The mind is a beautiful servant, but a terrible master.”

More and more people today want to be able to stop their mind. It seems like all of the thinking process got out of control, and a lot of stress is coming from that. But it is not only stress, frustration, confusion…nothing seems to go right.

Since an early age your parents and society put you to kinder-garden, school, university and different activity in order for you to learn. Since the age of 6 almost 8h a day you where programmed to think and act in a certain way. And it seems the more you could achieve and do, the more they would rise their expectation and studies, keeping you as busy as possible, making it for each generation an almost impossible task to achieve, so you can result either  as an achievement of society or a failure, in both cases society wins.

Just think of all the tests and exams of your whole life, you would never get an easy subject to have plenty of time to develop. They wanted you to be under pressure and stress your whole time, 5 min for one question, it was like time was never enough, and for 1-2 h you couldn’t breathe. Your best form of relaxation was quitting classes and enjoying some peace of mind away from that craziness.

And how can you love education, when the only purpose of it was “who is the best? Who has higher grades?” you would never hear professors and children talk “Ohh, you know how to write how beautiful, I love the math classes I understand how useful it is”.

No, it is only memory, no creativity, stress and pressure for 16 years of education. So after all this time you jump directly into a job, and there is the same system.

You get to a point where you are either sick, tired, unhappy, on medication, or other imbalances.

After school-work you go home, eat and go back to your study or tv. So, now you feel you are doing nothing, not thinking, you are just relaxing in front of the tv.

The problem is that, this is the last thing you need, after sitting all day in an uncomfortable position you come and lay in a posture even more damaging to your body.

Is not like you worked the body so the body needs to relax, you worked your brain, so watching tv is not going to relax it, will only get him more tired, jumping from emotions like love, amusement, drama, lies, once you are a pilot, once you are a politician, a wife or a criminal changing every 10 min, all these feelings are triggered in the body and it takes a certain amount of energy for the body to “live” what you’re watching. But then, you go to bed and expect everything to be perfect in the morning, and the body is trying to repair all your mistakes, but putting all this poison, one day it will crack.

It may start easy, with a headache, but medicine is there … useful for you to numb the pain, after it develops in something more powerful, again your solution is to take drugs, “go to the pill … everything will go away instantly” and you need stronger and stronger medication, until you lose total connection to the body.

Your body is talking with you, every moment of its existence, but you act like you are deaf. Only when the pain is unbearable you take measures.

When is the last time you said “I don t like it, but I do it for my body. It is not the best tasting food, but my body loves it. I am not a sport being, but I need to move for my body.”

But you don’t…until one day you damage your body in an almost irreversible way, disk herniation, schizophrenia, bipolar or other diseases and imbalances. So don’t blame the body for creating all this problems, it is just the consequences of your actions, it is not inherited, that is just an excuse.

I really enjoy when people talk about retirement, the truth is when that time will come, if you can still walk without using a stick or a wheelchair you re a happy case. But most of us are dreaming of something that will never happen. We just pay in advance the hospital and medicine and the people who will take care of us for some years, until the state will decide there is no more point or benefit out of your life.

Just search a picture on retirement on google, they make it such a joyful time full of healthy old people enjoying life, but be real with yourself how many people you know like that? Is that the reality?

Realizing this, an epiphany happens and then people go to all sorts of physical activities, with no awareness or no training they act like pro’s, they want to do the most complicated things, and the hardest things, from day 1.

Some of them have patience and it just clicks faster than others, but there is a big percentage that they come try it 1-2 times and they know is not for them.

So it took years and years of bad choices and you expect everything to be right in one day.

I say go and do all kinds of yoga and all kinds of physical activities but bring awareness to what you are doing, breath, adjust your posture in the end all yoga is … a good alignment and awareness over all asanas (postures of the body) some are more efficient than others, but that is for you to discover.

Some will try it a little and after a short time will say “Ok it is not for me, I need something energetic, I don t feel that my mind is stopping, and plus all that spiritualism and religion, it is like a cult chanting and I don t know what…”

For 16 years they made an effort of creating a habit for the mind to stress, multitasking, frustrate, think in a certain way, and they expect in 1 h X 1 time a week for everything to disappear.

The problem is not how many times you practice or go to yoga classes, is how much you use that information and that mentality. 1 h a week would be enough, but the second you get out of your “yoga practice” you return to all your old habits that put you in the first place in that state.

Now it is called practice because it is preparing you for what it’s coming, you… getting out of that room and start doing the real yoga, which is life. Have the strength and clarity to try and balance your life style.

The only purpose of yoga is to make you enjoy life more and move effortless trough each situation which you will encounter.

Yoga doesn’t care that you practice or not, nor your teacher, don’t do it for them or for anybody else to impress, do it for you.

For every practice remove all your disbelief’s, be absorbed in everything you do, every breath every limit, and once your attention will be focused on whatever you are doing there, you will have a glimpse of your “peace of mind”.

And once you know how it feel, you will know where to find it again, how to make it last longer and how to increase it’s potential.