you take care of yourself and your personal responsibility to your local environment then what more can you do? In terms of global issues if we all took responsibility for our selves and our local environment we would go along way to solving the issues that now face us.
The raising of awareness (intelligence) is the solution to all of the problems we now face.
Yoga is one ay of achieving this goal- it may be the only way for all I know!
If you want to solve a problem you first have to acknowledge the fact that you have one.
As you raise your awareness through continued practise you keep coming up against your limits and resistances to continuing, it happens to everyone, even in the ashram, probably more so in fact.
Every now and again the 'egoic' old patterns will reassert themselves. These are the days when it is all wrong and you are wasting your time etc. Rather than seeing this as wrong see it as fantastic, this is the 'ego' revealing itself to you in all it's glory. This is why you are doing the work!!
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Don't forget to laugh !!
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