Monday, June 22, 2009

Yoga Practice 111 - Break free from years of conditioning


The same situation can be either stressful or stress-free...the outcome depends on how you see things...the way they are or through a layer of conditioning that is based on assumptions and judgments resulting in false conclusions.

In an earlier post I talked about "reality being beyond duality"....a statement made by my late mother Poonam. I now have new appreciation for its meaning. If only we could stop labeling everything around us and creating a reality through our mind rather than experiencing the reality as it is.....the only way to come back to this experience is by having an open heart and letting go of fear....

Yoga asanas...inversions, twists, handstands are all physical practices to break the bodies' conditioning of only being one way...walking on two feet all the time and not another way...walking on two hands...