Showing posts with label Thought Waves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thought Waves. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Stillness v Absence

Yoga is stilling the waves of the mind. I think of Financial Yoga as stilling the waves of money anxiety. I don’t see the point of meditation as getting rid of thought/money waves. You aren’t getting rid of the challenges. They are still there. There are important problems we need to grapple with. Which makes it important to worry, in the sense that it is important to think. What you are trying to avoid is those thoughts being given more attention than they should be. Being aware of them rather than pretending that they are not there. Acceptance of the waves, without giving them the power to dominate you. You want to think of the future. You want to think of the past. You want to consciously, and selectively, connect the two in the present. To compound what is important to you, and to make different mistakes that cancel each other out. Stillness is not absence. The waves are part of your path, and the aim is to create behaviours that draw energy from them.



Tuesday, October 06, 2020

Seen and Unseen

“Drsta nusravika visaya vitrsnasya vasikara samjna vairagyam” Yoga Sutras

"Vairagya, or non-attachment, is that state of consciousness in which the cravings for objects both seen and unseen are controlled by the mastery of will."

Our waves of anxiety don’t deal just with what is in front of us. Worries come from within, from our dreams, and from conscious ideas about what we want, should want, what can happen, what might happen, what we expect, what we expected that didn’t arise, and all the flavours in between. Yogis explain the types of waves through the three Gunas. Tamasic thoughts are the ones that bring us down. Like periods of being unemployed or struggling to find clients. Rajasic thoughts are like periods of being too busy, with no space for self-care or focusing on what is important in the long term, because you are putting out short term fires. Sattvic thoughts are the ones in between. The ones we want to pay attention to. Even though they are also temporary. Thought waves and problems (should) come and go. With changes in the supply of and demand for solutions.