Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-Realization

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More than a form of exercise, yoga is a way of existing in the world rooted in physical, mental and spiritual practices. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Chopra is a clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. years of Hindu Raja Yoga, and this book breaks it down into steps that are really beautiful and seemingly easy. This isn’t something people are normally aware of, but you can experience your level of awareness with the following exercise. I would be left behind feeling like I hadn’t begun to get everything from the last pose I needed to. Full description of all of the yoga poses - nice but probably not set out in a way that’s super useful other than to refer back to *after* a class.I have read the book from cover to cover, and this week began my weekly practice, following along with the book again.

The first section by Deepak sets out mental and emotional exercises to do for about 6 weeks looking at yourself, your life and in particuar your thoughts about who you are, your body and your mental limitations. The intensity of something you casually like will be shallow compared to the intensity of something you deeply love. Right living in Yoga means “bringing in the light of awareness to decrease the things that block fulfillment. The author, Chopra walks through each of 8 limbs of Yoga, offering Mantras and exercises to help fulfill each of the limbs. When following along with a yoga class or exercise video, the session would move on to the next pose or the same pose just on the opposite side.We defend ourselves against pain, which makes us fearful of the future, and against the past, which brings back painful moments. It’s one of the best explanations I’ve read or heard of the eight limbs of yoga and how to apply them in life.

Take time to look over the practices of peace listed above, and honestly ask yourself how well you are practicing them. Royal Yoga is the highest and most important of the yoga traditions—an all-embracing path to personal transformation that reaches beyond any approach to wellness and healing that exists today. If you can see clearly that it didn’t—it probably made the situation worse—you have taken another step toward inner awareness. Note: I will make passing reference to Patanjali and his definitive work, the Yoga Sutras, but keep in mind that the traditional terminology isn’t critical—only results are critical.

Consider that the highest values in life, including love, compassion, creativity, empathy, beauty, truth, and spiritual inspiration, are what the arrows carry to our world. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

Chopra have collaborated on several projects including “Finding Connection Through Yoga” with Yoga Journal and “Radical Being” with Udemy.He serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and hosts the podcast Daily Breath. Just as the Title indicates its core message is for those interested in "living in the light," it takes a deep dive into practical ways in which the practice of instructions embedded into both the First Part narrative, and in the Second Part Yoga illustrations, and the explanations as to how they are effective. The second author Sarah-Platt Finger, walks through the Shariras, Chakras, Gunas, Bandhas, and then provides a one-page summary for over 80 different Asanas (poses) with their associated benefits and modifications. If you want the practices of peace to bring peace under your control, follow the two steps I mentioned for anger.