What do you think you're doing now?

Why can't you do Yoga everyday?

Or, more to the point, why don't you want to do Yoga everyday?

Can't? Don't want to? Too tired? Too busy?

Get a grip!

If you don't want to do it - don't, go way and do something else.

If you are going to do it, then do it, and shut up complaining.

What do you think you're doing? Do you think it's all pink fairies and butterflies?
The things that you've gone through in your life have had an impact on your nervous system. The way you think, and the way you have been shaped have been caused by your life so far. Stop moaning about it and do something.

If you are unwilling to change, then don't, no one is forcing you. Who do you think wants to listen to your endless complaining, about the economy, the weather, how unfair it all is - we already know that thank you.

Have some respect for yourself and the people around you by keeping your mouth shut for once.

Listen. Breathe. Feel your heartbeat. Breathe more, and deeper.

If you want to drink and smoke and eat shit, feel free, no one is stopping you.

Some Yoga centers have a vested interest in talking rubbish, they need your money.

We don't.

OM

Asana Practice.

Asana practice is a specific dynamic designed to awaken psycho emotional conditioning for release.

Wilhelm Reich, as a scientist in the forties, identified chronic muscular tension in the body. He called it 'muscular armouring' and was the first person based in a psychologically oriented science, as far as I'm aware, that identified this phenomenon.

Chronic muscular armour is part of the mind/body dillema. If there is unacknowledged tension underlying the movements of the body/mind, there cannot be freedom.

This is why psychotherapy alone is limited, in my opinion, and such a long drawn out affair.

Asana's must be done correctly though, and it is worth time learning to do them properly, rather than throwing yourself around, and sweating your arse of, injuring yourself, and wasting time, in a class taught by someone that does not practice themselves, and needs the money.. You might as well go to a bodypump class or something.

There is a big difference between getting high and getting real........

If you want to wake up - get real.

You can go to any number of retreats, workshops, events etc, that will get you high for a while, but the long term investment in an ongoing committed practice will fulfill you on a daily basis, negating any need to escape anymore.

Hari Om to that..........
      

The slave.......

The mind, or the ego, or whatever you want to call this thing that thinks, is your slave.

If not kept in check it becomes a tyrant.

The voice in the head reminding you how terrible life is, how difficult it all is, and how bad it will all be. That one that wakes you up at three am to remind you that life sucks. Or is that just me? :)

So there are tranquilisers; some people apparently need these things. In fact, according to some literature I've read in the past, up to a third of the population of the so called civilised world are on some form of long-term medication. Even if it's half of the number it's still too many.

Numbing out all feelings is not healthy. And being on an emotional roller coaster isn't much fun either.

Yoga practices will keep you alive, will keep you engaged in feeling alive. Sometimes intensely so. When the roller coaster ride carries you away, you can go with it, perhaps even enjoy it. Alternatively you can stop and listen to what's going on inside your head. The trouble with this second option, in my experience, is it's too hard to sit still once the emotions are raging. So in this case one should or could do some intense Asana practice.

I don't really want to be a tranquil person all the time. Sometimes it's just not appropriate to say noting and bear all with a poker face. Sometimes I still 'need' to tell someone how I feel about what they are doing and how they appear to be affecting me.

There is thinking, and there is having thoughts that you are aware of.
There is feeling, and there is having feelings that swamp you.

Then there is the breathing connection to self. Becoming conscious through choice about who you are now and what you want to do about it.

What are you doing? prt 2

When you think. I mean when you really think consciously about what you are doing, how does it make you feel?

Are you satisfied/happy/peaceful?

There can be, if you look closely enough enough, an underlying anxiety that is always looking for a fix. We want to feel comfortable, and we want to feel relaxed. We compromise our energy to get what we think we want. One of the major driving forces, base chakra survival stuff, is the need and the requiring of money.

How much do you need? Have you worked it out lately?

Because one of the most popular ways to avoid life, living and intimacy, with oneself and others, is to work your arse off and tell yourself you're doing something good.

Money is necessary, that much is true. But this drive I see to get it, is life negating.

The other extreme is to live in denial of deeper connection to oneself through feeling. This is done in another creatively avoidant way. Going to endless workshops, retreats, holidays, and etc, and kidding yourself that you are 'working' on yourself.

Don't lie.

Anxiety is real. It's fear manifest. Fear manifests in an arena of doubt. Doubt is 'not knowing'

What don't you know?

When you meet someone that has the answer ask them; what is it they know that you don't.

I believe yoga, as a practical tool, will connect you deeper to who you really are.
I believe we all have natural talents, and I think Yoga can put you in touch with those talents. To reach the layer of authentic experience may require you to travel through layers of conditioning, in the form of discomfort and pain.

Yoga Asanas,  are psycho-spiritual templates. These practical positions of the body will realign and awaken the inherent intelligences in the system.

The nervous system, the hormonal system are information highways inside you - listen to them.

If you begin to listen deeply to yourself you will begin to drop the need for someone to show you the way.

Can you be bothered to live?

What do you call life?

What are you doing with this gift you have been given?

Yes, it's all relative.

You may be happy, until you realise that you are not.

How does this happen?

When you wake up to the fact that you are not awake.....

Definitely disturbing information.

Yoga can help to connect you to a deeper sense of aliveness. An aliveness that will make - what you consider to be aliveness now, appear as a dream.

Who can you blame for your misery?

Ah well.........

Yoga can help.

Time is an illusion.

You are always here. Why try and escape?

Going on holiday, is literally changing the scenery.

Perhaps changing the scenery gives the illusion that you are not here anymore, and now you are somewhere else, you can forget about being here, and become someone else.

Ridiculous huh?

What is it this need to escape from ourselves, this need to occupy all of this illusion of time?

'Oh, only another hour to go, and I can leave.'

It's funny isn't it.

Why do you suffer?

What seems to cause suffering is, doing something you don't really want to do.

On reflection, I realise now, the times of most extreme suffering for me, or extreme unhappiness, were the times I was 'not' being true to myself.

But then I say, 'well I was ignorant, I didn't know any better.' But, the truth of the matter is, I was scared to trust, and scared to let go and allow my deepest desires to manifest themselves.

Now what is it you said you are doing with this gift called life?

it used to bother me but not anymore :)

It always bothered me. 'Why do people go to such extreme lengths?' I wondered. 'Surely once they've realised the truth they don't need to go to Yoga classes, or workshops and retreats anymore?' It bothered me.

But now it doesn't.

Once you have realised that you are not your thoughts, where is there to go?

What is there to do?

There is a saying; 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, fetch water. After enlightenment chop wood, fetch water.'

So what? Nothing changes?

Well, there is another saying; 'For those that don't know, there is no answer possible. For those that do know, there is no answer necessary.'

Profound huh? :)

It doesn't matter what you have done. It doesn't really matter what you do now either.

What matters? Or to be more precise, what matters to you?

What are you doing?

Everything arises from, and returns to nothing.

Unless

Unless you commit to change, nothing will happen.

Yoga is a commitment.

Yoga is transformation.

You are miserable because you can't see the real truth.

What are you going to do?