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Yoga Sutra 1.9: Imagination Do my thoughts contribute to the quality of my participation in my life? What are the stories in my head? What is the role of the stories I create? Is my imagination contributing to my presence? Does my imagination distract me from my life?

Yoga Sutra 1.8: Error Is there a gap between what I think I am doing and what I am actually doing? Do I do what I say I do? Do my actions match my intentions? How can I ensure that what I know is true?

Yoga Sutra 1.7: Knowledge: Direct experience, inference and trustworthy testimony What do I know and how do i know it? Explore what I know, how I know it and how can I ensure that what I know is correct.

Yoga Sutra 1.6: Ways of being: Knowledge, misperception, imagination, sleep and memory How do I know what I know? How do I know if what I think I know is true? What do I think? What are my dreams? What do I store in my memory?

Yoga Sutra 1.5: Know your tendencies Subtitle: Are my inclinations useful or harmful? Summary:To what extent do I know my own inclinations? How do my habits manifest pj=physically, mentally and emotionally? Are my preferences my best friend or my worst enemy? How do my inclinations influence my perspective, decisions and actions?

What do I identify with? Which of the ways of being I identify with are temporary? How do my labels influence my perspective, my choices and my action?

Yoga Sutra 1.3 As a result, embodied presence. What is my true nature? This sutra tells us what happens when we can regulate our ways of being or internal activities successfully. What happens when you choose to stay with these wordless sensations and the combination of everything that you are feeling without having to add an opinion or a story? Is it possible that your true nature feels spacious, formless, ageless and nameless? Might it be possible that your true nature feels timeless, without beginning and without an end?

Yoga Sutra 1.2 Yoga is regulating your ways of being Are you participating wholeheartedly in your own life? If you tend to get distracted, start by becoming aware of your own ways of beings. Notice how they affect you. Discern between what you can control and what is beyond your control in your body, mind, breathing and emotions.