The Anti-Yoga Yoga

By: Jules Ritter (View Profile)

A great many businesses have grown up around stress, the black plague of our time. The better ones give practical common sense advice without resorting to any hogus pogus hubris but many have hitched their wagons alongside in the quest for an easy money maker. Don’t be fooled.

Take Karma for example. Implied as something that is out of our control and to which we should become resigned—psychological handcuffing if ever I heard it. Karma is, in my book, the equivalent of hitting a golf ball in a shower. The harder you hit it the bigger the bruise you get. Funny that.

We are all victims of our own fate. The decisions you make today determine what happens to you in the future and basta. You don’t need a wind chime or an expensive fifteen step course to “enlightenment” to help you work that one out.

Stress? It’s your decision.

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posted: 09.08.2008
Elisa
I can't stand the psycho-babble often connected to yoga - and more often than not, it comes from people who are as hypocritical as your teacher with the boob-job; because if you live it, you don't just go and blab to everyone about it. If you really have that serenity that comes from yoga, you don't stress people out and try to convince them to fit into some weird mold to be "true" yoginis. If you live it, you just let others find it for themselves. Because that is the only way it can work. Everything else is just pretense. And it causes more stress than it cures ;-)
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