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Opposites

Posted by Michele Harney, Yoga Rathgar & Dundrum – Dublin

“The moment you are truly aware of your opposites, of both the positive and negative feelings toward any situation, then many tensions connected with that situation drop out, because the battle of opposites which created that tension is dissolves. On the other hand, the moment you lose unity of opposites, the awareness of both sides within yourself, then you split the opposites apart, erect a boundary between them, and thus render the ejected pole unconscious where it returns to plague you as a symptom. Since the opposites are always a unity, the only way they can be separated is by unconsciousness – selective inattention.”
–Ken Wilbur

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Yoga is a Journey to be Experienced

Posted by Michele Harney, Yoga Rathgar & Dundrum – Dublin

“Yoga is a journey to be experienced. However, that journey not only requires patience and perseverance, but also enthusiasm and respect.
In this respect, as in any relationship between people, it is necessary to consider priorities. To students interested in undertaking a home practice with its attendant fruits, two suggestions are offered.
First, think of Yoga as acquiring a new book. Before you try to fit this book into what is probably an already overcrowded bookshelf, take a decision to remove an existing book to make room for the new one.
Do not, however, try to remove a large book thus making unrealistic adjustments in the space on your shelf (and thus unrealistic expectations around the space in your life). Instead, take out a slim volume and this way, create realistic space without Yoga becoming another pressure or something else that is jammed into the already overcrowded bookshelf of your life.
This leads on to the second suggestion.
Life is often divided into agendas, two of which are headed “chore” and “reward”. Try to keep some room on the latter list for your practice in the same way that you would greet an old friend. Take time in their company and return to your everyday life rejuvenated and better able to embrace your surroundings.”
– Paul Harvey 1996

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Counter Posture in Practice

“Yoga teaches us that with every action there is both a positive and a negative effect. Anything we do in life will have both a positive and a negative effect. We must recognize what effects are positive and what effects are negative. Then we must stress the positive while we neutralize the negative. In all details of āsana, we must follow this principle.”

-TKV Desikachar – Religiousness in Yoga

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Boredom is the effect of…..

Boredom is the effect of suppressing something.
When I’m bored, it’s because
there’s a thought or feeling inside
that is so intense or uncomfortable
that I can’t bring it out so I distance myself.
Then I become bored and lose focus.

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While on the matter of food…..

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“While on the matter of food, the practitioner must not just consider whether the quality of food is nutritious, nourishing and appropriate to the constitution, age and season, but one must also consider the attitudes with which it is consumed. The most appropriate food, consumed with a negative attitude is as poisonous as the wrong kind of food.”

T Krishnamacharya

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Habits – Saṃskāra


IMG_3141“We become conditioned to certain habits or comfortable grooves. When we can’t continue in them because of change, we suffer. Even if the change is the right one and will lead to a better awareness we would rather stay in the comfortable groove even knowing it to be a negative pattern.

An example of this could be taking time to practice and the patterning of the psyche compelling us to find other activities or in-activities to fill the time. We can make a career out of finding a myriad of ways of staying too busy to make time for ourselves.”

Excerpt from article by Paul Harvey cYs on Āyurveda & Yoga