In behavioural therapy there is a term called 'low frustration tolerance'.
This refers to the inability to (still) be calm when things don't go our way.
If we have a 'low frustration tolerance' we will not get very far if things become difficult. It's a bit like going to work for example, to a job that we don't really like and knowing that we 'need' this job for the time being because we 'need' to pay for some things etc. If we suffer from 'really low frustration tolerance' we will not be able to stand the situation and we will probably leave the job. This will lead to more trouble. If on the other hand we can see the bigger picture, i.e, that his job is okay for the time being, we will be able to handle it better.
So relating this to Yoga. If we find a particular posture is difficult and we cannot handle the feelings that come up when we 'do' this posture, then instead of 'not doing' this posture we'd be better off doing it a lot! In that way we can look, more or less objectively, at what happens to us when we 'do' something that makes us uncomfortable.
Another thing; 'feeling better' as opposed to 'getting better'.
This is continuing on from the last two blogs about doing yoga because you want to get rid of something, e.g, tension, stress etc. After doing an exerting class we feel better, more relaxed etc, but nothing has changed apart from that.
We will still do the same things until 'we' need to go back to another class to 'get rid of' the tension, stress etc.
On the other hand if we want to get better, i.e, improve our life, we had better become more aware of ourselves from the inside.
This is easier to do if we sit still and meditate.
Actually to say it's easy is not true.
It is 'simpler' but 'not easier' to sit still on your own and look deeply into the nature of your own mind, and therefore bring about change at the cause of your problems, i.e, how one relates to others, the world and the self, through the conditioned reality of one's own mind.
Hari Om!
This refers to the inability to (still) be calm when things don't go our way.
If we have a 'low frustration tolerance' we will not get very far if things become difficult. It's a bit like going to work for example, to a job that we don't really like and knowing that we 'need' this job for the time being because we 'need' to pay for some things etc. If we suffer from 'really low frustration tolerance' we will not be able to stand the situation and we will probably leave the job. This will lead to more trouble. If on the other hand we can see the bigger picture, i.e, that his job is okay for the time being, we will be able to handle it better.
So relating this to Yoga. If we find a particular posture is difficult and we cannot handle the feelings that come up when we 'do' this posture, then instead of 'not doing' this posture we'd be better off doing it a lot! In that way we can look, more or less objectively, at what happens to us when we 'do' something that makes us uncomfortable.
Another thing; 'feeling better' as opposed to 'getting better'.
This is continuing on from the last two blogs about doing yoga because you want to get rid of something, e.g, tension, stress etc. After doing an exerting class we feel better, more relaxed etc, but nothing has changed apart from that.
We will still do the same things until 'we' need to go back to another class to 'get rid of' the tension, stress etc.
On the other hand if we want to get better, i.e, improve our life, we had better become more aware of ourselves from the inside.
This is easier to do if we sit still and meditate.
Actually to say it's easy is not true.
It is 'simpler' but 'not easier' to sit still on your own and look deeply into the nature of your own mind, and therefore bring about change at the cause of your problems, i.e, how one relates to others, the world and the self, through the conditioned reality of one's own mind.
Hari Om!
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