I didn't mean it . . . . .

Sometimes when I read back through some of my blogs I think I have a tendency to be a bit harsh. So I just want to say to the more sensitive amongst you that it's nothing personal it just happens to be the way I am at this point in time.

So if you find yourself reacting to what I say all you have to do is ask exactly what it is that you are getting upset about.

The 'ego' will defend it's position forever - so until you can detach a little from you're entrenched views you can only take a stance of defensiveness . Maybe at this point in time you need to defend you're right to be 'right', even with the overwhelming sense of being wrong! After all it is (all in the mind) innit?

Apparently Eckhart Troll is the most spiritual man alive on the planet today. The Dally Llama comes second, it must be true cos I read it in a magazine!

With all that you now know about everything ask yourself one question - Who am I? Not who am I? But WHo Are You ? I mean really -- - - - - Who are you?

Once you have answered that question ask yourself - What am I going to do with myself?

Of course this is not compulsory, right now you may be thinking, who the f--- does he think he is or something else but anyway it's worth a few minutes isn't it? The question I mean.

Ommmmz

Again!

I'm amazed at how little people know about yoga, even people that teach yoga seem to be woefully lacking in knowledge.

I suppose you could say this about any form or discipline if you so choose. I'm saying it because to me it just does not make sense to do something that I don't fully understand. Why would I want to invest time and energy in something that I don't understand? I have to admit though that I have in the past wasted a lot of time 'not understanding' so maybe it's just that I'm older now and don't have the time to spare.

It's true that if you go to a class you will feel better for it, usually though not always. But Yoga isn't magic, to me it is more like a precise science. It has technique and it has a deep philosophy and from that perspective there is much to know.

At the same time we know that if we sit still we immediately enter another state of consciousness. The old saying from the bible is profound. 'Be still and know that I am God'.

Sitting still and breathing deeply in and out through the nose for 10 -15 - 30 - or 60 minutes or more will teach you more about who you are than any books have to offer.

Why don't you do it?

I really do strongly advise you that you 'should' think about it. . . . . Why don't you do it? Why don't you do it everyday?

This is only my opinion - BUT : If you don't do it everyday you have not understood a thing about yoga!

Omzzzzz

'Think'

The way I see it is that if you feel good you can deal with whatever the world throws at you in a more relaxed and intelligent way. Before you read on ask yourself if you agree with this or not.

Obviously if there is a state known as feeling good there is probably a state known as feeling bad.

Think about that for a moment.

If it's true that sometimes we feel good and sometimes we feel bad, what is it that predisposes us to one or other of these conditions? Think about that for a moment.

If you think you are a yogi. Ask yourself what is it that you get from 'doing' it.

Then ask yourself: ARE YOU HAPPY?

And if not: WHY NOT ?

ARE you a VictIM of Something and if so what is it and what can you do about it?

If you are serious about getting happy how do you think you are going to do it?

Do you think that you are too lazy, too tired, too busy or too stupid to live the life you really want to live? More than one of the above or something else or none?

Or are you living the life that you really want to live.

There is more than one way to skin a cat as the old saying goes and YOGA is just one of them.

AS this IS a Yoga webSITE then it willBE YogA that is on here. . . . . . . . . .. . . .

PRANAYAMA _________ ASANA _____________MEDITATION________PEACE__

'Freedom is a double edged sword.'

Why don't you do yoga everyday.

You know what I mean don't you?

Why do you choose to stay within the parameters of a small and closed mind.

When you could be free?

Good question. . . . . . . .

Or not?

Ommmmmmmm z

More of 'I am'.

'Maya' according to the yogic philosophy means illusion.

Going back to the idea of 'I am' or the 'Iamness' of ourselves. We have to ask the question once in a while . . WHO AM I?

I've mentioned the sub-personality model of the psychological reference point of view . This is a model put forward by Robert Asigioli and his psychosynthesis principle. (look it up).

According to that model, which I approve of incidentally, we are made up of many aspects of sub-selves which form a whole. The question is of course whether these aspects are integrated or not!

Anyway back to yoga. If you do yoga regularly which you 'should' be if you know what makes sense. Then you will slowly begin to assert a new model into the mix of these sub-selves, which you could call the yogi. The yogi in fact acts, over an unspecified period of time, as an integrator supreme. The yogi meditates and processes information from a (more or less) relaxed medium. Viewing and synthesising the inner dictates of the varying perspectives of the inner-selve(s).

As time goes by the wisdom of the inner yogi, which has evolved through studying and meditation on some of the deeper issues relating from the mind/body/breath continuum, begins to 'assert' him/herself on the overall discombobulted set of sub-selves which are usually vying for attention in one form or another.

