relevant or not?

The past has happened, it affected us, it affected all of us to some extent. Psychotherapy will look at you, as you are now, and in relation to the past. It will take you back into the past, to help you uncover some of the things that affected you. It will allow you to analyse the past and your relationship to it.

This seems to help some people, and it's a blossoming profession.

Alternatively, there are those who tell us to let go of the past, to forget about it altogether.

In a sense, the past has no power of us. Unless we choose to give it power over us. People also, have no power over us, unless we choose to give our power away to them.

The reason we may give our power away is usually because we are conditioned to do it, from our past.

Hmmmm, so if we do not do in depth psychotherapy we will always be a victim of our unconscious, an unconscious that has been shaped by our past conditioning?

There are some that are more damaged by the past than others. Some have been seriously traumatised by abuses of various kinds. Psychotherapy would be helpful to these people, probably, as would all sorts of support.

What do we do then?

Who do we believe?

Well, if you have a problem, usually you'll try to sort it out. You can only sort out a problem once you recognise that you have one. That's the first step.

But then again, all problems stem from the mind.

So if we can get rid of our mind, then all of our problems will go away. In effect this too is true.

We all need to eat, sleep, go the the toilet, have company, warmth, and water to drink.

What else is there?

How complicated does your life need to be?
What is your problem?
What do you need to do?
What do you want to do?

Your Yoga mat, is the interface between conscious and the unconscious.