Hello everyone, this is Myra with holly police. Every day are your Beta and Yoga podcast. We've come into autumn, the Vata time of year. Even here on Kauai, we can feel the change. The wind has a little coolness in it, and the birds that summer in Alaska return for the warm winter. It's this continual change and evolution in nature that keeps life interesting and it's the same in our own lives and relationships to adapt gracefully to change requires flexibility in how we see things.
It's easy to become attached to our ways of doing things to our own point of view, to want to feel right and to fear the unknown, but a gentle shift in perspective can help us to adapt to change with greater ease. So today we'll talk about perspective and how it can help us embrace the new and let go of the old. So what is perspective? Well, it's a mental view or an outlook.
It's the way we see the horizon, but I also think of it as the way we understand how aspects of his subject relate to each other and to the
whole.
In other words, it's the ability to see all the relevant pieces in a meaningful relationship. We can look at this in terms of family and friends, work life and our relationship with ourselves, so can perspective change within us.
I like to think of babies or toddlers and their fascination with what's right in front of them, looking at things with eyes that have fresh perspective brings us to our truths and our higher self, but most of us process our experience through the filters of our memory and our beliefs or expectations rather than truly receiving and enjoying what's happening right now.
As we accumulate beliefs and we cleaned to them, our filters grow more complex and our perspective narrows and then we only received limited information and we don't really fully process what's happening right now in our lives. Over time. These half digested experiences you might say, they clog the pipes of perception. So let's do a little exercise to get some further idea of perspective.
Make sure you're in a place where you can sit comfortably and bring your attention into the center of your head and you find the center of the head by drawing a line between the eyebrows straight and the tops of the ears straight across and where those two lines cross, so from the center of the head, we have an opportunity for even mindedness and equanimity and now open your eyes and just feel how it is to be in the center of the head. How did things around you look?
Then adjust your attention from the center of the head right out to the front and feel this is it familiar. This is when we can become intense and, uh, when we're attached to something in the topic that we might be talking about or whatever we're looking at. And now move your attention back into the center of the head and again, just feel the difference and then move your attention to the back of your head and feel that.
In other words, you're viewing the world from the very back of your head is if you were going through two tubes, how does that feel? Maybe a bit detached, so from the center of the head is an opportunity to create heaven on earth and that even mindedness that we most of us would really like to have. So what's happening when we don't allow our perspective to evolve? Well, it's blockage in the energetic channels that are called the sorta in Ayurveda, and how does that happen?
Energetic blockage comes from an imbalance in the Dosha. Imbalances primarily result of how we eat and how we live our lives. Dosha imbalance limits our ability to evolve as a human being. Vata Dosha results in fear and anxiety and worry. Pitta Dosha imbalance will have us try to control things on the outside that we have no control over and confrontation and balance has this withdraw from life and tend to avoid participation.
I'd be imbalanced, will often occur from poor eating and living or is a result of Dosha imbalance. And when I'm these imbalanced, it reduces our enthusiasm for life often causing a distortion in our perspective and it will lead to what's called the BGI.
So the term I've been [inaudible] in Sanskrit is his misunderstanding or ignorance, meaning not knowing, and it happens when we restrict our perspective or we may have a correct understanding, but we have a belief that we're wrong and so we then take action in the wrong direction. Now, how does that happen? So in the Yoga Sutras, potentially explorers, a deeper understanding of of Deja according to potentially the belief that we don't change is a major cause of Asia.
Over time we create our self image and our place in the world, but we become attached to this personality that we create. We may continually be referencing I, I this and I that I'm better. I'm less than. I'm anxious, I'm beautiful, I know I'm right. We define ourselves by our beliefs and the beliefs that we don't change will cause us a lot of suffering because in fact, life is always changing. We can't help but change with it because we're part of it.
It's helpful to consider the fact that others have a different perspective and that that must have value too. We aren't always right with the limited and rigid belief system, we often experience obsessive desires or excessive attachment, particularly to our stuff or two people. Those things become the primary focus of our lives and that leads to more suffering and disappointment when the shine wears off of the things or a relationship falls apart.
