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.