Many people that I speak to are struggling in various ways. Struggle has been with us since our arising from the primordial slime way back in darkest history. In recent years, perhaps since the industrial revolution, we have been fooled into thinking that life 'should' be easy. It 'should' be easy, but for many of us, it is not easy.
As I mentioned, we have, if we choose to find it, a place inside of us that is peaceful. In order to find this peace we have to bring the mind under control. This thing called the mind is only doing the job that we set it to do. The job we set it to do was to 'think.'
I have no idea when the power to, think rationally, evolves in humans, but it does. It serves a purpose. It helps us to work things out, to process information, to be rational/objective about life and the things that happen to us within it.
Then one day we realise that we can't live without it, or more to the point, it can't live without us.
This is a strange realisation; we have a mind, our mind, and yet we cannot seem to control what it does. It wakes us at three am and reminds us we are 'not very happy' or that the world is not such a great place after all. Or that we are in a job we don't like, in a relationship that does not fulfill us, or some other such dissatisfaction. We push it to one side, tell ourselves it's a passing phase, that we will do something about it soon, but not today because we are too busy.
And so it goes, on and on and on...........
Some of us seek an answer to the problem, perhaps we go to therapy, church, or some thing else that brings us a sense of peace and/or belonging. !2 step groups serve the wonderful purpose if uniting us with like minded sufferers - we identify with others that are struggling and it makes us feel better to know we are not alone.
According to Yoga it is the mind itself that is the problem. The mind, which is a tool, has taken over the whole operation, it now runs the show, and 'we' have become victims of it's bullshit.
Pranayama helps to energise the brain and nervous system, it helps the brain and nervous system to relax. We relax, we feel better. Ah lovely. But wait, soon the mind comes back in again to remind us that we need it, it needs us. We do more pranayama and we once more relax and feel good. We do some yoga postures, we feel out aches and pains, we breathe deeper, we feel better.
We do this more often, the mind starts to become desperate, it scares us, by telling us we need it or we may go mad! We laugh, we cry, and slowly we begin to see the light of reason.
Why should we be unhappy?
Why should we suffer and struggle, to do what, live?
Yoga is hard rewarding work ............
As I mentioned, we have, if we choose to find it, a place inside of us that is peaceful. In order to find this peace we have to bring the mind under control. This thing called the mind is only doing the job that we set it to do. The job we set it to do was to 'think.'
I have no idea when the power to, think rationally, evolves in humans, but it does. It serves a purpose. It helps us to work things out, to process information, to be rational/objective about life and the things that happen to us within it.
Then one day we realise that we can't live without it, or more to the point, it can't live without us.
This is a strange realisation; we have a mind, our mind, and yet we cannot seem to control what it does. It wakes us at three am and reminds us we are 'not very happy' or that the world is not such a great place after all. Or that we are in a job we don't like, in a relationship that does not fulfill us, or some other such dissatisfaction. We push it to one side, tell ourselves it's a passing phase, that we will do something about it soon, but not today because we are too busy.
And so it goes, on and on and on...........
Some of us seek an answer to the problem, perhaps we go to therapy, church, or some thing else that brings us a sense of peace and/or belonging. !2 step groups serve the wonderful purpose if uniting us with like minded sufferers - we identify with others that are struggling and it makes us feel better to know we are not alone.
According to Yoga it is the mind itself that is the problem. The mind, which is a tool, has taken over the whole operation, it now runs the show, and 'we' have become victims of it's bullshit.
Pranayama helps to energise the brain and nervous system, it helps the brain and nervous system to relax. We relax, we feel better. Ah lovely. But wait, soon the mind comes back in again to remind us that we need it, it needs us. We do more pranayama and we once more relax and feel good. We do some yoga postures, we feel out aches and pains, we breathe deeper, we feel better.
We do this more often, the mind starts to become desperate, it scares us, by telling us we need it or we may go mad! We laugh, we cry, and slowly we begin to see the light of reason.
Why should we be unhappy?
Why should we suffer and struggle, to do what, live?
Yoga is hard rewarding work ............
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