Yoga is a psycho-practice of changing consciousness, which helps to achieve balance, harmonizes the inner world and helps to improve health. It helps to know that part of ourselves that we are not aware of.
Why yoga is not gymnastics
In the modern world, most people associate yoga with the twine, lotus, headstands or other asanas, sometimes with relaxation. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. It cannot be said that working with the physical body is not yoga, but this is not the main task of yoga.
Sooner or later the body will grow old and die anyway. What will happen next with consciousness, where will it go? People don’t usually ask this question.
Yoga answers the most important questions:
- Who am I?
- why do I live?
- where will I go next?
The most interesting thing is that yoga does not give a theoretical answer to this question, but the most practical one.
This answer arises in a person as a complex palette of feelings, as unique, like fingerprints, his own experience of this life. This answer is the most unforgettable experience a person can have.
To find this answer, to live it, to feel it – this is the main task of yoga. If you learn to meditate, if you manage to go into the depths of your consciousness, subconsciousness, then we can say that the task of yoga begins to be fulfilled.
Yoga is the path on which you, through certain algorithms, disciplines, certain practices, reach a state where the desired answer comes to you, when you realize your own deep nature.
Bliss, happiness is our nature, we feel it in everything. This state needs to be remembered. And yoga is meant to return to that state.
Another feature of this ancient practice is that the process is more important than the goal. If you set a goal to achieve some result in a certain number of days, the very essence of yoga eludes you.
But, when you enjoy the process, the goal itself begins to manifest itself. When you enjoy asanas and pranayamas, the very enjoyment causes the consciousness to begin to open itself within you.
5 most unexpected results of practice
No one is surprised if a person began to practice yoga, and thanks to this he improved his health, the figure became more slender and toned, and his posture improved. But the most interesting thing is that sooner or later on the path of all who seriously practice yoga, mysticism begins.
Synchronization and “mystical” coincidences
Everything starts to happen successfully and on time. You stop being late, meet the right people at the right time, get to the right places, and things start to happen as if by themselves.
As a result of practice, you synchronize with the rhythm of life, with its pulsation, you tune in to your own wave. By the way, one of the signs by which you can see that this process has begun is when you accidentally glance at the clock, and there are the same numbers, for example: “14:14”.
Changing the environment
The space around you gradually begins to change. If there was a violent alcoholic or a bickering couple next door, they will move out. At the entrance suddenly begin to make repairs.
If you run in the same place for a long time, reading mantras (this is also a yoga practice), they will definitely start building something there.
For example, the author of this article ran around the park for several years reading mantras, and then a path was laid along this path, lanterns and benches were placed.
Meeting interesting people
Your environment will also begin to change. Life will lead you to very interesting people, and in the most unexpected ways. You will begin to meet those who will become teachers for you, who will give you the experience of experiencing magical states. Believe me, the author of this article has had many such amazing meetings over ten years of practice.
Development of intuition
A person who practices yoga has a new point of support for making decisions. He begins to rely not only on logic, but also on the inner voice, intuition, sensations. He feels with his heart how to do the right thing, and decisions are easier for him.