Five reasons of causing pain

Patanjali lists five reasons citta Vritti, causing pain (flare), namely: 

1. Avidya (ignorance or lack thereof); 
2. Asmita (sense of individuality, isolating human and distinguishes him from the group. It is a physical, mental, intellectual or emotional); 
3. Para (affection or passion); 
4. Dvesha (dislike or disgust); 
5. Abhinivesha (zest for life, the instinctive attachment to the earthly life and carnal pleasures, fear of being cut off from their death). 

These reasons are suffering in the depths of the mind Sadhakas (worshiper, seeker of truth). They are like icebergs of the polar seas, in which visible only the upper part. They must be hard to control and eradicate, otherwise the rest will not. Yogi learns to forget the past and not worry about the future. He lives in an eternal present. 

As the breeze stirs the surface of the lake, distorting the image reflected in it, and citta Vritti violate the peace of mind. Still waters of the lake reflect the beauty around him. When the mind is stopped, it reflects the beauty Ya Yogi stops your mind with constant diligence and release from desire. Eight stages of Yoga teach him how to achieve this. 

While the Shiva Samhita and Hatha Yoga Pradipika referred to the possible timing of success, Patanjali never defines how much time is required that the individual soul has achieved unity with the Divine Universal Soul. He said that the mind makes a serene and calm Abhyasa (incessant and persistent practice) and Vairagya (freedom from desires). Abhyasa he defines as a long sustained effort, carried out with devotion, which creates a strong foundation. 

Coordinating and focusing his body, senses, mind, reason, and I, a man reaches the awards - inner peace - and has the desire to connect his soul with the Creator. The main adventure in life - this is his return to the Creator. 

To achieve the goal, he needs a well-developed and functioning coordinating body, senses, mind, intellect and Y. If his efforts are not coordinated, a person will fail. In the third chapter (the Valley) the first part of "Katha Upanishad" God of death Yama explains that yoga Nachiketa seeker of truth, telling a parable about a man on a chariot. 

"Know the Atman (I) as the Lord in a chariot, the mind - as the charioteer and the mind - as the reins. Feelings, they say it's horses, and the object of their desires-pasture. Wise men call I am in unity with the senses and mind Bhoktrom (those who enjoys). Unable to discern never would rule over his mind, his feelings like a skittish horse. Able to distinguish always controls his mind, his feelings are like an obedient horse. Unable to discern become careless, even the unclean, and he does not reach the goal, passing from one body to another. ability to discern is attentive and always pure, he reaches the goal and is born again. The man who is able to discern charioteer, ruling the mind reaches the end of the road - the supreme abode of eternal Spirit. 

Tips from Yoga and Ayurveda

How to keep stressed skin from aging and transformed into healthy, radiant skin. 
Do you know the proverb: Up to 40 you wear the face that you got from his parents and from 40, the face that has given your life. It is a truth lies, and which is often a good news for all those who stress-reducing measures, such as yoga have made a part of everyday life. Yoga asanas nourish not only the internal organs, but they also benefit the health and the complexion of the skin. But what can we do about yoga out yet to make it appear healthy aging skin? 

"Our faces and our facial skin are the physical representation of everything we think and do - an unerring mirror of the soul observes," the Indian Pratima Raichur, author of "Real beauty comes from within," (Droemer / Knaur). "If you want to change your appearance, you must first change the thoughts, feelings and habits, from which stem from the stress and aging." 

The good news are that we have a considerable influence on looking like our largest organ in the long run and will work. If we live a life under constant pressure, poor diet and too little sleep, then the stress, these habits contribute to the body, and finally transferred to our skin. On the other hand, our skin will age gracefully and with dignity, if we learn to empathize with the body's needs and adopting a healthy lifestyle. 

According to Ayurveda is a major factor for the deterioration of the skin that we ignore the needs of our individual body type. Each of us is born with a special mind-body constitution, which is dominated by the respective proportions of the three doshas - vata, pitta and kapha characterized - in the body. Each of the three body types, faces, each with different challenges and different ages. The first step in maintaining a healthy skin, then, is to focus on the needs of our specific attention to the constitution. 

Those predominance of vata dosha, Vata qualities are reflected in their psyche and physique. They tend to be lighter stature, with thin, frizzy and dry hair, as well as fine, delicate skin, with a tendency towards dryness, premature wrinkles and dull, lackluster appearance. 

If vata predominant in your body, they should be your Schönheitsambition focus mainly on the moistening and nutrition - both internally and externally. Drink at least eight glasses of water daily. Get used to a diet of warm, sweet and oily food that appears. Fresh fruits and vegetables are also very helpful, but you never eat them cold. 

