Let’s talk about health. It is a priority, but why?
Many might say it’s about looking and feeling good, but that’s only a small part of it. On a deeper level, there’s much more than the surface-level view, we need to think about physical, mental, and energetic health.
What’s that about and what’s the difference? Here is my take.
I practice yoga asana to keep my physical body healthy and strong. I practice yogic breathing (pranayama) while practicing asana as well as throughout the day to maintain open channels in my energy body via the Nadis (the channels through which energies flow) and the chakras (the energy centers). Keeping my physical and energy bodies healthy facilitates the vibrancy and clarity that allows my psycho-emotional or mental body to be balanced and aware versus judgmental and negative. Patanjali refers to this in the yoga sutras… YOGA CHITTA VRITTI NIRODA which roughly translates to uniting consciousness to quiet fluctuations (YOGA = to yoke, to join, to unite; CHITTA = consciousness; VRITTI = fluctuations; NIRODAH = quieting of).
When your mind is clear, the fluctuations are removed, there is no good, bad, mine, or yours. Attachment, aversion, ignorance fear, and ego are removed and we are free to be one with everything and all is one. We are but a microcosm within the macrocosm and that’s OK!!
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