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Choose

We are always choosing. Make the choosing that you do Become something that you really Want...... Attempt to wake up ...... It takes a small decision .

No Practice!

What happens to you if you do not practice?

Do you start getting into your head?
Do your energy levels appear to drop?
Do you become more emotional, reactive?

It seems to me that for some of us a practice is not a luxury, for some of us a practice is a necessity.

Those lucky souls that always appear to be okay are a strange phenomenon in my world. Do we always have to appear to be okay? Is there some agenda somewhere that says we always have to be happy?

I think there is - especially in the yoga world.

If you have found it necessary to lock yourself away from the world in an ashram then that is the decision you made at some point for your own well being.

I really don't like it when a 'benighted soul' that is always apparently happy, joyous and free, makes smug judgements about us 'poor miseries' that inhabit the material world.

It is my preference to 'think' that we are all 'free spirits' with individual choices and free will. We are empowering ourselves with our practices to go deeper into our own incarnation in order to seek out our own true will.

If you 'need' to belong to a group or a tribe or whatever you want to call it then do so. But watch out for the hidden agenda of 'holier than thou' looking down your noses at so called 'ordinary people' that aren't as unlucky as you to have 'seen the light' of the one true God!

Abrahadabra!
Omzzzz

Am I alone in wondering what has happened to Yoga?

Why is there so much focus on Asana, and Dynamic Asana too!

I know the answer to that as you do, it is body oriented practice, the 'look good, feel good,' scenario.

No matter how much we may kid ourselves we are 'not' getting rid of our Ego's are we.

If you live in the world you 'need' an ego.

The only chance one has of getting rid of an ego, whatever that means, is to live a life of solitude.

What do you think?

Who are we kidding? Who am I kidding?

I think that to start with, being happy, is a good enough position to take for the practice we do, whatever that is!

I am so bored with the deification of Asana teachers. They are like Dj's, another phenomenon I can't grasp.
Why should someone deserve praise for;
A. Doing what they love to do. 
B. For teaching (or playing) stuff that was written down by someone else.

Come on people wake up!!

Fair enough though, if you're gonna have an ego, have a good and strong one. But back up your thoughts and idea's with experimentation, don't just read it in a book and accept it, try it!
SEE if it works for you!

And if it doesn't try something else............

Thinking - Feeling - Being - Behaving

Whether we care to admit it or not we are essentially our thoughts and feelings condensed becoming our behaviour.

Our thoughts influence our physiology - our physiology influences our feelings, and the combination of these two influence the way we are and the way we behave.

I would say this is it, more or less. If you disagree please feel free to give us a clue as to what you think or feel.

The question is, can we influence the way we think, feel and behave via our awakening process through Yoga?

Of course we can!


At this time of year more than any other, unless we choose to isolate, we are surrounded by people that we don't normally spend much time with. We have our nearest and dearest around us pushing more buttons than we thought possible.

Behind our reactions, some of us may know that there exists a deeper unfazed part of ourselves that is quietly observing, kind of ommming away in the background. The problem is that some times the noise out there gets so loud that we seem to loose contact with that quieter inner part of ourselves.

So we turn everything to our advantage and see what it is like to be living 'without a practice'. We can experiment and get to experience life living through our reactions and impulses to external events a little more strongly, enjoy it, it won't last!

To me, personal reality appears to be created via a combination of 'mindful' and appropriate thinking. When this is aligned with very good energy received from Pranayama breathing it enables me the bear the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with a little more panache . . . . . .

Omzzz

Namaste!

Om nama shivaya . . . . . Ommmmmmm

Turn on.
Tune in.
And Go deep.

The 60's psychedelic advocate Timothy Leary used the expression; "Turn on, Tune in and drop out," as an address to people to turn their backs on the materialistic world of the time. The way to do this according to him was to take the powerful hallucinogen LSD.
LSD or lysergic d acid, is a derivative of some naturally occurring fungus that has the ability to radically and some times permanently alter the consciousness of the partaker.

Those of us that are perhaps not so radical already know that we can alter consciousness in a more controlled way through the techniques of, among other things, Pranayama, Asana and Meditation.

Leary's idea was to get out of the conditioned thinking of material living as it existed in the sixties by using these powerful drugs, and as in the lines of Leonard Cohen's  song 'The Butcher,' "it did some good and it did some harm".