Pitta types have very sensitive skin. That is why people tend to wrinkle more of this body type, age spots and freckles due to sun exposure. Pittas also react extremely sensitive to chemicals in personal hygiene and cosmetic products, which then can cause rashes or other reactions. 

If you are a pitta type, then you take extra care to use only 100% natural health and cosmetics without preservatives, chemical derivatives, or artificial fragrances. You should also avoid direct sunlight and satisfy your pitta by maintaining regular eating habits, eat lots of fruits and süßsaftige avoid scharfgewürzte food. 

Kapha types tend to slow aging, compared to the other two body types. Their skin is thicker and therefore less vulnerable to wrinkles. The main problem for Kapha people is their low digestive power, which often leads to the accumulation of ama, or toxic waste materials in the body. And this can affect the allocation of nutrients to the skin and create oily, rough, dull skin with enlarged pores. 

Kapha types should be used to insist on a regular facial skin detoxification and this natural cleaning pads and masks. Practice yoga on a regular basis, because this is a great way to detoxify, while acting contrary to the kapha tendency to lethargy. Avoid heavy, cold and sweet food, since that is indigestible, and, as mentioned, tends to leave toxic waste in your body. It would be useful for you, you are held at regular intervals for several days to a detoxification diet. 

Once you have become one of the needs of your individual skin thoughts, it's time to look more closely at the stress in your life - both the stress in your environment as well as the stress in daily life. "Stress is a major cause for the deterioration of the skin and premature aging," says Dr. Rama Mishra, one of the experts in the field of Ayurvedic body care. "He takes effect on the balance of the doshas and to the delicate process of transformation of nutrients to body cells and also to skin cells. 

What do you too, to reduce stress - it will reward you not only with more beauty, but also enhance your health and vitality. " 

Many of the lesions, which we regard as normal expression of aging, such as some wrinkles, brown spots, or pigment changes caused by stress factors of the environment, and therefore are actually preventable. Air pollution, sunlight, alcohol, cigarette smoke (also known as passive smoking) and chemicals in cosmetics such as in the water all attack the skin. 

While the steps to avoid these negative influences are obviously relatively easy to perform, which can deal with the daily stress to be something more complicated. If the body is under stress, it produces a number of stress hormones - a rational response to short-term stress situations, but harmful if it lasts longer. Hormonal changes can cause a number of specific skin problems such as hair loss, acne, thinning of the skin, itching, excessive sweating, premature wrinkles and skin diseases such as psoriasis, hives, and shingles. 

"The language of hormones," says Raichur, "the skin and the immune system provided exactly what we think and feel in every moment, and they reflect our thoughts reflected by their corresponding functions." 

Prolonged stress is visible in several long-term changes in the skin and hair. The body is vital nutrients from the skin to organs like heart, brain and lung umdirigieren; a process that gradually the skin that lacks nutrition, they actually needed. 

Extended periods of stress also consider slowing down the metabolic processes affected, and the renewal of skin cells, which makes the skin appear dull and gray. Stress causes them upset the fluid balance in the body and leaves the skin relaxed and clean out. In addition, a longer-term stress response increases the production of free radicals, which in turn hamper vital cell structures and functions of the skin and damage. 

Such damage by free radicals are manifested not only in our appearance, structure, they also increase the risk of a gradual deterioration of body functions and, thus preparing the ground for a number of chronic diseases, from heart disease to cancer, the auto-immune deficiency and arthritis. 

One of the biggest promise is that you can give yourself the benefit of stress reduction, that you perform your yoga exercises regularly. Yoga postures induce deep relaxation and help you avoid fatigue and tension. Deep breathing normalizes blood pressure and freed from those tensions, which are for head and back pain, insomnia and stomach pains responsible. 

Meditation gives you an extra bonus skin care. For deep relaxation, which occurs often during meditation, supports the balancing of several sub-doshas of Vata, which are participants in the bloodstream. The skin of longtime meditators often develops a special glow and shine. 

The key question for you is how the way you find appropriate meditation and how to perform this then ever! A good teacher can make a big difference, as he answers your questions and help in overcoming your initial difficulties. 

Put thus diminish for a personal body and skin care program found that matches your Ayurvedic constitution; do this, the effect of environmental factors on your skin - and you will enjoy an exterior blasting, which is a reflection of your inner balance and your overall well-being

Yoga-Tips for the Mind

Through meditation you can feel complete and full of joy. But often it happens that for a reason or another, our mind opposes resistance because the last thing we want is to stop. According to the Yoga tradition, the mind is active by definition. His task, which implements even during sleep, is the continuous evaluation of situations, in the defense of its security and the pursuit of pleasure.

