Ego-Prana-Feelings.

The body emanates feelings if you let it and the mind spends most of the time thinking, whilst the breath goes in and out through the mouth or nostrils. This is more or less the case for most people.

Once you step into the arena of Yoga these same processes continue but (hopefully) there is a subtle difference. What is it that is different?

The thing that is different sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly is that awareness of these processes, i.e, thinking, feeling and breathing is increased.

To 'transcend' is to go beyond normal limits and transcendence is 'surpassing the ordinary'. Once we become more focused and aware we can learn to transcend our 'ordinariness'. This is rather a profound thing to do is it not? To transcend our ordinariness takes us more or less beyond being human. If we consider this seriously, would we want to do it?

When we read of Guru Saints and Yogic masters we have to assume that they have transcended the ordinary. They have gone beyond our understanding of what it is like to be human or beyond human. Again, if we take this idea seriously we have to appreciate that 'we' as mere ordinary humans, if we are 'doing' what it says in the Yogic manuals, are becoming transcendent.

This to the ordinary so-called ego perspective is allot to take on. We may scoff at such an idea and we will definitely scoff at it if we have not done yoga before or know nothing at all about it, and, why wouldn't 'we'?

So what then are 'we' as 'neophyte yogi's' doing? The yogic path can be seen as a bit like and elevator ride in some respects. If you 'go up' too high and you are not ready to go 'too high' you will know it instinctively. It's as if there is a 'natural' governor within our system that will not allow us to go 'beyond our limits' as they exist at any given moment. As we continue to progress in our practise, undoing muscular tensions and releasing trauma/s from the system, on a mental, physical and emotional level, we will create more room to move, but we will also keep coming up against limits certain limits. It is at this point of the game that we need to learn something else about practise and that is acceptance and patience. Which is very different from procrastination, apathy and laziness :)

Surely it stands to reason, that if you have muscular conditioning in the form of chronic tension, muscular conditioning and chronic tension that has been in place for many years. Then it is highly likely it may take some time for it to be released. So stop pushing for results and try not to form another addiction to avoiding feeling, the only place to be is here and now. What you 'choose' to do in the here and now is another matter and it is relative to the amount of consciousness you have available to you at this time. The amount of consciousness that is available to you is dependent on; A. Luck or Karma. And B. Your commitment and 'will' to transcend.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

OM