It's all very well getting high for the sake of getting high, and this is what many yoga enthusiasts seem to be doing. But if you look a little deeper into some of the more interesting Yoga books aforementioned, you may find a map of consciousness leading onward and upward.

It's better to travel with a destination in mind, don't you think?

Tune into the breath.
Drop the thoughts.
And dive deep into the experience of being here and now!

Omzzzz

Atman, is said to be a tiny spark of the divine which exists within all of us.
Brahman is the 'bigger picture'. It is where the tiny spark comes from.
Brahman is an all pervading consciousness, the infinite wisdom of the infinite.

According to Yogic literature it is indescribable, it is beyond intellectual comprehension.
BUT, again, according to the Yogic scholars it can be experienced directly through the ongoing path and practice of Hatha Yoga.

Hatha Yoga is not the only way to experience bliss absolute of course.

We may be nearer to the experience than we can imagine. In fact it is only the mental judgements we place on the 'concept' of bliss that keeps us apart from it.

The world and it woes and worries of course are the greatest obstacle to the experience of peace, bliss, etc.
How can we feel peaceful when we are worrying if we can pay the rent or the electricity bill.

But worrying is no excuse to 'not' practice. If we sit around waiting for the right time or the right teacher to show up, half of our lives may have gone by.
Having said that of course, I know that if we are not ready to do something then nothing in the world will make us do it.

So we conclude, do we not, that we either are, or we are not, inclined towards a so called spiritual practice.
And Yoga 'is' a spiritual practice, in my opinion.
Hatha Yoga and the practice thereof is a very strange thing to do.
Why would anyone in their 'right mind' want to do it?
It makes no sense to feel pain, the way one feels pain in yoga.
Why would we do that?

In my opinion feelings are required to be fully alive and Asana practice will certainly put you in touch with your feelings.

The alternative is to exist inside of your own head and live life in a kind of second hand way via interpretation of realities that you seem to exist in.

Feeling, therefore, is a step closer to the 'authentic suffering' that Freud mentions.
Oh yes we all suffer don't we.........?

If you are not suffering you are probably either dead or in serious denial of the existence of your body. . . . . .

The thinking mind is useful, we need it. But when the thinking mind has done it's job for us it is nice to switch it off!

It is common in many cultures to drink alcohol as a way of switching off the mind, in other cultures smoking is used.
Watching TV, eating, reading, listening to music are all ways we have of 'not stopping thinking' but actually distracting ourselves from what we are thinking about.

When you do several rounds of Kapalbhatti you will oxygenate the blood and therefore the brain.
This has a profound influence on the mind because the blood supply to the brain improves and the brain relaxes.

Can I prove this? No!

So you will have to try it and see if it works . . . .

Try this:
3-5 rounds of Kapalbhatti pumping - 30 to 100 pumps, no breath retention.
10-20 rounds of deep Yogic breathing - exhaling twice the time of the inhale.
10 - 20 rounds of alternate nostril breathing using a 2-8-4 ratio. Working from 4-16-8 - and going up into longer breaths and longer retentions - focus the mind and breathe deeper and longer.
Sitting for 15 minutes in meditation.

Try it, it shouldn't take too long.

All in the mind/brain?!

If you don't really know who you are you may become dependent on someone telling you who you are. It's not wrong but it's not right either is it?

A strong 'ego' will be strongly opinionated and a weak ego will be ill defined and looking for some certainty. This is where the Guru/teacher comes in.

If the Guru teacher is 'clean, clear and authentic then some clean, clear and authentic teaching may occur, leading rather rapidly to some (usually) intense lessons in enlightenment teachings.
If on the other hand the teacher/Guru is unclear and in denial then the teaching may meander around forever. The weak ego has no 'real' way of knowing whether a teacher is clear or unclear. On the other hand the strongly opinionated egoic teacher/Guru will have a vested interest in keeping many 'ill defined' ego's wandering around in the dark. This has to happen otherwise the 'egoic' teacher has no role to play and would therefore not exist.

What can we do?
How can we know?
Open the eyes.
Listen very closely to what is being taught and spoken.
If it doesn't make sense it is probably bullshit - Go elsewhere.
The best place to go is within...........

Get Real!

Hmmm, what is it this thing called reality?

I think even if you are only half aware you have to agree that we are, (all of us), conditioned to a certain degree.

What is it that lays behind this so called conditioning?

Does anything at all of any consequence lay behind this conditioning?

Is our condition the same thing as what may call our Karma?


