I have already talked about the importance of physical activity in the development of personality and how it can, by focusing on the object or body center engine, directing the mind towards achieving any other objective, disciplined and taught her not to whims.

Yes, because our mind tends to usually do whims. In reality each of us would like to achieve results with as little effort as possible, like all machines, all children, all things of this world. And 'a law which leads to energy savings, the law of least resistance, so easy to one side but terribly harmful other.

In yoga practice this mechanism is very easily recognizable when it comes to stay long in postures, or asanas, because everyone thinks it is easy to invoke the concept of a liability but there is nothing easy nor really wanting to be passive income. The leave and giving totamente happen in this case is completely voluntary action.

The body arrived and led to its full stretch or force, will tend to return to rest as soon as possible, sending several to mind feelings of discomfort. He is an expert practitioner to recognize the true limits and the real need to return the body to rest, as they learn to look at how many times he has cheated by our own mind; lazy habit or simply not be determined and focused, maybe while you're taking a posture to think what to prepare for dinner. Reaching a position with the best of our physical capabilities requires a focus of our thinking on the objective without loss, to preserve the posture so intense that no superficializzarsi, request a further determination is achieved only through a voluntary act of relaxation, both of mind and body, able to achieve a 'further deepen the posture. That' s what we might call abandonment. When you achieve these results is something magical and powerful at the same time and few opportunities to learn this art in life.

The abandonment is to accept everything that comes, pain, tension, perspiration, thoughts of fear or discomfort, mental fatigue and so on, and once accepted all this is perceived as the mind can actually do more than oppose and brake. It may take us beyond the small mind, a space and time without space and time, where there are the usual limits, but little new possibilities to explore.

Yoga not only helps keep the joints flexible but also the mind, we can accommodate not only the postures but all those events that have not gone exactly as we wanted and above all enables us to accept the other taking and accepting all of them and not just what fits well with our personality or character.

Finally, the force given by Notre determination allows us to be rights in relation to life, without constantly bowing his head for fear of authority or lack of acceptance of others or simply for convenience and laziness and just standing we can aspire to move towards a objective.

I can say with confidence that yoga, if well taught and well-practiced, is a tool to learn all this and much more which is why it is not possible to consider a simple motor activity, but an ancient science for self-fulfillment.

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