The True Purpose of Yoga

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what is the true purpose of yoga what is this ancient technique all about so there's a lot of misunderstandings of the true purpose of yoga and more like underestimations about the true value and power of the of this ancient practice so yoga is not about stretching your body it is not about performing a bodily posture and it is definitely not a physical exercise and when we can understand the limitations of the human mind we can also compassionately understand the limited ideas that we have created around the practice of yoga so the human mind really likes the benefits that it can verify through the physical eyes the physical benefits of yoga and there is a lot of powerful outstanding physical benefits to the practice of yoga like increasing your blood flow to strengthen your body to become more flexible to increase the circulation and the lung capacity to strengthen your immune system just to name few so these benefits are powerful already but actually these physical benefits are only the beginning state for yoga it is only where the yoga starts from and many of the practitioners stop here for the physical benefits and they will never actually dive into those deeper waves of yoga into those steeper paths where we can start experiencing the human consciousness in a more profound way so yoga started to spread as in reaction against the exploitation of the nature and the animals it started to spread as a reaction against the rising consumerism the straw the rising busyness of the human lives these rising stages of stress that were creating separation not connection so the yogis and sages were verifying through their own experience that there is more sustainable source of bliss and happiness found from within and this source of happiness and bliss is much more sustainable that any happiness that you can get from external world or any happiness that you can buy so yoga can change you profoundly from within it can change your brain it can change your mindset it can change the stress responses the emotional responses and most of all it can change your awareness so that we can start actually feeling how do we sense what do we experience inside our bodies inside our minds and dive into that witnessing consciousness state that will benefit your behavior in very very positive ways so when we start to learning to control the subconscious mind it brings you power to control your lives so that we don't fall into those autopilot tendencies subconscious tendencies and reactive patterns but were able with that witnessing consciousness to rise into that state of peace and into a state of non-reaction and it is all rooted in prana regulating and learning to regulate the life force in more efficient way and this will create space and the inter cellular space creates more vitality it makes the prana flow it creates well-being it creates positivity and most of all it creates space so that your heart can breathe its intelligence its softness its kindness space for your higher self the better version of yourself to rise up so yoga is really about tuning inwards into that inner sense of deeper self into that transcendental stages of yourself so that you can start experiencing and perceiving and relating to life in a more deep profound and meaningful ways and the real choice of yoga is to learn to know who you are who you are beyond that limited sense of self beyond that personal identity beyond those ideas that you created about yourself in those three arms where you are more subtle into realms that are more nuanced realms where you can find the clarity of your soul's purpose and this realm is really about radical freedom it's about tapping into radical acceptance radical kindness and ultimate liberation and in these realms the kindness of your heart starts to shine out in this realm the peace of your mind is rooted gently profoundly in your full full fullness of your being in these three arms your every action is integrated to the benefit of all life you