The reason I ask is because what we are born into, whether it is blind fate or a divine plan is still our destiny, it is still our condition, right?!

Getting to the point ; if you are screwed up Yoga may be able to help you. . . . .

The secret of life!

It's easy really - INHALE AND EXHALE - until you cannot do it anymore.

"What some people describe as happiness, I see as sugar coated valiumised nonsense!"

"Can we know joy unless we know pain?"

The higher you go the lower you are likely to fall. In my experience this is an existential given. If you don't go up then you cannot go down. So you will then try to stay in one place and live life in a straight line, valium is useful for this effect.
It's like trying to live on the 'flat-line' except that the flat-line usually indicates that you are dead!

I know there really is no high or low, not in terms we can measure. But 'we' know don't we, that we can feel absolutely fantastic and then feel absolutely terrible. Sometimes we may find a rational reason for this peculiarity, at other times we may 'think' we have found a reason for it.

The question is, the real question is, do we really have any control over our feelings, ,thoughts and emotions or are we as much a victim of them as any other warm blooded beast?

It is my experience that the intelligent use of; Asana - Pranyama - and Meditation can sometimes give one the unbearable idea that 'you/we/I' do have some kind of control for certain undefinable periods of time.



Omzzz

Being alive!!

I appreciate today how lucky I am to be alive.

I've been reading a book about cancer research and how long and difficult a trial it has been and continues to be.

I am alive today largely because of the advent of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant that occurred in 98.

i took up Yoga seriously in 98. I went to three or four classes a week.

It was Pranayama that helped me with my fear and Asana that helped me to regain the physical strength. 

I was lucky enough to meet the right Yoga teacher for me at that time.

I am grateful for the fact that Yoga is a complete system of healing and in spite of the (in my opinion) corruption of this incredible practice I believe it has a vast amount of untapped resources to offer all sorts of people.

Personally I feel that some of the yoga publications do more to put ordinary people off yoga then they do to encourage them to 'do' yoga.

Yoga is not an elitist practice it is (in my opinion) an everyman/woman adventure into radical healing.

Hari Om Tat Sat!

What do I mean?
What is it all about?

I can waffle like the best of them but at certain times I feel the need to be very clear. This is a difficult thing to do, for me.

Anyway here is an attempt to cut through the bull.

(A Story)
At a certain point a person is born. This person is born under certain conditions, to certain parents. These parents have an influence on this child person. Many things may influence this child person. Religion, class, race, gender, geographic location, astrological conjunctions, etc, will all have some bearing on the 'conditioning' of this child person. He/she grows up and is educated, is influenced by friends and/or peers. At a certain point he/she will find a career or calling. This person then may go through life and become successful, may become a failure, may stay single or get married and have children or not.

Underlying this progress through life there may or may not be a deeper part of the person that keeps interfering with the progression in some way. A small voice that keeps him/her awake at night. A sense of doubt or uncertainty about things. Perhaps feeling that things aren't quite right somehow, a restlessness may appear. The person may be able to push these feelings or thoughts out of consciousness, out of sight out of mind, and remain reasonable and relatively calm, continuing on the journey of life.

On the other hand the restlessness may be overbearing and difficult to deal with and different solutions are sought to quell the anxious restlessness. People or friends that are 'dealing' well with life may suggest there may be something wrong with this person and tell the person to seek help.  He/she may go to a doctor who prescribes drugs to calm the nerves. After some time some psychotherapy or counselling may be introduced and the person begins to talk more about him/herself. This talking may lead to more understanding and awakening. The underlying part of the person is now being expressed, the secret doubts and fears are being exposed and the person feels better for 'sharing' this burden with someone. Life goes on and it gets a bit better.

At a certain point another feeling creeps in, a sense of dissatisfaction and a gnawing feeling starts breaking through. The counselling is no longer working, the dissatisfaction is not being met through conventional means. The job feels unrewarding, family life is a chore and the person feels unappreciated and ignored, like he/she is just there to provide a service to someone else. A realisation dawns, he/she has become a slave to a system. Working and spending money, for what? Material dissatisfaction is no longer working, maybe it never did?

Oh dear.........Escape is an option. Booze and drugs work for a while, different therapists and counsellors soon follow. Workshops and seminars on various subjects around the idea of healing and health are sought out. There is a respite as each of these distractions gives a small meaning for a small time, but soon the doubt and anxiety return.

