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Seeing Red.

21 Sunday Jul 2013

Posted by Tanya Dayman in Uncategorized

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Anger, Chandra Bedhana, Law of Attraction, Left nostril breathing, Pattabhi Jois, yoga

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Today was a terrible day.

The worst part of course was that having achieved some small degree of awareness… I knew that each shitty event that manifested and perpetrated my day was because I manifested it myself.

My bad attitude and seething anger attracted only more dukha. Bad space. Constriction and darkness.

The Law of Attraction. We all live it.  Like attracts Like. Focus creates expansion. I was bringin’ on the bad.  But how do we get off that particular unpleasant ferris wheel?

Well obviously one must go meditate, perhaps some Chandra Bedha Pranayama (left nostril breathing) but when you are soooo wound up and really upset, all of our own best wisdom may be found lying on the lawn just outside the bedroom window. Or nearest window closest to above-mentioned melt-down.

Tissue box be warned.  You may feel as depleted as I did today.

Anger is the most exhausting and debilitating emotion that one may be so unfortunate to host. Like a pathogen it sucks the life, or the prana out of you.

I am sure I shortened my DNA telomeres considerably today.   Dang.

Its days like this when I wonder if the yoga is working. Days like this when I question my very purpose.

But it is.

The yoga is working. How can my comparatively short experience with yoga measure up against 5 thousand years of enlightenment.

The journey is long.

As Patatbhi Jois famously said. “Do your practice and all will come.”

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Attraction, Reaction, Expansion and Addiction,

02 Thursday May 2013

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Faith, Law of Attraction, meditation, yoga

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How is it that when your interest in a topic peaks, everywhere you look you find references to it.

Lately, I have been thinking deeply about the Law of Attraction; which cites that
Focus creates Expansion and Like attracts Like.

So I suppose that it’s not a mystery that I often pick something up which mentions the Law of Attraction!

I knew someone once that believed that her state of mind had nothing to do with whether she would fall pregnant or not. I was dumfounded!

Doesn’t everyone know that Thought + Allowance = Manifestation!

One of the great gifts that yoga has given me is to learn to patient. Patient with myself, my practice, my career and with others who may have not made the vital connection that we are all in fact intricately connected. Our speech is only a small extension from our thoughts. I believe that if we could empirically see the bad energy patterns that negative thought sends out into the ether we would all balk at the possibility of allowing self-indulgent down-ward spiraling mental dramas unfold in our noggins.

Meditation is a great time to practice the Law of Attraction. Many believe meditation is about emptying the mind, which sounds very nice (despite being against the very nature of the mind) but what is the point? What are you in fact doing? This belief has also lead some churches to blacklist the practice of yoga because to them an empty mind is open to infiltration of demons.

I usually see lights and colours when I meditate. My teacher poignantly asked me one day… But what are you doing?  – Just sitting there and enjoying the light show?

Oh.

Meditation is about training the mind so that we can control it effectively, not so that it can control us… Ever found yourself standing in front of the panty wondering how you got there?

Meditation is about cultivating one pointed concentration.

Your object of meditation can be many things depending on your desired outcome, but imagine if you focused on seeing yourself as you truly wish to be. Imagine if you spent some time every day meditating on your breath, finding the stillness inside you first so that you can finally hear yourself – your inner teacher, and then visualizing yourself being what you have always dreamed being, having achieved your goals.

Visualization is that start to manifestation. It is the key. Next is faith. BELIEVE that it is done. And then comes gratitude.

Gratitude is the key to happiness. And you don’t need to take yourself off to uni to study positive psychology to understand that…

I never saw “The Secret” but I believe that basically that’s what it is about.  Setting about creating the life you want to live by FULLY believing that it is yours to be had. Your birthright.

Focus creates Expansion & Like attracts Like.  If your inner world clashes with your outer world then you need to remove the influences that are limiting you now – as long as you remain in harmony with the laws of nature and you mean no malice.

So don’t jinx yourself. To put it simply, “positive in the mind, positive in the world – negative in the mind, negative in the world.”

Is This Helpful?

12 Tuesday Feb 2013

Posted by Tanya Dayman in All Categories, Philosophy

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advice, ancient, Ego, helpful, Wisdom, yoga

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My teacher once commented that something was beautiful, but was it helpful? There are many heartfelt navel gazing yogic wisdoms being posted everywhere, and I of course am not excluded from this domain. However, I always ask myself. “Is this helpful?” it sounds nice but can this actually be useful for the layperson or a yoga enthusiast alike.

Is is easy to slip in to cryptic yogic waffle and espouse ancient wisdom, but well, as they say – when the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Of course this discussion is not limited to posting – but the vast array of “special” or “visesa” postures which are more advanced and seem to only serve the ego rather than anything else. This is not the case with all advanced postures. Many of these are effective as time management or efficacy measures. Why just stretch the quadriceps when you can stretch them and your gluteus and your external obliques (sides) whilst doing an inversion!

I once demonstrated for almost half an hour almost the entire range of headstand variations. I could do them yes. But the next day as my kyphotic neck screamed, I wondered whether I should have. Cut to next great wisdom from my teacher when I told him about my neck and the headaches I  suffered all weekend. “Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.” And here it is. This is so applicable in all day to day living.

I ask myself every day – whether it is yoga related or not – Is this helpful?

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I fell in love with yoga. That crazy gotta see you every day kinda of love. When I don't immerse myself in my yoga old habits creep back in and I loose my presence. Yoga is not just about asana. And that is one of the reasons that I have started this blog. Let me show you how to deepen your practice by being mindful of the philosophy, psychology and spirituality of yoga. Yoga is a lifestyle, and this lifestyle brings beauty and light.

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