“I understood that the attachment to myself and my image … was actually taking me away from my Self, away from this wonderful opportunity to just sit, just breathe….When under the sway of this obsession, my mind’s attention was always in the fantasized future, or the idealized or devalued past – never present to the reality of the moment.” ― Stephen Cope
Our Ego is a complicated part of our psyche. On one hand it’s the part of the right brain that allows us to take action, to make plans and to accomplish what we desire in our lifetime. It drives us forward and prompts us to be productive and presentable; to suit up and show up. These are all good things to aspire to. On the other hand, our ego can work subtly, powerfully and insidiously to take us out of the present moment with its insatiable appetite for validation. Lost in the throes of egoism (Asmita), we believe our self-worth relies on temporal things; what we do, accomplish, have, what we look like, or any other misidentification with the true self that inevitably causes great, unnecessary suffering (dukha) because the ego is never satisfied.
Yogic practices,(self control, self study, asana, pranayama and meditation), when done with patience over time, give us the courage to resist the ego’s call by yoking us to the present moment where our authentic, eternal self lives In short, by committing to this path we keep our ego in check because all of these practices create inner tranquility and equanimity, we stay in the stream of goodness and out of self-seeking, ego driven rewards.
Yoga this Week
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On Zoom and in the yoga garden, weather permitting
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