Yoga can change your life from ordinary to extraordinary. When someone promises you the extraordinary, you might want to protect your wallet. In life, extraordinary results tend to be much more than we expected. Sometimes, the cost of a coaching session can be far more than we intended to pay.
With that said, we know that a Yoga session is much more affordable than life coaching. Once you have learned the basics of Yoga, you can practice safe techniques for free. If we see our lives as limited, Yoga can bring us far beyond our expectations.
How is this possible that Yoga can raise your self-expectations so much? Within each of us is a belief system. We place limits on our capabilities, due to past set- backs. We feel someone else will be more successful because of a birth right. Our self-worth is bruised because we fail to stand up after falling down.
We are all human and we make mistakes. If you hand someone every opportunity on a "silver platter," this is no guarantee of success. Why do I say this? One who is not born into the "lap of luxury" is filled with desire. One who lives a life of luxury has little desire.
If you have desire, you can put it to constructive use. Focus on your objective and take positive action in that direction. Taking action is more than most people do in a lifetime. Many people would rather complain than get up and move forward.
How can Yoga extract the extraordinary from you? Yoga is often seen for the physical benefits alone, but a competent teacher should be able to teach you how to meditate and train your mind. Some will say, "Train the mind for what?"
You can train your mind for anything. A pessimist can train his or her mind for failure. A pessimist expects failure at every turn in life. If you expect failure, loss, grief, and pain, you will receive it. Your mind will gladly create what you expect to see.
On the other hand, if you practice Yoga to train your mind for success, you can expect to see joy, bliss, and happiness. There will still be challenges on the extraordinary path to success, but a mind filled with optimism, is a mind trained to try everything toward progress.
To train the mind, in Yoga practice, requires the intention and the right teaching. Most people will not be able to meditate without investing time in training, research, study, and practice, with a teacher or Guru.
At the same time, some Yoga teachers, focus only on physical postures (asanas), which means there is a lack of quality training on the subject of meditation. This makes searching for the right Yoga school a challenge, but quality training is available to those who seek it.
© Copyright 2009 - Paul Jerard / Aura Publications
Paul Jerard, E-RYT 500, has written many books on the subject of Yoga. He is a co-owner and the Director of Yoga Teacher Training at: Aura Wellness Center, in Attleboro, MA. aurawellnesscenter.com aurawellnesscenter.com He has been a certified Master Yoga Teacher since 1995. To receive Free Yoga videos, Podcasts, e-Books, reports, and articles about Yoga, please visit: yoga-teacher-training.org/member-offer.html yoga-teacher-training.org/member-offer.html
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