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Jess Stearn's personal experiences with yoga, resulting in his discovery of how to remain youthful, optimistic, and productive, are related in novel-like fashion. The author's knowledge of reincarnation and his compelling writing help readers understand how their past lives may be affecting the present.… (meer)
I read this book back in the 70s and still do some of the exercises. I like the way Stearn presents various points of view regarding reincarnation. I think most people who have done yoga for any length of time will agree with Stearn [that these exercises do help a person feel better/younger]. Back in the 70s, yoga was a hippie-dippie thing, but [of course] now it's almost mainstream. ( )
Jess Stearn was an experienced reporter and man of the world who viewed an invitation to a three-month study session of Hatha Yoga with extreme scepticism. But the experience transformed Stearn into a true believer. This book explains how this change came about and commends yoga as a remedy for tension, weight control, sexuality and various other conditions.
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
This is the story not only of my experience with Yoga, but of Yoga's experience with me.
"In three months," Marcia said, "you'll be a new person. I guarantee it."
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
As I looked about me, I noted with surprise that many people I knew had been using Yoga to good effect, though each, curiously, seemed to have a rather different idea of what it was for.
"It isn't so much the physical side of Yoga that I'm interested in," he said. "There's a mental aspect far more important."
"Thinking with a disturbed mind is no thinking at all. Don't act first and regret later. Don't get upset or concerned by actions of others, by criticism or flattery. Practice the detachment that comes with Yoga. When the mind is calm and quiet, truth enters unsought."
"You will resist the exercises in the beginning," Marcia warned, "and will think of a dozen reasons for dropping out, just as the person first going to an analyst tries to rationalize quitting because of cost and time."
"The thought will pass through your mind, as you search around for reasons to give up on the exercises, that you are devoting too much time to your body. As we grow older we all spend more time on our bodies, and it's better to spend this time on the exercise mat than in doctors' offices and hospitals."
"Breathing, as I told you, is of the utmost importance. You are to consider oxygen more important than food. The body can survive without food for thirty days, without oxygen for hardly four minutes."
"Never be impatient, never discouraged, always concentrate, always realize that whatever you do is more than you did a week ago, a month ago, or even yesterday. It is progress we are concerned with."
"You'll get to know about yourself increasingly as we go along, not only physically, but mentally and spiritually," Marcia said. "The most rewarding thing about Yoga, I sometimes think, is what it reveals of us to ourselves."
Attitudes of body often affect attitudes of mind.
Actually, as I remembered my grandmother once saying, most of living was in the mind. It was what we thought of things—not what they were intrinsically—that determined our state of mind, our happiness or sadness, our feeling of success or failure. That was what was meant by free will: our response to an event, rather than control of the event itself.
As the Bhagavad-Gita had said, "A man must raise himself by his own efforts, and must not allow himself to be dragged down. He alone is his own friend, and he alone is his own enemy."
Emotional frustration, of course, has a lot to do with overeating, that and the unadulterated monotony of dull, unimaginative living.
Stretching exercises are particularly helpful in relieving nervous tension, since all stretching is inherently tranquilizing.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
For the first time in my life I felt myself in harmony with the universe around me. It was a good feeling.
Jess Stearn's personal experiences with yoga, resulting in his discovery of how to remain youthful, optimistic, and productive, are related in novel-like fashion. The author's knowledge of reincarnation and his compelling writing help readers understand how their past lives may be affecting the present.
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