Hmmmm what's going on?
What is this anxiety?
Where does it come from?
Is it real?
Hmmmmm . . . .  . . .
Aha!
A light switches on.
There is a sense of inner inquiry.
An inner voice is listened to .....at last.
A willingness is felt.
A willingness to look within is acknowledged.


Have you tried Yoga yet?


In my opinion Yoga is a complete system of healing, transformation, or whatever word you want to use.

BUT - it's not for everyone, apparently. :))

Imagine if you can, a line, an invisible line.

Imagine that this line exists within your mind and it is a horizontal line.

When we function or rise above the line we are awake.

The further above the line we go, the more awake we are.

Below the line we begin to go to sleep, we begin to go unconscious.

The further we go below the line, the more asleep we become.

Although this line is 'really' imaginary, for most of us it  is or appears to be very real.

How high on the horizon is your line?

How often are you above/below it?

Do you even know that this line exists?

Do you know what it is like to be above or below the line, the difference, do you know what it feels like to be asleep or awake and the difference between these two states?

In a sense this imaginary line is wherever it is, this is the case for all of us. For some it may be very low, so we are awake a lot of the time and for others the opposite is true.

When you are asleep or unconscious you may find yourself assailed by the dreaded so called unconscious mind. In this condition we can be full of thoughts of past, present and future. Scenario's that are not real can appear to be very real. These imagined scenario's may preoccupy us for most or some of the time.

The body will produce chemicals, hormones etc to comply with whatever  we are allowing onto the screen of our body/mind.

Anyway, the thing is, as usual, 'we' come back to a more equalised state of mind when we do our Yogic practice. We become more aware of everything and there is an 'aha' moment of realisation as we begin to climb above the 'imaginary' line once more

All we have to do is remember that it is 'all in the mind' and more importantly than anything else, that 'WE' are in charge of this mind. WE are responsible for what we think about all of the time, whether we care to admit it or not!

If you are not in charge of the things that float in and out of your mind then who is????

GET a GRip Now !!!

Om :))

Within the mind there are no limits - John Lilly

If you do not play the game of material and financial security - what else is there to do?

If you are not interested, or become uninterested in gaining fame and fortune - what is there to do?

If you were to become yourself 'completely' would you be any different to who or what you are now?

Do you enjoy your life? - I mean really enjoy your life . . . . . . . ?

Asana enables us to hold a 'serious' position with equanimity.

Holding a 'serious' posture for a period of time that makes us uncomfortable is an experiment with being uncomfortable - can we be uncomfortable and stay awake and grounded.

A problem is caused when we avoid discomfort. Life is an uncomfortable process 'sometimes' and in order to get what we 'think' we want we 'sometimes' may have to 'suffer' in the short term. If we don't posses that ability we may convince ourselves we do not 'really' want the thing we 'really' want and drop out of the long term plan.

Doing something that makes us feel uncomfortable in a conscious way can show us more about ourselves than 'doing' our favorite Yoga class with our favorite teacher over and over again for several lifetimes will ever show us, (in my opinion).

"It's not important to be serious, but it is important to be serious about what's important".

Watch it!

The yoga teacher you choose will have an agenda (probably).

Find out what it is!

Yoga is nothing but the realisation of the self.

Being flexible, fit, thin, happy, peaceful, strong, etc, are all side effects of the practise but they are not what the practice is about!

Who you are is the only important thing to know!
If you are not you then who are you?

Sometimes it is good to imagine lying on your death bed. If you die tomorrow will you be happy knowing you did the best you could to be you?

Or you can pour another drink and watch the sun rise or set :))

YOGA RULES . . . . .There are none!

Or are there?

Ommzz

Brain hardware - Thinking software.

The brain and nervous system are the hardware of your existence.

You thoughts, ideas, beliefs, fantasies, habits etc, are the Software of existence.

Can Yoga help you change the software and upgrade the hardware.

YES!!

But only if you do it . . . . . .

Prana will give you everything.

How are you going to get it?

Where are you going to get it?

Who do you need to supply it to you?

You?

Me?

Anybody?

Asana Practise.

If you went to a so-called Yoga class and didn't know any better you would think that Asana practice is a strange kind of gymnastic class. People sweat and grind their way through a  class and feel better at the end of it (usually).

Also you will find that most people won't talk to each other, there is a lot of competitive posturing, and sometimes but not always a deification of the Yoga teacher running the class.

