November 19, 2009

Yoga and Meditation: Understanding and Self Awareness

Last week we discussed the Seven Day Challenge. An exercise designed to lead to better understanding and awareness of the self. Without the ability to think clearly, nor an intensity of feeling and emotion, how can you hope to awaken you inner powers, and abilities. How can there be poise, alertness, how can there be an awareness and awakening. Life becomes mundane, futile, boring, and worthless.

In the lesson 2 and lesson 4 of the Yoga Awakening Training Collection we spend a lot of time on these topics. We provide numerous exercises designed to help us to gain important insight and understanding about ourselves.

So I suggest that the very first thing you need to do is to find out why you are thinking in certain ways. Find out why you feel certain things, have certain emotions. Don’t try to alter or analyze these thoughts and emotions. Just accept them. Understand them. Through understanding, there will come a new clarity and intensity to your life.

Find out what motivates you. What are you likes and dislikes? What brings you happiness, joy and satisfaction? What brings you pain, suffering and displeasure?

Although you can find these motives through analysis, this is only the first step, not the solution. The comprehension still can not be real or complete. We still can not achieve total understanding. It will be real only when there is an intense awareness, in the moment these actions and feelings occur. Then you will see there relevance and extraordinary subtlety, their fine delicacy.

This all occurs when you are able to forgo the dualities you create in life. The “I must”, or “I must not”. The “I must have this” or “I must not have this”. “I want to achieve this”, “I want to change this”. In this compulsion you will never be totally observant of the swift wandering and perversion of thought.

Most of us have been bound and crippled by our past. By our education process. By our traditions and beliefs, to think in these limiting ways. If you choose to keep these mental boundaries intact, be aware that your ability to think will also be limited to these constraining boundaries. You will never be able to expand your consciousness beyond these limitations and boundaries. Effectively you have imprisoned your consciousness.

So become aware of your mind. It’s must haves and must have nots’. With this awareness, will come the ability to capture even your swiftest thoughts in the moment they occur. In this awareness will come a new awakening of consciousness and intelligence that you have never experienced before. This is what we mean by Yoga Awakening.

Review the exercises in Lesson 2 and lesson 4 of The Yoga Awakening Training Collection.

There are so many secrets that Yoga and Meditation will reveal to you. There are so many ways that Yoga and Meditation can make your life easier and more fulfilling. Come and explore these secrets with me now by going to: http://www.yogaawakening.com

To a Stree Free and Abundant Life,

Anthony D’Agostino, Founder of YogaAwakening.com

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