“哇，你现在教瑜伽了！一定赚大钱咯！！”
让我来告诉你，如果不是分享的心得，如果不是瑜伽改变了我的人生，那么瑜伽将会是我其中一个我用来消遣我多余的时间，一个能让我减肥的运动罢了！！
要我当面，大厅广众，说话？？？你真是开玩笑吧？！？！？
认识我的朋友都知道，我是个活泼可爱，什么都说的开心果。
都说了，是认识的朋友，才知道。
那么，陌生人呢？也该没什么大问题吧！！
那你就大错特错咯！！！
还记得刚踏进瑜伽这个世界，
纯粹都是为了填补那多余的时间，
还有那颗好奇的心。
和其他人一样，“什么是瑜伽？怎么这么流行啊？到底是什么东东？”
那时，内心的空虚感，越来越汹涌。
就是因为这个空虚，让我有了勇气去认识了瑜伽！！
这个勇气与决定，我并不后悔。
也因此，我的人生改变了！！
瑜伽果然很神奇，
不是在与那些高难度， 那些你想“这一辈子不可能”的动作。
而是学会摆脱“以上”的思想。。
很多人都说，“哇，你学瑜伽？！？ 你的身体一定很软咯！！”
我老师常说“没错！这样的想法是没错的！”
的确这种想法是没错，
可惜，瑜伽并不只如此，并不如此肤浅啊！！！
因此，我有了分享的心得。。。
在我老师还没问我“有没有兴趣教瑜伽”前，
认识我的朋友，没几个知道我有学瑜伽。
不是刻意隐瞒，就是觉得没什么好炫耀的。。。
认识我的，当问起我“怎么样了，瑜伽学了什么啊？”
我就会不停的，把我的感想与感恩，一一的分享了。
朋友问我：你老师给你commission啊！
最后，大家哈哈大笑了！！
那时，就觉得 ‘我找到了！我找到了！’
找到我心中纳闷已久的空虚，找都我心中空虚的伴了！！
就是“contentment"!!!
这个归宿感，我在瑜伽找到了。
学了四年，就抱着学习的心态，不断地学习， 不断地前进，同时也学了如何放下。
心想，我好幸福，遇见这么好的老师，遇见了瑜伽。
好想大家也来分享这份快乐。。。
学了四年的某一天，
我老师即将要飞去泰国一个星期，
她问了我这一句 ‘有兴趣教瑜伽吗？’
我还记得，我看了她很久，也hmmmmm了很久，
就说 ：也没什么兴不兴趣的。 可以与其他人分享，也是不错的哦。毕竟，瑜伽是很好的东西。
我老师接着“我将要飞往泰国去，你帮我代课一个星期， 可以吗？”
我说“啊！！你是认真的吗？我可没想过叻！！hmmmm......."
我老师说“如果你能帮我代课，那么下次我去印度，家里的水电费，屋租，就不用烦了。如果这一次代课，学生能够接受你，那我就不用烦了。”老师大概是这么说的吧，这一段，没什么印象了。
想想，老师，你是真的烦呢还是？？？你可有你的一套哦。。哈哈哈
就这样，我与瑜伽，开始了我们俩的路程。。。。
Showing posts with label Yoga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoga. Show all posts
Friday, September 3, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
The Mind
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character;
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
When u look back, it all comes from the mind. Get your mind back to the right view and it is never too late for the real happiness and peacefulness.
Yoga
After yesterday shooting, a friend of mine who is the photographer asked me, what is Yoga??
I almost forgot that i used to be one of those who used to think that yoga is about postures. Not only postures, but is about the 'impossible' postures. It is nothing wrong to think like that because it is what we 'SEE' and 'HEAR'.
Postures or Asana is one of the elements in yoga, which is the minor one. The main element is the truth of yoga which by using your body, experiencing and observing your body, understanding your body and ACCEPT your body.
I used to mention in the class. The flexibility in yoga is not all about the body flexibility. It is the mind flexibility.
"What to you mean by mind flexibility? The mind is stretchable?".
It is the extend of the mind to learn to accept the things that you can or cannot do, to accept things that you are able and not able to do. It is the flexibility of the mind that we are talking about.
For sure things that we can do, we are so proud of ourselves. If we over react about it, it becomes show off or ego.
How about things that we cannot do? We will try our very best to avoid it or we keep on accusing ourselves that we have not done our very best and we need to be a better man? We become low in self-esteem.
We need to understand that everyone is unique in their own way. How far more better man that you can be?? When every times you do or go beyond what you can do and keep on doing it, you will be tired. When things that you have done and it did not turn out to be what you wanted, you become frustrated and unhappy. If things keep on going like this, you will become depression and lost.
Yoga is to teach you to learn to ACCEPT who you are. By doing the postures or asana, without any expectation, you just do it. Without judging whether you can or cannot do that postures, without categorizing the postures or asana, you just try it. Even without doing that postures or asana, you are actually practicing yoga. Because, yoga is teaching us to let go and accept who we are. Even you did not manage to do the postures or asana, but you have learned to let go the expectation and open up your mind and try it. You didn't feel sad or bad even you did not manage to do it, you are practicing acceptance. Acceptance towards your body, acceptance towards what you can and cannot do. Acceptance about the imperfection. This is the flexibility that yoga is talking about.
"Relaxation and lying down on the floor will be just lying there? I am a over active kind of person, how can i do that? It seems to be mission impossible to me "
Lying doesn't mean by just lying without purpose. You need to focus on you breathing, observing each of your inhale and exhale and feel the existence of yourself at this present moment.
Throughout this process, you will notice that a lot of things suddenly pop up in your mind, things that matter or doesn't matter to you. It is the NATURE OF THE MIND. You do not have to reject the projection of the mind instead put your focus and concentration on your breathing, observing each of the inhale and exhale. Don't feel bad if your focus and concentration have slipped away with all those projection, pull it back to your breathing. It definitely takes times to learn to focus. It may takes months or years, but it is never impossible.
