We tend to think of yoga as an activity with a number of physical exercises.  The original schools define yoga much more broadly than this.  Yoga is aligning our physical, emotional/vital, and mental bodies, so we live as perfectly coordinated beings.  It is about learning how to suspend the reactive nature of the mind so we can be ourselves, and to effortlessly navigate without any stress.  It’s an individual discipline that tells us how to navigate the objective world and preserve our vital energies.  It is a form of training, not all physical, useful to develop a habituated behavior that takes one back to her/his natural and healthy state.  

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Some of us drive vehicles that require premium gas to keep the engines healthy and long-lasting.  And we tend to follow the manufacturers’ instructions strictly.  It’s unfortunate, nature hasn’t given a set of feeding instructions to us to maintain healthy bodies.  Instead, we are expected to be discriminative, learn from our individual experiences, and respond intelligently to our body needs.  We are given a sense of taste to use it wisely and be discriminative on what we consume.  Shouldn’t we be as respectful of our bodies as we are careful about our cars?  

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The next time you sit for lunch or dinner; try to be mentally predisposed with right attitudes toward food.  We are advised to sit with an attitude of thankfulness to the people who prepared the food for us.  We mentally offer the food to the various agents of combustion and transformation within us, spiritually called Rudras.  These attitudes prepare our physical bodies to receive the food.  We should be  conscious of the food we take and intentionally enjoy the taste of it without being mentally distracted. 

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Each of us is made up of several layers like an onion.  All of these layers make up the whole but none of the layers completely represents the whole.  The three outer layers are obvious – physical, vital or emotional, and mental bodies.  The real ‘I AM’ is that force keeping all of these layers together in union.  Energy flows from the mind, through the forces in the vital body, positive or negative, to keep the physical body healthy or unhealthy.  The tendency to good or bad habits obviously starts from our mental body, and its effect is  manifested in a visible form on the physical body.  Wouldn’t it be nice to place ourselves in the company of those who would make us feel energetic and positive? 

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Our physical body is like a tent with the physical nerves as the ropes.  The ropes stand due to the arranged tension.  The lines of force can be known only through the ropes.  The ropes bind the tent in its own shape.  The lines of force holding our bodies stable and healthy are the product of our thoughts and emotions.  We are therefore a system of forces and not just flesh and blood.  This metaphor makes us focus on our emotional and mental health just as we focus on physical health. 

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Leadership is about constructing a triangle of functioning in this world, with will, love, and knowledge as the three vertices.  It is by no means an accomplishment of any leadership activity.....

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The state of Turiya defined in the ancient literature, means the fourth state.  We are familiar with three states of mind: awakened state or objectivity, which is where we are faced with subject-verb-object inevitability; state of sleep where subject-verb-object disappear; and state of dreams where experiences exist but in an involuntary manner. 

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Our relationship with nature has taken a new turn with the evolution of a branch of study now known as Biomimicry.  We began to learn from nature, not just extract from it.  Gratitude began to temper greed, and we began to imitate nature respectfully....

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How we relate with nature drives our individual experiences and our well-bring.  A study of the evolution of our attitudes toward nature will show two phases since the arrival of human species on the planet.....

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Our individual realities are driven by the experiences we have with the objective world.  And our experiences are framed by the attitudes we have on everything around.  We have examples all around of individuals who accomplished marvellous things simply through their attitudes...

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