Meditation is the state where the mind abandons the quest for joy hidden behind each time. The objectives of the mind and purpose of meditation are so antithetical. Do not be surprised, then, to discover that the attempt to pacify the mind and cause distraction irrequiettezza. What to do then? There are several ways, each of which leads to different levels of awareness.

Abandoned to the pleasure

First, there is the meditative state that arises spontaneously whenever we are engaged in something that we like. In this case it is the activity that calms the mind without effort, assimilating the present moment and opening it to increased awareness of life.

Make silence inside yourself

Ce'è then intentional meditation, which is expected to remain seated (or paths) in silence to calm the mind and detach from its normal activities. To reach this state is necessary to focus on an object, a sound (a mantra), its breath, or "observed" thoughts without getting involved.

The third way

Another technique suggests the Tantra, which offers some important alternatives to the meditative practices more common. Instead of calming the mind or detachment, the calling to do what she likes most: moving. The focus then follows a specific path until the mind is not calm spontaneously.

Show your breath

Finally there is the pranashuddhi, meditative version of pranayama, which is to mentally breathe will rotate through the nostrils. Instead of physically closing one nostril at a time, it displays the respirocome a stream that flows first attrevsro one nostril and then the other, which has as its point of arrival on the third eye, the part of the brain associated with the intuitive wisdom and spiritual vision. The Rishi (ancient seers) discovered that when the flow is balanced, the two parts of the brain are in harmony and calm the mind.

You can use this method, extremely simple and accessible at all times, both as a full practice or as preparation for meditation.

YOGA - The Power Of Sound

When we hear music, we tune to our radio station preterit. According to Swami, meditation mantic works the same way: when we feel the need to connect with our ill Io deeper, we must not help but repeat a mantra, we tune in on that frequency so that the interior is always available. 

The mantra in fact acting like a tuning fork, using sound to create a physical sensation that vibrates in the body and mind 


OM, the universal spirit 

Many spiritual traditions regard the sound as the first form of creation, the primordial manifestation of the Spirit in matter. The Vedas describe the syllable OM as the first sound, the sound elementary, which creates and contains the full range of sounds and the Spirit is infinite universal. 

Like the other mantra, it originated from exploration of the interior that the ancient sages, achieved a state of deep meditation, could hear sounds in almost imperceptible, then codified in Sanskrit. In an attempt then to reach the union with the divine and the liberation from suffering, the wise men developed a series of sounds that blend in inwardly, directions on the inner and soothe the mind. 


How to choose the right one 

The ideal mantra is composed of a few words or syllables, so you can easily repeat. In meditation, the meaning of the mantra is not essential: what counts is the regular repetition of the sound. It need not be confined only to Sanskrit 

You can also use words like "Amen", "Shalom," "Peace" or any other word that we have a special meaning. Just choose an expression invigorating, a word can inspire and awaken the heart. Be avoided, however, all those words that stimulate the mind and the mind wave. 


Gives the 

Although meditation is a matter of mental concentration, it is difficult to check if the body is in an awkward position or the breath is irregular. Before you start well and then perform an asana or practice of pranayama can correct breathing patterns.


Systematically you have to do 

Sit on a comfortable chair or on the floor, supporting your posture with a blanket or a pillow, so that the back straight to take a firm, stable and relaxed. Close your eyes and do some slow, deep breaths, slowly repeat a mantra on a regular basis, focusing as much as possible on its sound. Reptile in tune with the rhythm of your respire. Dupo have played a dozen times; repeat the mantra silently chosen only by moving the lips. After another 10 repetitions, recital inwardly without even moving her lips. 

And 'normal way to do that in the mind of thoughts, but tries to remove them and return each time attention to the mantra, experiencing as much as possible the inner sound and its power. 


Recasting your life through mantra 

To exit the meditative state, ask some deep and respire remains seated in silence looking at the sensations you feel. You can feel calm and focused, or filled with feelings and thoughts that creed now buried in your subconscious and even that may seem unpleasant. 

Regardless of your immediate reaction, know that the regular practice brings huge benefits: allow you to live the present moment with greater intensity bringing you to make informed choices rather than be trapped in the usual reactions. 

Beyond the flurry of thoughts, you will discover a vast silence regenerating; a light source can bring to the surface the roots of suffering and a source of wisdom that can transform it from within your life.

