YOGA IS NOT A PERSPECTIVE
When you begin to think of Yoga, it may look like another choice for you to get your desired health back. The attractiveness of this science as portrayed through advertisements is actually misleading.
With glamour and the promise of a good figure, Yoga actually has become more of a desire rather than a way of life. Yoga is not another perspective.
When the thought of Yoga dawns on you, be sure it didn’t happen automatically. Watching an advert or hearing a speech on Yoga is a lot different than craving for an experience of inner peace. And when intrinsically, intuitively, in a very subtle way, when a feeling develops in you that Yoga is the way, you can be sure that you have received a divine calling.
Yes! Yoga is not just doing! Yoga is a way of living; not through Asanas, Pranayamas, Shatkriyas and the like. Yoga is an active medium through which you can look beyond, intuite about every thought of yours, every emotion of yours, every act of yours. You can achieve a balanced mental, physical & psychological equilibrium.
Yoga for you should not be a 1 hour class of Asanas, stretches and currently, a power Yoga session (a corrupted form of western influence on a divine art of intuitive living). Yoga is way, way beyond that. Let me briefly explain to you…!
You will notice that all your sense organs are pointed outward – Your Eyes, Ears, Nose, Mouth (includes the tongue actually) & your Skin. The Mind receives so many messages, so many experiences through these sense organs. It is rather disturbing that so much of information in the form of subtle thought impulses are crowding the mind at any moment. But the mind has the ability to handle the information received from only one sense organ at one time.
The mind is also constantly analysing these impulses, switching from the information provided by one sense organ to the other. This is the chatter you experience in your mind and this crowds your thinking. If your distraction levels are high, you ability to concentrate is very low. Your frustration increases as the chatter interferes with your day to day activities and influences your thinking and reasoning abilities.
Anxiety levels go up and so does anger because of impatience. With the current trend to multi-task every day, the mind gets more stressed. And with the whole idea of catching up with time gaining
more importance in our lives, we are losing out on our sanity.
And then someone suggests you to meditate. Imagine, you are sitting idle, with your eyes closed, trying to do nothing in the midst of your own rat race! Isn’t it funny?
Just in the midst of this chaos, your inner being, your consciousness introduces to you this possibility of being able to relax, to slow down, bring your life in perspective and achieve everything you want to, in a very unfamiliar but comforting harmonious environment – MINUS the Rat Race. And you begin to believe in this possibility!
This possibility is living as a Yogi. No! No! No!…. You don’t have to go to the Himalayas, to the mountains! It’s a beginning of an inner journey that offers similar tranquility, quietness, and peace as you would experience in the mountains, in the comfort of your own home.
It all starts with a change in attitude. And this change in attitude progressively make you pray with a wish to gain control over yourself, blend into yourself very happily, feel relaxed and be in tune with your happiness. This wish is not just a wish. It’s a complete change in the way you prefer to look at your life here on. Its a paradigm shift in your thinking process.
Yoga is a preferred psycho-physiological fitness regime that goes beyond bodily fitness. It works at the level of your soul consciousness, getting you in touch with your inner core. It helps you transcend the gross presence of the body and enables you to go beyond the chatter of your mind and shallowness of your breathe. The experience is one of liberation.
Yoga reveals to you the so far unknown possibilities of you intuitive mind, the blissful experience of remaining strangely calm and not being distracted by any loud noise. Everything seems so pristine,
so very beautiful. The same environment that was a pain yesterday causing stress, misery, anxiety and fear of the unknown seems so very different and friendly.
The active union of this psycho-physiological regime does this miracle. It liberates you from the stereo-typed response to your situation, takes you beyond the familiar action-reaction response of
the mind and also increases the fitness levels of your body. This welcome change is a revelation in itself.