Disappointing experiences can create unreasonable dislikes, what is called debased or versions and these diversions can become amplified by our some Scara, which is our memories and our experiences from the past or our impressions. Now the perspective can really get restricted and Abuja then manifest as fear of the unknown or the fear of what's coming next and this is the most difficult to overcome as well.
Tend to cocoon ourselves in past comforts or move through our days and a state of anxiety or stress and stress is another perception that's become prominent and modern culture. No, it wasn't a common word 40 years ago. The other thing that happens with that is that it's not just the fear of the unknown, but it is that our attachment then to our comforts.
Well, let's go back to that definition of perspective as understanding how different elements in an environment relate to each other and to the whole picture. If the environment is always changing, then the parts within it must also change. Even a fixed point will evolve in some way because of its relationship to other aspects that are changing. So to apply this concept to life in general, we understand that we're necessarily changing in response to shifts in life.
Whether or not we realize it, our relationship to ourselves and to others is always evolving.
I remind people that when one person, 50 percent of the relationship changes, the relationship has changed, which means that the whole picture looks different day to day and this helps us to free up stagnation from the past because each day and each moment is a fresh opportunity to be more of our true self and we can see others where they are instead of looking at them from our memory, and this takes us to what yoga really is. It's the whole picture. It's the union of body, mind and spirit.
Yoga leads us to a sense of wholeness and when we feel whole, we can enjoy all that life has to offer. We can embrace our relationships and think of others and because we know that we aren't lacking in anything we can give freely, which is such a fabulously satisfying feeling. I love teaching and trainings and doing consultations because I get to see people expand their perspective moment by moment and it is satisfying.
There's an amazing shift in perspective that happens when a person brings the doses into balance. In particular, when Vata Dosha comes into balance, the change is profound. Fear and anxiety and the desire to control everything in your environment and the desire to isolate all of that starts falling away and it has a wonderful impact on our relationships.
We'll see our friends and our family differently and we open up to many more possibilities in our lives is when we see people's careers and their work really expand and their enjoyment of their families. Our perspective broadens.
We develop the ability to look to solutions rather than just sitting in the problem, and this is huge in terms of enjoyment of life and I've seen it saved quite a few marriages in business partnerships since we're each ultimately responsible for creating our experience in life than our perspective is a big deal.
The notion of self responsibility comes into play, which is key in our spiritual growth as a human being, that spiritual growth being when we allow that ever changing part of us to keep coming closer and realizing the unchanging eternal part of us accountability opens us up to life because it means that we get to choose and be responsible for what comes from those choices and we make the best choices when we connect our heart and our mind and when we stay present moment to moment, allowing our
perspective to evolve according to the changing context. I aveda and yoga offers simple things we can do to keep us flexible and broaden our perspective in life. As I mentioned, keeping the Dosha is balanced and ugly. Strong is of primary importance. To keep a clear mind in state prison, a regular practice of pranayama meditation are really the ultimate tools Asana practice with the satiric approach and a fresh attitude is also very helpful.
Practicing Asana in this way means that we're motivated to still the ego and to get to know ourselves inside, and this is a beautiful thing for expanding our perspective. It's very different than a workout pushing efforting or acrobatics that has a limited specific result. By taking a southwick approach, we can really play without expectation.
For example, after proper preparation, we can approach us and inversions was a playful attitude and this is really a fun way to develop a new perspective in an immersion. Our Foundation has shifted and so we have to find a new way to stabilize and we have to put aside the habitual way we see the world. Another way to release ourselves from our habits and our perspective is through our intuitive energy practice, which helps to release our attachment to our some scars and memories.
And in this practice, we come into the center of our head just like we did earlier, and from that place of equanimity, we tune into our energy body and make sure that things are flowing smoothly. We can identify where the blockages are from our past experiences, and we can let them go. And when the president isn't colored by the past, we can expand our view of things in the present and step fully into our life. Thanks for listening.
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