The key to home practice: Desire before Duty

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Committing home practice is such a transformational step that it is very easy is converted to a target, an item in the tasks list, a get by--get done: in short, a duty.

And apart from the time on your calendar or tasks list can be an effective method for keeping this promise to yourself. But how to maintain the spirit of the practice and not degenerate into goal seek?

Here's what I mean: one morning you set your alarm a bit early-20 or 30 minutes to start-triumphant because you this to yourself promise. and practice, brief though it was, converted your day was filled with moments of sunlight and inspiration.Three weeks later, the alarm goes off again, you find yourself on the same mat with sunlight streaming in, but don't like pushing yourself via the poses that you work, your claims of yesterday, and nobody to flatteringly. what a way to start the day!

What happened to that first morning of lightness and joy in practice?What happened to that blinding insight of the Bhagavad-Gita, something about releasing the fruits of that action, in your heart, but non-attachment to results?

If the "aim" to yourself on your mat every morning, you have "duty" met by arrive.Before you do something, ask yourself a question: "what I really want to?"Maybe it's more sleep. fine, take legs to the wall, or yoga nidra. maybe you're a backbend feeling. Cool, warm up with some gentle heart openers like sphinx and cobra. Or maybe you want a good laugh or cry. beautiful, that is pranayam.

You might even find that when you put it, follow your desire changes, transformations in something that priority on target, and thought.

You are what your deep, driving desire.
If your desire is, so is your will.
If you will, your deed.
If your act is, so is your DESTINY. ~ Upanishads

Tags: yoga, practices, home practice goal setting, Bhagavad Gita

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