The posting of meaning

In a culture devoted to the pleasures of the senses, it can be difficult, but rewarding at the same time, practice pratyahara, ie the detachment of the senses. Pratyahara in Sanskrit means, "shoot" and is the fifth of eight stages of the classical system of Patanjali. In practice, this technique shows a detachment from the world around them, directing your awareness, usually directed outwards, inwards towards the self. 

Following this effort, the five senses stand apart from the real world. This new state can avoid the distractions of the environment, to focus awareness dispersed and otherwise prepare the sixth and seventh stage of the classic practice: dharana (concentration) and dhyana (meditation). Vyas, the first commentator of Patanjali, with a metaphor, brings our senses to a swarm of bees, making a parallel between our awareness and summit queen: "As the bees follow the flight of the queen, stopping when it stops, so directions also interrupt their activity when the mind rests. 

The scale of 

A practical technique for achieving the pratyahara is documented in the "Yoga Yajnavalkya Gita (" Song of Yajnavalkya yoga "), an educational dialogue between the sage Yajnavalkya and his wife Gargi. The technique of Yajnavalkya, called vayu pratyahara ( "posting of the wind") or prana pratyahara ( "posting of the strength of life"), is to focus your awareness and your breath in a sequence of 18 vital points (marma) of the body. 

The 18 of Yajnavalkya marma (the Ayurvedic tradition indicates 107) are: toes, ankles, the central part of the calf, "the roots of the calves, knees, the middle part of the thighs, perineum," the center of the body, reproductive organs, navel, center of heart, base of the throat, root of tongue, root of nose, eyes, point between the eyebrows, forehead and apex of the head. Yajnavalkya advised to follow the sequence dall'apice head to toes, but many prefer to do the opposite, climbing from bottom to top. 

You can use the "posting of the wind" as a preparation for pranayama or pranayama practice in itself. Marma I can also be used for therapeutic purposes, since each point is in line energy with a particular body organ or apparatus (nervous, circulatory, etc.).. In this way, the practice becomes a kind of "massage marma" with beneficial effects in the area of the body concerned.

Ayurveda: spring balance

Spring - it is warm, the sun, love and renewal! Fine, but there is the other side of the coin: variable weather, when the rain, the sun, the wind, a hot cast, in the cold. In addition, consequently, there is a deficiency disease, drowsiness, runny nose, pain in the revolution and sulk. In addition - alas - recruited extra kilos over the winter. 

Ayurveda, an ancient Indian science of life, explains the spring ailments imbalance dos three - the basic physical energies that govern life. Spring balance these dos - wool, Pita and kopi - actively changing. Notorious revolution in the abdomen - this is the result of unbalancing wool and Pita. In addition, when it is warm, kappa goes out of balance - just like the banks of the river: it cold and all sorts of allergic reactions. 

Naturally, in the arsenal of Ayurveda, there are many ways to combat the malaise spring. Following the basic ayurvedic principles, you quietly and painlessly survive off-season and come into the summer with proudly raised head. However, remember: it is necessary to act on three fronts - food, lifestyle, and, finally, individually selected procedures that are qualified. 

To get started, talk about the spring diet. In this transitional period, we need an easy, simple and fresh food - it will help the body relax and adjust to new conditions. To restore balance, eat cooling food, when it is warm and warm when cold. 

Since kappa symbolizes water and land, and our challenge - it «calm», preference is given to vegetables and fruits, which contain less starch and less water. «At least tomatoes and eggplant, potatoes and bananas - said the doctor Noushad Ali Atcham Para ban, advises in the studio« Lotus »in Parikh. - Avoid fatty, sweet and sour. A perfect taste of spring - a sharp, bitter and astringent ». 

Cook meat and poultry is better on the open fire, and fish and seafood menu in the spring of Ayurveda to be a little bit - they were out of the water element. Limit the diet of wheat, as a side dish, choose green vegetables and rice. Try Indian peas Mango-made - this is an excellent product for the spring. In addition, of course, very good fresh salad with lots of greenery, with the addition of onions and garlic. 

In the rainy spring day is useful to drink ginger tea: a little rub ginger root, put in a cup, fill the boiling water, let stand for about five minutes and add a teaspoon of honey. This drink cheerful and leave no chance of cold and allergies. Actually, according to Ayurveda, the spring is not too much to drink. In any case, what you drink, do not be sweet, too hot or too cold. Ideal - warm green tea, astringent and bitter. 

This is approximately the spring menu. And the right mode, purify the body and preparing the body for the beach season we'll talk next time