Yoga provides a foundation of emotional strength to become the master of our mind rather than a slave to negative emotions. The scattered and dulled rays of the mind are gathered back into the concentrated state. The higher practices of yoga then refine the concentration into meditation and finally to the highest states of Samadhi. Yoga is not just doing attractive postures and temporarily feeling more healthy and relaxed. It is a precise formula for transforming our entire lives from ignorance to truth from darkness to light, and from a life identified with the impermanent material objects to spiritual immortality.
• Yama is the ethical restrictions including non-violence, non-stealing, continence, truthfulness and abstinence from greed.
• Asana posture.
• Pranayama the breath control
• Niyama is used to develop internal purity including cleanliness or saucha, contentment, austerity, study of scriptures and self-surrender.
• Pratyahara is the abstraction of the senses.
Each of these accessories to concentration and meditation give yoga practitioners not only survival techniques for emotions into their positive potential of pure joy, discriminative knowledge and freedom. These practices are simple, but essential to bring about physical and emotional health. Knowledge of the unity of life cultivated. It is a spiritual gift of god.
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