SELF-KNOWLEDGE
The second good thing yoga teaches us is
listening to our bodily needs. Of course, it
doesn’t happen when we blindly follow the
instructions. It only happens when we do
things mindfully, only then we can hear what
we truly need. And the more we listen, the
better we can hear.
Again, it starts on the yoga mat, but gradually
the understanding expands and reaches the
other aspects of our life. We realize which
activities give us pleasure and which make us
exhausted, which people and habits help us to
rise up and find emotional balance, and which
are toxic, pull us down, and make us stressed.
It doesn’t happen immediately. Yet, looking
back, we notice that we invite into our life
more and more of those things that make us
uplifted and that we minimize our engagement
in those things that don’t resonate with our
nature and bring us down.