Yoga
What Yogic techniques and ideas can we apply on a regular basis, as well as in an emergency?
We learn through Yoga science that the body and mind are our instruments, not ourselves. We take good care of our cars, but we are not cars. We have complete control over our automobiles. The physical body is not designed to last indefinitely. Birth, growth, degradation, and death are its functions. This viewpoint considerably reduces our pain caused by attachment to and identification with the body.
We also understand that the mind is merely our tool, and that what we feel, our character, and personality are not our true selves. This enables us to navigate the mind rather than succumb to it. Although our feelings can be overwhelming, we are not our feelings.
We learned how our inner instrument operates and how to use our higher ability of the intellect to discern the best course of action for personal growth and self-realization. We learned to establish our power of choice after realizing that we are neither our senses nor our subconscious habits.
Yoga taught us how to flow our prana and clear any blockages that might cause stress and sickness. When we practice asanas correctly, we move our prana and promote well-being, especially when we are relaxed, focused, and breathing properly.
According to Yoga scripture, we may destroy ailments and live a vibrant life by expanding our prana (life energy) and purifying our subtle channels through pranayama.
The most essential teaching of Yoga is the understanding of how to improve our vibrational wavelength through pranayama and how this immediately alleviates pain through a change in our thinking quality in our mind.
Another priceless Yoga principle is that of concentration. How we can be rid of misery simply by focusing our minds. This allows the tranquil, joyous self to be revealed.
We have a plan to guide our efforts. We aim to avoid tamas (inertia, pulling down), calm down rajas (activity, egoism, passion), and feed sattwa in all facets of our lives (purity, balance, wisdom, harmony). The teaching of the gunas is essential in guiding both our external and inner lives.
The four paths of Yoga instruction provide the deeper teaching of Yoga. We address the source of our miseries by altering our Karma through Karma Yoga, sublimating our wants and emotions through Bhakti Yoga, directing our minds through meditation (Raja Yoga), and finally separating from the false self to embrace the Truth within. In other words, healthcare workers can accept the lessons of life and death internally, do their duty and let go of expectations and results, keep focusing and meditating while in action, and know that there is another picture than this one, a level of beauty, of perfection untouched by anything, that resides right in our heart.
Relax into God's love and care, detach from the dramas, breathe into the pain, exhale and let go, surrender to God's will and let go of one's own will, when overwhelmed.
