Practice & Non-Attachment have been my yoga focus lately....
As you practice asana or mediation, you
may experience frustration, anger, joy, difficulty, ease, love, or any other thought
or emotion. These are fluctuations of your mind and are not real or part of you
because as soon as a feeling passes, a new one arises to cloud your mind. What
is real is the steady and joyful true Self, unchanging and everlasting. The
goal of yoga is to cessiate identification with the fluctuation of your mind to
reveal your true Self. In order to cease from identifying with your thoughts, Patañjali
prescribes practice (abhyasa), and
non-attachment (vairagya). Abhyasa is the practice of siting with fluctuations
while not letting them affect you, and allowing each thought to move through
you as quickly as it came. Vairagya
is the act of detaching from those fluctuations, being able to sit with them,
let them pass, and not attach to them. It takes detachment to practice and
practice to be detached, so the two must be practiced daily. Over time,
consistent practice of abhyasa and vairagya will quiet the mind and
allowing your true Self to shine through creating stability in joy in your
inner world so that you can sit in mediation longer, find that deeper place in
asanas, and bring you closer to the natural un-afflicted state of yoga.
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