Hari on Tat sat.

'I am"

Whenever you use the term 'I am' you are affirming that the 'I' is something.

If the 'I' represents our personality/persona/reality then when we use the 'I am' statement we are affirming a certain level of reality.

For example the statement 'I am hungry' may find you staring vacantly in the fridge.

BUT; If you sit with this thought statement for a while you may find that you are not hungry- you may find that you are bored and/or emotional in some way.

Then what happens?

Nothing :))

Can we allow nothing to happen?

Or . . . . .

Do we have to keep fixing what we think is the problem?

There is no problem - There is only the mind and what it is doing/thinking and your responses/reactions to these processes.

That's it!

If you do a Yoga practise everyday. You will definitely wake up and feel more. This of course is a problem for some of us.

BUT.

If you don't want to feel you should maybe sit in a tub of iced water for three or four days. This will wake you numb, but then you may find that you are still not happy. So you may buy a bottle of wine and eat a big meal. This may satisfy you for some time but eventually the feeling that you were originally trying to escape from will come back again, like a ghost to haunt you.

Once you accept that there are no such things as ghosts you may come to your senses.

There is only what happens in your mind and how you deal with it.

Once you realise that it is all relative to nothing you may not take it too seriously and laugh a bit more.

'For those that know, no explanation is necessary. For those that don't know, no explanation is possible.'

Do it!

Brain is the hardware of who you are.

Thoughts and emotional reactions = conditioned reality = Your software.

As you do your yoga practise (everyday) you will become aware of old software and replace it with new improved software.

In other word you will wake up to what makes you unhappy and stop doing it (eventually) .

You must stop thinking negatively and stop thinking about the past in victim mode.

Then you can start to empower yourself with who you really are, or want to be, right now!

By doing Pranayama - Asana - and Meditation every single day. You will become happier.

But at first it may make you a bit unhappy. You may become a bit unhappy because you are waking up. Sometimes when we wake up we feel more. When we feel more it can be a bit intense.

BUT:

It really is very simple isn't it!

So why don't you do it ? Yoga everyday!

Write a list of all the excuses you can think of for not doing yoga everyday . . . . . .

You needn't worry.

If you are unhappy or very unhappy you could do yoga.

If you are doing/have done or used to do yoga and are not happy- you are doing it wrong :))

Where does happiness come from = When are you going to let go of the past.

When are you going to stop complaining and start doing something about it ?

You needn't worry if you think you can do any harm to yourself doing yoga.

The harm has more than likely already been done.

When you 'do' yoga you will feel what harm has been done and that will be challenging.

You (unfortunately) have to feel it or else it will just stay fossilised in your system.

Herein lies the way forward. . . . . . . . . Maybe ?

Auumm

Whaddya want ? ?

You have everything you need inside of you that you will ever need.

Chemicals as some of you may know affect reality or your perception of it.

We have chemicals inside of us doing all sorts of things all of the time.

You can learn to have some say in your version of reality.

But it ain't easy . Not at first anyway.

If God exists and he/she made the world why would he/she leave anything out in the human bio-computer?

If God does not exist and we are just random particles that have somehow come together to form the miracle that is life, why would this process not be perfect too? Have you ever wondered at the intelligence behind the design of the nervous system?

We are perfect - We just lost the operating manual for our own nervous system.

Yoga has an answer - if you have the intelligence to see it - well we have already established that you do have the intelligence to see it - so it must be something else that' getting in your way.
Maybe you don't want to see it? Maybe you are not ready to see it?

But hopefully you will see it soon because time is running out innit! :)


Yoga practise is only challenging to your conditioned reality.
You are not your conditioned reality.
Write a brief description of all the excuses you can think of for not doing yoga . . .. And then do some!

P.s This is a yoga website and if you found your way here by accident don't worry if you don't understand. People that say they do yoga don't understand either.

Ommmzzz

'lose your mind and come to your senses'

If you are on here reading this, then you are probably doing or interested in yoga.

If this is the case then I can tell you right now what you need to do.

GET UP AND PRACTISE YOGA.

let me repeat that just in case you don't understand.

OncE you have woken up in the morning: GET UP AND DO YOUR YOGA PRACTISE.

And

DO IT EVERYDAY.

And watch yourself change.

There is really nothing more to say.

Unless you are at least doing that you may as well forget about it.

I think I've said enough.

If you want to read through older blogs you may well find something of interest.

I will blog from time to time. But I think I've said enough for now.

Om :))