Asana practice, in my opinion, seems to be about 'feelings'. It seems to be about learning to relate to ourselves in a physical way. Joint stiffness and muscular tightness become the object of our discomfort.

When I teach a class I often encourage people to keep their eyes closed and breathe.

In my opinion feelings, if you are not used to them, are hard to deal with. Musculature holds memory and sometimes past trauma can be re-ignited during a particular posture. We may not experience it as a remembered trauma, it may just feel really uncomfortable, or some thing we want to get away from.

Unless we know a little about what to expect we may continue to do Asana practice without realising what we are really doing.

What we are really doing is (I believe) finding a way to relate to ourselves in a physical/emotional way. We are learning to be okay with difficult feelings, we are learning to stay focused under the stress of the particular Asana we are relating to.

If a teacher or Yoga center has a vested interest in keeping you coming back to the class they may not be interested in informing you that 'you' can do this stuff on your own. Indeed it is my 'strong' opinion that 'real' practice doesn't start until you are 'doing' it on your own. Until you are able to relate to your self on your mat with no need of any encouragement or ego tickling from an outside agency, you are still outwardly in 'need'.

The practice of Yoga is taking you to a place where you have no need or reliance on anything outside of yourself. Look at the great Yogi's as an example. They were all solitary figures, they were all (as far as I'm aware) beyond the concerns of the 'silly' people that surrounded them.

Yoga has become a 'group experience' and maybe it has to be that first to give the ego some thing to do. But as you may or may not know 'group dynamics' can keep you pre-occupied for years until you realise that you don't really need approval or acceptance form anyone but yourself.

It seems to me that Yoga practice challenges the very thing we need to get started, the Ego. We love it, we hate it, we like this person then we don't. We go to this class and it's great until it's not and we go to someone else and they are great until they're not.

What conclusion can you come to?
That it is all necessary?
Or you can go straight to the heart of Yoga?

How long do you want to take?

How long have you got?

And .....
Where is it

You think you are going?

In My opinion!

I'm sorry and I do apologise for not doing what I know I 'should' do.

Which is, before I say or state any thing I 'should' put before it 'In my opinion'.

I don't like it when someone (including myself) makes a statement which has 'is' in it.

A statement such as 'Fred is an idiot'. Would have more truth to it if it read, 'In my opinion Fred seems to behave like an idiot when I am around him'.

So I hereby declare that whenever I make a statement on here,  if I 'do not' state 'in my opinion' in front of it, you can 'assume' (?) that I am saying that.
The reason you can do this is because this is 'my' blog and therefore everything that 'I' have written is ' in my opinion'.

It's an interesting subject. We may meet someone that has not had a very good week, seems to be very upset about something and therefore appears to be not very sociable. We may have contact with this person for an hour or a couple of minutes and we may walk away, and without ever meeting him again we have the impression that this person is like that the whole time, for the rest of our lives. We make a judgement about this person forever etched in our memory based on what. 'He is a ''''''''', is based on very little evidence whatsoever.

Being a 'yoga teacher' or whatever you want to call yourself gives you the opportunity to catch lots of people's judgements. They will judge you on your behaviour, your mood, the way you dress, etc. You may be very concerned about being seen in a particular way so may adopt a habit to show people that you are a certain way.  You may dress a certain way, be positive, appear happy, etc, in order to give people an impression of what/who you are. This is very tiring!

This leads me to some thing that occurred to me today. If you are yourself you do not have to act in any way at all. You are you and needn't worry about being or behaving any way at all.

How do you know you are you? :))

Hmmm, now there's the thing isn't it. . . . . .  . . .. .  . . . .

If you find yourself making an effort to be positive, happy, open minded etc, aren't you imposing on yourself a behavioural mode of operating that is or appears to be better than another way of operating?

In my opinion YOGA will enable you to be very clear about who you are!

it is all in the mind pt4

Everything we have done, thought, good, bad and/or indifferent is logged away some where in the mind.

Freud the cocaine addicted psychologist put the mind (for want of a better term) into three parts.

The Ego
The Super Ego
And the Unconscious.

The idea (I believe) for therapists of the psycho type is to unravel the so-called unconscious mind. It is believed by them and others that the unconscious or unacknowledged part of ourselves can influence our behaviour beyond our conscious control. It is as if we have disowned a part of ourselves and that part of ourselves we have disowned is not letting go, it keeps influencing us from beyond our (conscious) awareness.

