YOGA AND RELATIONSHIPS
We continue on yoga and relationships, it be marriage or just partners… One participant testified that the Art of Living Happiness course had saved their marriage, which was on the verge of a divorce. During the course, upon doing the different processes, the participant realized their contribution to the unpleasant state of their marriage. That introspection was a revelation, coming from inside. A few months later they did the course together with the spouse. The spouse kept on wondering why it had taken them so long to do the course. They felt great and their marriage got saved. This is just but one example to show that yoga does offer a practical solution to relationships, where each person goes inward to empty their own invisible bag that make our lives miserable. The Happiness course teaches special breathing techniques/ pranayama, a bit of yoga stretches and a bit of meditation. It is a beautiful combination that causes you to release tension, the heaviness we carry from the past, bitterness, anger, unforgiveness and any other unpleasant emotion you can think of. The breath and emotions are linked. The more we learn to work with the breath, the better control we have of our emotions. When other people give their views about your relationship, especially if the finger points towards you, the tendency is to defend oneself and only see the problem to be from the other person or the environment. Yoga is very personal, the only person it addresses is you. It has that ability to bring out the truth from inside. No one can argue with inner truth. It causes you to pause as you realize that the problem is not just from outside, it is largely from within. Wouldn’t it be a better and stable world particularly for our children, to be in a space where we use the available natural tools like yoga, which give you a mirror to look within and find the well of happiness and contentment that we’ve been Blessed with, and not finding blame? As we visit the court-houses we find divorce cases are frequent. Involved parties may consider wholistic yoga, to individually get to the root of their differences and possibly restore their marriages. In 2019 Art of Living will conduct yoga retreats / workshops for couples who are willing to enrich or revive their relationships. More next week