The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga: A Practical Guide to Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit

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situations, circumstances, and people who deplete you of your vitality and enthusiasm for life. When it comes to your yoga pract ...

attention is enlivened by your awareness and becomes a more predominant force in your life. By learning to value your attention ...

ences, which change moment to moment. Your environ- ment changes, your friends change, your employment changes, your body change ...

world as an individual while your inner state is one of a universal being. This is a state of being in which fear and anxiety do ...

4 The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga If you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear. —Lao Tzu W e have r ...

laws to the practice of yoga because the principles that underlie yoga are the principles that support a life of bal- ance, flex ...

Friday Law of Detachment Saturday Law of Dharma (or Purpose in Life) Law 1. The Law of Pure Potentiality The first spiritual law ...

are. Rather, it is your social mask, the roles you are play- ing. At one moment you play the role of friend, in the next the ant ...

Cultivate stillness in your body and mind. Between poses and between movements, bring your attention to the quiet stillness wit ...

Memorize the mantra, whose vibratory qualities res- onate with the Law of Pure Potentiality, and silently repeat it a few times ...

return is proportional to the giving when it is uncondi- tional and from the heart. This is why the act of giving has to be joyf ...

breath. Anytime throughout the day that you feel resistance in your body because things are not going the way you think they sho ...

smile, a prayer, or a small gift. Similarly, be open to receiving the gifts that come to you during the day. They may be gifts f ...

where you have access to unlimited choices. Some of these choices are made consciously, while most are made unconsciously. The b ...

too hard, making a less than ideal choice, and the karmic cost is your discomfort. Karma presents itself in your present by remi ...

feels uncomfortable, pause and see the consequences of your action with your inner vision. Honoring the guidance that is provide ...

for transformation in a world that is understood as the expression of an underlying field of energy and informa- tion. Stated si ...

the universe is as it should be. Give up your need to struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. By ...

its own variations on postures, pace, style, and intensity. As a system dedicated to awakening flexibility in body, mind, and sp ...