We may then begin to use certain behaviours and habits to keep this unowned part of ourselves at bay, e.g, smoking, drinking, compulsive overworking, gambling, over eating, etc.

Okay so that's it more or less. Yes, I know there;s more to it than that! But we need to get to the point.

As we begin to 'do' asana practice we are starting to influence the 'shape' we have molded ourselves into. We are in good or bad shape according to all sorts of dynamics. We are fit, but not fit, we are uptight and inflexible, we are chilled out and over flexible and or flabby and ungrounded.

It's not a question of right or wrong 'it is just the way we are.' How many times do we hear people say, 'It is just the way I am made'.

Really what people are saying when they say that is, 'It is the way I have been conditioned to be.'

Then the process, if that's the right term, begins. We begin to de-condition ourselves with Asana practice. For a start we may stand taller and we may breathe better  and deeper. Just these two influences can do a great deal for one's self image, self esteem programmes.

The rest as they say is history, we continue until we either give up or die, whatever comes first.

As we continue through the practicing we will certainly hit very difficult places in ourselves. But the longer you continue the more you realise that these places are conditioned to appear real. But are not!!

They are all in the mind!

As a small child I went through a phase thinking about death. I worried that my parents would one day die. I can't fully remember how long this fretting went on for but one night I remember coming to the stark realisation that I too would one day die. At that point I felt a relief and I worried no more.

As an adult I have had several close encounters with the 'reaper' and I still have made no conclusions as to what happens after we die.

As the old Yogi says; "It is wanting, wanting and more wanting that makes you worry,  stop this wanting!"

Indeed what is it we think we need so badly?
What is it I think I lack?

If I go deep into the process of surrender I realise I lack nothing. I am complete as I am. The lack is in the mind. I may 'Think' I want or need something and am immediately cast into a process of anxiety, doubt, fear etc.

Relaxation is profound!

When most of us think of relaxation we maybe think of watching TV, listening to music or reading. But deep relaxation is a journey, a physiological deepening of the brainwave patterns from Beta - Alpha - Theta and finally into Delta.

This is a scientific fact!
Amazing!
and so simple.
All we have to do is keep still and wait. Focusing on a single point helps the thoughts to drop away. A mantra or the sound of the breath is a good place to focus.

Really you have to admit it is not complicated. It is challenging but not complicated.

What is it we (as humans) are motivated by?

Why do we exist from the perspective of intelligent enquiry?

What are we here for?

With a little bit of research we (may) realise that we are conditioned to function in specific ways. This conditioning is usually dependent on our birth conditions, in other words, where, when, how, and to whom we are born.

This a generalisation to an extent and there are always exceptions to the rule.

So if we accept that we are conditioned we see next that we will either rebel or conform to our conditioning. A little simplistic maybe but it will suffice to get the point across.

At some point in time some of us reach a crisis in our lives, maybe all of us do, but some of us are more affected by them (the crises).

We seem to live in a very materialistic world and most of us are conditioned to go to work and earn money. We are taught that we need to do this to get on in life and to get the things we think we need or want.  Some of us excel in this game and some of us (in the eyes of others) seem to fail.

Carl Jung (apparently) said that any man or woman with problems after the age of 40 had a spiritual problem.

Whether he was right or wrong doesn't matter too much. The truth of it is, if you have a problem getting on in life, or you have got on in life and seem to still be unhappy you (may) have a problem, spiritual or otherwise.

And this is where Yoga can help.

The answer lies within we are told, but where?

When we go within we may find a whole range of voices clamouring for attention (sub personalities) and we may become confused for a while, trying to decide who we really are. we may give up for a while, but sooner or later we see that there is not much of a choice. We either try to stay in denial of our inner voice(s) trying to tell us something, or we stop and listen.

Yoga practice is a perfect and complete system of transformation. (in my opinion).

Ommzz

What you believe to be true is true or becomes true within the parameters of your ability to transcend varying degrees of truth.

I am a .....  or I feel ------- or I am going to .......... are statements that are more or less relative to some thing - desire, ambition, whim etc.

The relative question 'who am I?' should be delved into as much as possible.

Why?

Why not?

Unless of course you are too busy enjoying yourself, worrying about everything or can't simply be bothered.

Inhale - exhale and watch the clouds drift by.

Omzzz

For me it's simple.

You either practice or you do not.

You either practice or you do not.