Yoga in One Syllable

Last time I alluded to the idea that limits can be both real and imaginary. When the mind is not controlled properly it can create all manner of false limits: our memories are full of misleading information about how the world operates and how we should behave in it. Whilst all this is true what [...]

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Our mind is constantly bombarded by thoughts, impressions and messages. To help get us through the day our mind retrieves hundreds of memories and combines this with real-time data from our senses. In a previous article I questioned the truth of memory, but how often do we question what our senses tell us has happened [...]

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Truthfulness, or Satya as the yoga texts term it, is something that most of us value highly in ourselves, and in others. It is also one of the key values we are encouraged to live by when we practice yoga. However, practicing Satya is somewhat more involved than fessing up to your fourth grade teacher [...]

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Our senses, jnanendriyas as yoga calls them, connect us to the outside world, they affect who we are, and who we become. But our senses don’t see the whole picture.

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