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How to understand with a peaceful mind and heart the adversities that comes in the physical practice?That takes time, and it's a process of a lifetime.
In Ashtanga Yoga method it doesn't matter how many series you are practicing, how flexible or strong you are, because we all will be struggling in some point in the practice. This point it will feel like a thick wall that block us to go forward. If you are "stuck" for a long time trying to do some movement or asana, maybe you feel hopeless, weak, maybe you will doubt the practice or yourself. Maybe you will catch yourself comparing to others. Many feelings can start to come up. Than the work of yoga starts.
Yoga starts to work when we stop competing to ourselves or pressuring ourselves in a time frame to acquire something. Unlikely our western lifestyle, in Yoga we learn slowly that there is no rush, we can not rush for something to happen. We can do our best, but only time will reveal the results and we can not expect anything from that.
Yoga starts to happen also when you put on your work and you get zero results. Maybe for many years. How to deal with that? How to be patient and equanimous? How to accept failure?
The moment you see that there is no failure, yoga is happening. It is not important how many things you are able to do. If you do your practice and feel more peaceful thats equal to big results.
The Ashtanga Yoga method is the only one Im familiar with that only the teacher give poses to the students and only until the student is ready physically, spiritually and mentally the teacher advance the student in the practice. This method is really humbling. Specially in the beginning lots of students want to rush and force their bodies to learn and do as much as possible. Maybe because is from our mentality that we need to exceed results. Slowly our ego gets broken and we learn that this is a shortcut.
We need to be humble, fail and fall. The poses in the method creates fake stress responses in the body and from the responses also creates lots of feelings. This is only a mirror for our lives off the mat. How to deal with situations when we feel fear, anger, lost, insecure or in pain? How to find peace in those moments?
The practice of Yoga is a practice of awareness. We start observing all those responses from the brain, all those feelings...some of them can be really negative and ugly and it's ok. We observe and we let it go and maybe one day those feelings, thoughts or sensations will not be back and only peace will remain.
It's is hard sometimes to understand logically why we have so many difficulties in the practice. Sometimes is mentally other times physically...Sometimes is both. Sometimes its brings strong emotions and we feel within beyond the body. Why am not able to do this? or why I'm not stronger or flexible enough? Sometimes we create a non loving way to threat our own bodies and ourselves.
I challenge you in the end of every difficult task to be grateful towards your body and your mind for being able to do so many things during the day. To really be thankful and to love your body and your mind the way it is. Im also challenging myself. This is a everyday awareness exercise. Be content with what we are and what we have it is one of the steps for a Yogic lifestyle. Just imagine how much peace this type of awareness can bring. We don't need to chaise something that do not belong to us at the moment and we don't need to force ourselves to be something different from what we truly are.
This is a beautiful realization. I hope we are inspired to have a peaceful heart and surround ourselves with all Divine love and light.
Namaste.
How to understand with a peaceful mind and heart the adversities that comes in the physical practice?That takes time, and it's a process of a lifetime.
In Ashtanga Yoga method it doesn't matter how many series you are practicing, how flexible or strong you are, because we all will be struggling in some point in the practice. This point it will feel like a thick wall that block us to go forward. If you are "stuck" for a long time trying to do some movement or asana, maybe you feel hopeless, weak, maybe you will doubt the practice or yourself. Maybe you will catch yourself comparing to others. Many feelings can start to come up. Than the work of yoga starts.
Yoga starts to work when we stop competing to ourselves or pressuring ourselves in a time frame to acquire something. Unlikely our western lifestyle, in Yoga we learn slowly that there is no rush, we can not rush for something to happen. We can do our best, but only time will reveal the results and we can not expect anything from that.
Yoga starts to happen also when you put on your work and you get zero results. Maybe for many years. How to deal with that? How to be patient and equanimous? How to accept failure?
The moment you see that there is no failure, yoga is happening. It is not important how many things you are able to do. If you do your practice and feel more peaceful thats equal to big results.
The Ashtanga Yoga method is the only one Im familiar with that only the teacher give poses to the students and only until the student is ready physically, spiritually and mentally the teacher advance the student in the practice. This method is really humbling. Specially in the beginning lots of students want to rush and force their bodies to learn and do as much as possible. Maybe because is from our mentality that we need to exceed results. Slowly our ego gets broken and we learn that this is a shortcut.
We need to be humble, fail and fall. The poses in the method creates fake stress responses in the body and from the responses also creates lots of feelings. This is only a mirror for our lives off the mat. How to deal with situations when we feel fear, anger, lost, insecure or in pain? How to find peace in those moments?
The practice of Yoga is a practice of awareness. We start observing all those responses from the brain, all those feelings...some of them can be really negative and ugly and it's ok. We observe and we let it go and maybe one day those feelings, thoughts or sensations will not be back and only peace will remain.
It's is hard sometimes to understand logically why we have so many difficulties in the practice. Sometimes is mentally other times physically...Sometimes is both. Sometimes its brings strong emotions and we feel within beyond the body. Why am not able to do this? or why I'm not stronger or flexible enough? Sometimes we create a non loving way to threat our own bodies and ourselves.
I challenge you in the end of every difficult task to be grateful towards your body and your mind for being able to do so many things during the day. To really be thankful and to love your body and your mind the way it is. Im also challenging myself. This is a everyday awareness exercise. Be content with what we are and what we have it is one of the steps for a Yogic lifestyle. Just imagine how much peace this type of awareness can bring. We don't need to chaise something that do not belong to us at the moment and we don't need to force ourselves to be something different from what we truly are.
This is a beautiful realization. I hope we are inspired to have a peaceful heart and surround ourselves with all Divine love and light.
Namaste.
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