6 Tips to Silence your Mind During Yoga

6 Tips to Silence your Mind During Yoga

6 Tips to Silence your Mind During Yoga How many times have you been doing yoga or been in a yoga class and thought about how much money you could have saved if you just stayed home last weekend? How you should really buy that eco-friendly yoga mat or a random song humming in your head? How the teacher is doing so well or wow I can’t believe I’m doing this pose so well! Well, surely some variation of these thoughts has crossed your mind in the middle of an asana.   Living in a busy world, with tons of responsibilities to fulfil and remember all the mental notes we have made, our mind has forgotten what being quiet is like. But as simple as the words “silence your mind” sound, it’s very tricky. With our shrinking attention spans, paying...

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Yoga: The Cause of Extreme Happiness

We hear a lot of contemplation on what is the purpose of life and there is so much discussion on having goals in every sphere of life from marks for students, to targets for salesmen, to weight loss or financial milestones. But in my humble opinion, the ultimate objective behind all of the above is to simply be happy. If every moment of our life can be full of happiness, it will manifest in everything we say or do. Life throws different stimuli at us every time and we do not control the stimulus at most times. But we are in full control of our response to the stimulus and thus whatever be the situation, from having a heartbreak to getting a pink slip, from facing a health challenge to financial woes, we can choose our response. Choose...

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