32 Unusual ways you know yoga is working

Being into yoga is like being into alchemy, turning mud into gold, or ourselves into kind beings.

The whole purification into being good, nice, balanced, efficient is the way to peace and the way to becoming enlightened. Unless we are fully clean, in word, action, thought, we cannot remove the veil that keeps us from seeing the light shining inside.  

All that purification has a few perks that come with it, here are a few, actually more than 32 I came up with and that tell you that, yes, yoga is working:
  1. Someone cuts you off in traffic and you blow them kisses through your rear view mirror (or wave)
  2. Someone gives you a bad comment and you reply focusing on how good they write
  3. You notice that yoga is more about your daily constant attitude than what happens on the mat
  4. You get to talk a lot about tibias and psoas, and you enjoy it
  5. Your plane gets cancelled and you flow with it, find another flight, no problem
  6. You lose an important pass for something, pray to Ganesh and it appears
  7. You suddnely realize you have been chanting a mantra in your head instead of thinking
  8. You crave mediation
  9. You floss a lot more often than you did last year
  10. You have a neti pot and use it
  11. You are curious about enemas and colonics
  12. You heard about this place where you can do fasts, or have done one, and you realize you are eating less and better food even without the fast
  13. Sweat is part of the day
  14. you refer to pain as the "good pain"
  15. You are a lot kinder
  16. You keep it real, very real
  17. You are honest with yourself about what you want
  18. You either are in a committed loving relationship or ready for one
  19. You realize that the anger stops with you and just cause someone is angry does not mean you will propagate it
  20. Your vocabulary is clean
  21. You move with elegance
  22. People like being around you, they like your energy
  23. You have had a pranayama experiene that gave you glimpse
  24. You realize is not about the money, but enjoy money too and respect its energy
  25. You are a lot more efficient and give away what you don't need
  26. You are wondering about India, or have been there already or are planning to go
  27. You know who Vishnu (the preserver), Ganesh (remover of obstacles), Brahma (God of all creation) and Shiva (destruction and transformation) are, and you know about a bunch of others too
  28. You realize that everything is sacred
  29. You begin to notice that the other is just you in different form
  30. You are happy
  31. The more you connect with spirit as you understand it the more abundance there is in your life
  32. You do not even feel the need to ask how do you know that yoga is working
I have a few more...
  1. You are grateful for everything
  2. You do not give unsolicited advise
  3. You remain detached
  4. You intend and let go, then things happen according to the laws of karma and you let it be
  5. You give things away, and feel lighter
  6. Good things sort of "happen" to you
  7. Things flow
Do you have others to share?


13 comments:

  1. Nice post Claudia. I can vouch for a few :)

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  2. Thank you Wineye and Lilasvb :-)

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  3. This is a stellar post, encouragement and possibility at its best.

    The second paragraph took my breath away! "Unless we are fully clean, in word, action, thought, we cannot remove the veil that keeps us from seeing the light shining inside." I want to see the light shining inside of me.

    Thank you for sharing how Yoga has changed your life.

    Blessings.

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  4. Excellent, Claudia! Here are a couple more:

    -> You visit the chiropractor less than before (or not at all anymore)

    -> You understand what a healthy digestive system feels like

    -> You feel compelled to share yoga with others

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  5. Hmm.. some of these I've already got; others I still need to work on (ie. do more yoga).

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  6. @Wild Magnolia, yes I want to see it too!!! :-)

    @Mike, I like your other ones did not even think of the chripractor, cool! and you feel compelled to share, totally!, digestive system... yes, I find I am a lot more aware, and I am sure it is a common thread, thank you!

    Yyogini... do more yoga... yes, especially the parts where it is not just the asana, that is what needs work in my case...

    Tony, what's with 32, I was wondering if someone would notice that one in particular, it refers to what Sharath told us in conference last Sunday, no matter whata the question he would just say "do yoga", maybe he is ah the point where he does not ask anymore questions he just, does yoga....

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  7. @Tony by the way, will add your blog to the blogroll to keep in touch

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  8. So much truth in those words, thank you for sharing.

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  9. @Claudia,

    I meant what's with 32 as a number? 32 ways yoga is working, 32 Unusual definitions of what yoga is???? Why 32? Is it special like 108?

    Thanks for the add :)

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  10. Tony, ohhhhh, I seeee, sorry! Well, one day I started writing on the "unusual ways to love ourselves", I went on and on, and the list grew and grew, but it stopped at 32, I am not sure why, it just did... so then I just kind of kept making 32 unusual this and that, I feel like the 32 chose me...

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