Yoga Sutra 2.11 Meditation counteracts active afflictions
What afflictions emerge during your meditation?
The second way to deactivate afflictions, meditation. What happens when you try to be with what is just as it is? Have you noticed patterns in your ways of moving, breathing, thinking, feeling, perceiving and interacting? How do you cultivate your meditation?
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Yoga Sutra 2.28 Effects of practicing the eight limbs of yoga
Yoga removes impurities, increases wisdom and establishes discriminative awareness
Are inefficiencies in your attitudes, posture, movements, breathing, thinking, feeling and interacting? Are there any signs that you are growing in clarity and wisdom?
Yoga Sutra 2.25 Freedom by removing confusion
The relationship between consciousness, experiences and awareness
In your daily activities, do you tend to identify more with your sensations or with your ability to witness? Are your ways of moving and breathing liberating or restrictive? Are your interactions informed by your awareness or by your experiences?
Yoga Sutras 2.30 & 2.31 The Yamas, wise ways of reducing tension
Love, Integrity, Fairness and Generosity, Curiosity and Reverence for Life, Abundance and Simplicity.
A great universal vow to appreciate and honor the interdependent nature of life in all forms and manifestations. Every tiny step towards applying the yamas, creates the opportunity to see yourself and the world around you in a new light and through a different lens.
Yoga Sutra 2.32 Niyamas: Wisdom – svadhyaya
How well do you know yourself?
Wisdom, understood as pure common sense, is instrumental to your most important duty: your wholehearted and open-minded participation in life’s perfection. How do your tendencies influence the quality of your life?
Yoga Sutra 2.32 Niyamas: Enthusiasm – tapas
Tapas is an invitation to participate in every moment with passion and motivation.
Tapas is the fire that helps us overcome our tendency to predict and to assume that we already know what will happen. Tapas is also the heat resulting from the friction or going against the grain of our habits. Concentration, another meaning of tapas, is necessary to notice if your habits are useful or harmful.
Yoga Sutras 2.30-2.34: Guidelines for reducing strain and struggle
The yamas, niyamas and pratipaksha bhavana
An efficient energy management system so that your energy is not generating more agitation but instead contributing to enhance the quality of your life.
Yoga Sutra 2.41 Effects of clarity II (shaucha)
As you commit to establishing clarity within, what do you notice?
Remember that gaining clarity will make more apparent the areas where there is still confusion, just like cleaning and organizing one closet or room in your home will make the disorderliness in other rooms more evident.
