Yoga is a shift.

A shift from doing and feeling everything trough the body, rather than the mind.

The body in many culture is also called a vessel of a thousand souls.In the memory of the body, in your DNA is infinitely more information than in the mind. All that the mind knows is whatever kind of impressions it gathered since you were born. But your body has all the information passed down from every ancestor, since the process of life has ever begun.

It is more important to tap into that kind of information, than limit yourself to this one.

If you eat a piece of cake the mind will be very happy, if you drink alcohol or have drugs, the mind is in heaven. But all this activities gives tremendous pain and work for the body to regenerate, creates blockages and all kind of imbalances.

All the mind is doing is responding to impulses, more impulses more pleasure. The mind on its own will never take care of the body, it can go as far as to its own destruction, extinction.

If you overexcite your sensors tastes, food activities etc, your brain will naturally raise all its expectation for you, which is normal. Its threshold for what tasteful food means.

You are watching so much action movies, SF, comedy etc that in order for you to appreciate life it should raise at those standards.

You are eating so complex food in tastes that from only 1 spoon you are tasting the whole universe. The moment you eat a carrot, you don t feel nothing anymore, your sensibility to life is numbed.

You made love, to so many persons and watch so much porn that a kiss means nothing to you anymore. So many magazines, with beautiful people, physically, that all the people around you are ugly.The only way you can fell the world intense enough these days is trough the use of chemicals, artificial life. Because everything else is boring.

 

Serving the mind for me is like serving the Ego. Serving the body, is like serving the Soul. Your body has many more lessons for you to learn, that anything that the mind can ever teach. The mind should be just a translator, in between you and the material world. Not an authority, just a servant.

 

So this is the place where the intellect comes. Your discipline, you are the programmer of all your habits and patterns, you are the one who shifts the mind from an animal mind to a human being. To an aware, evolved animal.

Eat a salad, it may not taste that much, but wait for the body to see how it reacts, give it 20 min and see how you feel.

How your stomach feels, how your body feels. How your mind feels.

Listening to the body is like listening to your heart, the body knows what is right, what is proper for you to do or consume.

The mind may feel pretty cool in some big muscles built in a gym with no awareness, because this is what is propagated in society,  but the body feels amazing with strength and flexibility, find the balance in between. It needs space for it, to maintain its proper functionality.You may become as a rock, but there is little functionality to that. You may be big as a mountain but slow as a turtle, and for you, to sustain that body, it takes huge amounts of food, effort and time.

Look at a gymnast. The body is full of vitality, slim and fast, bendy and the range of movement is amazing.

What is the point of anything if not its functionality?

Is like eating, just to eat, no purpose to it. We eat to survive so we can have enough energy for us to explore, observe appreciate this world, help, evolve, enjoy.

Is like the lifestyle of so many. You work so you can survive, but you survive so you can work. All the efforts that you do in your life is to get better to your work that you’re not really enjoying most of the time.

All you are preoccupied is your comfort, bigger home, better car, expensive clothes, the next level in society values.But how much is your mind evolving, your feelings, you as a person, the persons around you?How in touch you are with yourself and your body, how hard it is for you to appreciate what you have already?

Why not the next level of yourself, not the next level on a society scale?

 

The truth is we always know the good answer to every situation. Either we feel it, either we listen to the body, either we observe nature…Yoga is living through the body. Realizing there is something greater than your mind, and your intellect, and this is the work of the creator itself.

You never go in front of a mirror and say: Overnight I’ll grown nails, and breath, and pump blood…. You just allow for everything to happened, you are so small.

Everything is taken care of, you just don t have to stay against this flow. You should help, try giving a hand to your breath, a rest to your digestive system, some “food” for the mind, some good emotions for the heart.

For me meditation is working with the mind, when you re used with over excitation, to much of everything, you give a restart to your PC. Start everything again from stretch. Stop all the activities you can in your had, and start with a clear mind. Give some peace of rest to the mind.

Start trusting that…

Inside of you there is a higher power,an intellect, which is taking care of everything, all its needed is for you to be aware and don’t stay in its way.

Start devotion, devotion towards creation, towards yourself. Your evolution as a human being is your main concern, when you evolve, everybody evolves.

 

Folding my new clothes.

I am very careful about my new t-shirt, my new clothes, I take very good care of them, I feel so good in them.

When i dress in something new, i feel new, a new me.

But isn’t it strange? how we act towards the new things, we also act towards people and everything around us?