If someday that you will realize after few practices that all these projection in the mind become lesser and lesser. It doesn't mean you are able to control the projection of the mind, the mind is still the mind, but you have move your focus and concentration to your breathing and you just let the mind be the mind. It is when you can feel the peacefulness inside yourself. You will also feel content and real.
Sometimes, we keep on searching on the peacefulness and contentment by going to a specific place or by doing a specific thing in order to find the peacefulness or happiness. But, it is only a moment of peacefulness and happiness that you are talking about. After you left the place or did the thing, you will be back to emptiness.
Yoga teaches us to understand the nature all of beings and by understand that all beings is impermanent, you will be able to search for real peacefulness and happiness. Detachment is one of the way.
When you are doing a certain postures which you hated the most as it stretches your nerves and you are in pain, but by giving no response to this feeling and detach from it, by understanding that feeling just the feeling and it is impermanent and it will pass. You are learning detachment.
After release yourself from the postures or asana, all the feelings that you have just felt and it was so real for that particular moment, it is all gone. You will realize that feeling changes every moment and it is impermanent and why do we need to react with things that impermanent. By being able to see and understand things in such a way, impermanent, why do we still have to be so attached to things in our life.
We sad because of things happened in the past and we worried because of the things that we are not sure. How about the present moment?? We are living in the present moment for real but we tend to 'live' in the past or in future and that is why we are unhappy and not in peace.
Yoga is the daily life and it teaches is to live at the present moment. It is the simple living with a higher thinking.
May all beings are in peace and happiness.
Om Shanti!
I almost forgot that i used to be one of those who used to think that yoga is about postures. Not only postures, but is about the 'impossible' postures. It is nothing wrong to think like that because it is what we 'SEE' and 'HEAR'.
Postures or Asana is one of the elements in yoga, which is the minor one. The main element is the truth of yoga which by using your body, experiencing and observing your body, understanding your body and ACCEPT your body.
I used to mention in the class. The flexibility in yoga is not all about the body flexibility. It is the mind flexibility.
"What to you mean by mind flexibility? The mind is stretchable?".
It is the extend of the mind to learn to accept the things that you can or cannot do, to accept things that you are able and not able to do. It is the flexibility of the mind that we are talking about.
For sure things that we can do, we are so proud of ourselves. If we over react about it, it becomes show off or ego.
How about things that we cannot do? We will try our very best to avoid it or we keep on accusing ourselves that we have not done our very best and we need to be a better man? We become low in self-esteem.
We need to understand that everyone is unique in their own way. How far more better man that you can be?? When every times you do or go beyond what you can do and keep on doing it, you will be tired. When things that you have done and it did not turn out to be what you wanted, you become frustrated and unhappy. If things keep on going like this, you will become depression and lost.
Yoga is to teach you to learn to ACCEPT who you are. By doing the postures or asana, without any expectation, you just do it. Without judging whether you can or cannot do that postures, without categorizing the postures or asana, you just try it. Even without doing that postures or asana, you are actually practicing yoga. Because, yoga is teaching us to let go and accept who we are. Even you did not manage to do the postures or asana, but you have learned to let go the expectation and open up your mind and try it. You didn't feel sad or bad even you did not manage to do it, you are practicing acceptance. Acceptance towards your body, acceptance towards what you can and cannot do. Acceptance about the imperfection. This is the flexibility that yoga is talking about.
"Relaxation and lying down on the floor will be just lying there? I am a over active kind of person, how can i do that? It seems to be mission impossible to me "
Lying doesn't mean by just lying without purpose. You need to focus on you breathing, observing each of your inhale and exhale and feel the existence of yourself at this present moment.
Throughout this process, you will notice that a lot of things suddenly pop up in your mind, things that matter or doesn't matter to you. It is the NATURE OF THE MIND. You do not have to reject the projection of the mind instead put your focus and concentration on your breathing, observing each of the inhale and exhale. Don't feel bad if your focus and concentration have slipped away with all those projection, pull it back to your breathing. It definitely takes times to learn to focus. It may takes months or years, but it is never impossible.
If someday that you will realize after few practices that all these projection in the mind become lesser and lesser. It doesn't mean you are able to control the projection of the mind, the mind is still the mind, but you have move your focus and concentration to your breathing and you just let the mind be the mind. It is when you can feel the peacefulness inside yourself. You will also feel content and real.
Sometimes, we keep on searching on the peacefulness and contentment by going to a specific place or by doing a specific thing in order to find the peacefulness or happiness. But, it is only a moment of peacefulness and happiness that you are talking about. After you left the place or did the thing, you will be back to emptiness.
Yoga teaches us to understand the nature all of beings and by understand that all beings is impermanent, you will be able to search for real peacefulness and happiness. Detachment is one of the way.
When you are doing a certain postures which you hated the most as it stretches your nerves and you are in pain, but by giving no response to this feeling and detach from it, by understanding that feeling just the feeling and it is impermanent and it will pass. You are learning detachment.
After release yourself from the postures or asana, all the feelings that you have just felt and it was so real for that particular moment, it is all gone. You will realize that feeling changes every moment and it is impermanent and why do we need to react with things that impermanent. By being able to see and understand things in such a way, impermanent, why do we still have to be so attached to things in our life.
We sad because of things happened in the past and we worried because of the things that we are not sure. How about the present moment?? We are living in the present moment for real but we tend to 'live' in the past or in future and that is why we are unhappy and not in peace.
Yoga is the daily life and it teaches is to live at the present moment. It is the simple living with a higher thinking.
May all beings are in peace and happiness.
Om Shanti!
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