True Yoga is Simple: 13 Steps to Deepen Your Home Practice by Olga Yumasheva - HTML preview

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modern person. We are overwhelmed with

workload and tons of information coming from

social media. We struggle to make the right

decisions and find some meaning in life. We

want to feel accepted and loved by others. We

try hard to please those around, sacrifice on

our own beliefs, and then wonder why

satisfaction is not coming.

We consume too much sweet, salty, and spicy

food and experience intense mood swings as a

result. All this stress accumulates in our body

and sits there in the form of energy blocks,

which, if not duly released, may cause certain

illnesses.

Bad habits, extreme sports, sex, and other

entertaining activities merely switch our

attention. We forget about our worries and

pains for a little while. But we don’t deal with

the blockages. The energy won’t start running

smoothly through the body unless we take

effort to clean up our system.

The first goal of Shavasana is the so-called

‘energy shower.’ We move our attention from

one part of the body to another part, and

where the attention goes, the energy follows.

This way, scanning through the whole body,