How can yoga change your life?

Hello Dear One,

I have been quiet of late as a I have been finishing up a big project that I have been working on behind the scenes. I am now ready to re-emerge and share with you some beautiful yogic teachings.

Last week I was having a conversation with a very dear friend of mine who happens to not practice yoga. He is a highly intelligent man, with a good heart, and a workaholic if I may add, and he shared with me a pattern of limitation that he has struggled with his whole life. He explained that he has resigned himself to that is just how it is and doesn’t know how to change it.

I shared with him that you can change anything about yourself that is a limitation and that has been created by the unconscious ego mind, even if it was created from early childhood, or a past life. I shared that yoga teaches us that the unchanging aspect of who we are is where we need to rest our attention and anything that is changing is considered to be the ‘unreal’ you and therefor you can uncreate it, because it is not real.

So to ponder, if your limitations are the changing aspect of who you are and considered to be ‘unreality’, then why would one ever need to feel trapped in the cycle of cause and effect and thus experience suffering because of unconscious behaviours?

I was quietly reminded how lucky I am to have the tools of yoga to know that I can change anything that is posing as a limitation or a Samskara (karmic wound) through the path of consciousness. In fact I can say that I have dedicated my life to revealing the truth of who I am and have been consciously working with the limited aspects and patterns that have presented in my life journey.

So how can we make positive and lasting changes through the practice of yoga?

The first thing is to recognise who you are, and also who you are not. That is, you are a timeless Being of Divine Intelligence that is ever present and part of the whole. Your are the soul which is boundless, limitless, you are consciousness in action.

The divided you thinks you are your thoughts, your story and your past pains, your likes and dislikes, and it keeps you a victim to your unconscious patterns.

Yoga effortlessly guides you from the place of misidentification of who you think you are; time-bound ego mind, to remembering that you are eternal. This is not just a philosophy but rather the experience through the felt sense of the body through the subtle energy bodies (Koshas).

Firstly removing the filters of mind by withdrawing from the commentary and then softening back into your Prana body. This is what is meant by moving from form to formless. Here is where you experience inner stillness, silent awareness and inner peace.

Now the question is, do you want to stay stuck and miserable for the rest of your life, or do you want to take control and redirect yourself back on the path of soul evolution and freedom? The choice is yours.

Choose to change. Choose consciousness. Choose you. It is that easy.

Love Julie