How beautiful is a relationship in the beginning? You pay a lot of attention, make tremendous sacrifices, for the other person. She/he is like a new t-shirt, the moment you feel you it s getting old , You start paying less attention, when you wear it, when you fold it.

The same you are doing towards your partner and people around you.

Sometimes we take for granted what we have and we need certain practices, or some time away form them, to remind us what we are grateful for.

I think is very important for you to “get bored” out of something, it gives you time and detachment towards that. It makes you question the need, or benefits of something you have in your life.

Sometimes I find myself disconnected, sometimes I get lost into this society. Back into work, making money, having the same mentality as everybody else. In this competition of who gathers more. I become the person that i want to change. 

I question yoga and the practices. I question spirituality and the necessity of it. I question everything. I am not sure anymore of anything in my life.

Now this is a time for contemplation. It is a time for you to analyze. From an detached point of view. Your position. Your place and mentality here now, your needs.

This happens even with the love of your life. You have days when you look at that person and you ask yourself. How did a get here? With this person? It is like i have no feelings for my partner anymore.

Does it mean you need to pack your things and go? Cheat? Or just give it some time and settle back…?

I look at myself and compare it with my former self. I see someone more focused. More energized. Less anxious, more self-love. I see strength. And everything is because of this practices. Sometimes you get less attached to spirituality, because you need more attention to what happens around you. You need to reevaluate your path, the things you appreciate. And why not?… some goals that you’re not very attached to. A direction.

I realize I am human. And I have a human experience. Why would I act like a god and why would I need godly powers?

In an advertise, for yoga, it was written something like “Come and explore this technology that will transform you from ordinary to extra-ordinary. Yoga”

People where coming and after a few days they where telling their master “I don’t feel extraordinary at all.”

The master laugh and said “Well, you got it wrong, I meant I ll make you more ordinary, extra ordinary. Because that’s how you need to be. Only from that place you can appreciate life.”

Why do you want to be superior? Superior to others? What kind of sick person and mentality wants to be superior to someone? Why enjoying the suffering of others?

Don t you find this is sick?

This happens everyday especially in schools, bullying. People are so frustrated that in their frustration they are less concerned on them, but they want others to suffer and they to be good. And not only in schools, in many works environment and social activities.

There are people enjoying listening to other people, about their pain. Because they feel power.”I am better.”

I don t know how a part of society fall into this direction. But it has to do with the herd effect. They trust less on themselves and their only way of feeling better is trough  the pain of others.

There is a beautiful story about  a time when every human being was a god. An old legend says there was a time when all men were gods, but they so abused their divinity that Brahma, the chief god, decided to take it away from them and hide it where it could never be found

Where to hide their divinity was the question. So Brahma called a council of the gods to help him decide.

“Let’s bury it deep in the earth,” said the gods. But Brahma answered,

 “No, that will not do because humans will dig into the earth and find it.”

Then the gods said, “Let’s sink it in the deepest ocean.” But Brahma said

“No, not there, for they will learn to dive into the ocean and will find it.”

Then the gods said, “Let’s take it to the top of the highest mountain and hide it there.” But once again Brahma replied,

“No, that will not do either, because they will eventually climb every mountain and once again take up their divinity.”

Then the gods gave up and said, “We do not know where to hide it, because it seems that there is no place on earth or in the sea that human beings will not eventually reach.”

Brahma thought for a long time and then said, “Here is what we will do. We will hide their divinity deep in the center of their own being, for humans will never think to look for it there.”

All the gods agreed that this was the perfect hiding place, and the deed was done. And since that time humans have been going up and down the earth, digging, diving, climbing, and exploring–searching for something already within themselves.

Now your divinity should not really be a goal. You don’t want that power so you can use them and be better then others. It is the lack of wishing that actually grants your wish.

Only those who are worthy will tap into their divinity. You don t use this to brag. They will be given to you the moment you don t need them, the moment you are extra-ordinary. The moment when who you are, and what you have is perfect and you don t need anything anymore.

The universe is acting like god, god acts like you.    

When you see a beggar asking for something. Sometimes you give them.

Now imagine this scenery.

If the beggar is looking at what you give and makes a funny face as…“you could give more…” your instinct is to get angry and take everything he already has. Ungrateful

If he says “wow this is enough thank you” he raises and walks away because he only needed a little. You want to run after him and give him more. Grateful

When you are in a grateful state, you will naturally just get more.

Yoga is and will be no matter how detached i will feel sometimes. The best practices for me to appreciate life and better myself. The more attention i pay, the more i know, and the more discipline i get, the more is offered.