We occupy one of the most complex and marvelous machine, the human body. The human body mainly purpose to keep “alive” the energy that occupies this body in order for You, the “ I ” in “I am..”, to live this human experience.

You can take the heart of your body, the “temple” that you occupy, and the heart will still beat for a short amount of time.

Most of the muscles, contracts, using electrical impulses from the brain, while the heart itself, is not regulated by the brain, but it actually beats by itself. If you take the brain out, the muscles will not contract by themselves, but the heart will.

The only function of the brain is to tell the heart how fast it should beat. The cells inside the heart will continue firing for an extended period of time, so the heart keeps beating by itself. As long as the heart has ATP to provide energy and oxygen, it can beat with no connection to the brain. Death is defined when the heart stops.

“What is happening when a heart is replaced?” – This is the core of your energy.

Interesting fact: A turtle heartbeat is continuing beating after being removed, for several hours.

 

Heart facts :

–The heart begins to form in the fetus before the brain

-Average heart beat is 110.000 times a day, almost 3.5 billion times in a lifetime.

-It produces enough power in 1 h to lift 900 kg almost 1 m above the ground. In 1 h 15 min it can lift a small car.

-The source of the heartbeat is in the heart, not in the brain, after a transplant they cannot reconnect the heart and the brain, the heart beats on its own.

-The electrical impulses of the heart is 40-60 times stronger than the brain, stronger than any other electrical impulses in the body and it can be measured 1 m away from the body.

-The heart sends more information to the brain, than vice versa. There for, first is the heart, and after the brain.

-The circulatory system of the heart is more than 95.000 km. The distance around the world is 40 000 km, so 2 times more, just putting all veins ,arteries together, head to head.

-If you put different people’s heart cells or even animals together in a petri dish (like a small shallow dish of thing glass or plastic) they will all beat in UNISON, while the brain cells will not communicate and just die together.

(We are all part of the same source, we are fundamentally all the same, the same energy is flowing trough us, animals, plants, and every living thing…)

 

(That is why sometimes when you are stressed just staying in the presence of someone will calm you down…)

-The electricity generated by the heart can be detected and measured in the brain patterns of another person nearby.

-The heart magnetic field is 5000 more powerful than the brain and can help you access more of your brain.

So, from now on, it can be clear to you why you cannot control the heart using the brain, no matter how much you try, the heart is always stronger.

Listen to your heart!

 

They say that on 2.5 square cm of skin you have more than 600 pain sensors, 1300 nerve cells, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors, 75 pressure sensor, 100 sweat gland, 3 million cells, 2.7 m of blood vessels, 3.6 m of nerve fibers.

The human body is a sensible body, but it seems like trough time it become more insensible, stiffer, bones are fusing together, mentalities are thinking in a box, minds take control over people and we lose awareness of everything we do in life.

We become machines, programmed to think, feel, work and chose on command. Society is so well constructed, for the vast majority, that nobody questions, nobody thinks he’s a modern slave, nobody is even aware of the difference between their own choices or the choices someone arranged in your mind unconsciously.

Yoga is trying to reverse this process, making you take control over the mind, the body and all your actions. Yoga is questioning even the root of your existence. Everything you do becomes a question.

 

We are all in pursuit of happiness, without knowing what happiness is.

 

We think happiness is something material, tangible that can only be acquired by material things, a house, a job, a lover, new car, new everything. We are all sick of what was old, and in pursuit of what is new, without knowing ever the real value of that “old” thing.

We move through life like intellectuals, so full of ourselves, just because we have a diploma telling us we are PHD students, or Managers, CEO, or other kind of titles society give to someone just to fell less frustrated by his own achievements. So we can go and brag to everyone how smart we are. :))

But just imagine, that when you achieve something, you cannot say that to anyone! So what are the real value of the things that you do, to you personal, not to impress others, what is really fulfilling and make you happy?  Now … what are the things that are really valuable in your life. 

The truth is we don’t know nothing, we don’t know the most basic of things, we don’t know our own body, we don’t even know how to breathe, but we expect to be happy and well.

Experiencing even the most basic of postures in yoga, the physical aspect of it, will make you more sensible to life, to breathe, more aware of your body, your skin, the way you move. You start connecting back  to your body.

Happiness for me, is experiencing that 2.5 cm of your skin to its full extent.
Sitting on your back breathing freely, moving the toes and fingers, head, in the same time, having your attention on all the sensation the body is giving you in that moment that is bliss, and the more you feel the more excited you get. It’s like having a massage, or someone touching every inch of your body in the same time.

The same effect, some drugs can induce artificially into your body, just making you more sensible, exciting every cell of your body to a simple sound, or movement, or emotion, bringing your attention to the present.

After a class, when the body is “happy and well“, and you aligned yourself with the cosmic system, the moment when “you, the mind and the body” had the same purpose, working together, you’ll feel the whole body energized, a percentage of your billions and billions of cells, vibrating, in a ticklish sensation, like telling you in their own language “thank you”.

Happiness comes In moments and you are creating each and every single one of this moments, by just paying attention to the present and improving your own being, you are responsible for everything you are experiencing.

The world outside your body is just an image of what you are feeling inside. Changing the outer world starts by changing the inner one, working on your perception, growing your consciousness.  

                               “They put us to ground without knowing we are trees”

Life somehow resemblance a lot with the life of a tree. At first you are just a seed and you just suck all the nutrition everything the earth provides so you grow from this little speck into a big tree. The same happens to us, and we rely on parents, kindness of nature, humanity, to grow until we can provide for ourselves. But as the tree, we are always in need of what the earth provides, all our flesh and existence here is not due to our parents, but to earth, nature and all the food we put in our body, all that matter, that we eventually transform it into human body.

You put an apple into your body, and the body acts as an alchemist transforms it into cells, tissue, organs, blood whatever is necessary.

But it comes a time, when you should give something back to nature, a tree creates oxygen, fruits, for animals, humans, and it is like he has a purpose. And everything has a purpose here on earth. We are the only aliens here, still searching for one, some of us will never find it, because we go against the heart and we surrender to the ego,to the mind, to whatever society wants us to be. And it s nothing wrong with that, it is just that society is very unbalanced, it still has a lot to understand.

My teacher used to say “Understanding is One, Misunderstanding is Many”

There was a video these days on the internet, saying that the world would be such a better place without humans, all we do here is to interfere with nature, we destroy, we think we know better, we kill, we are in this moment the disease of the planet. But the planet as the sun doesn’t create separation, they give their love and energy to everyone, their love is unconditional. Either you are a thief, a teacher, or just a normal person, the sun shines the same for everyone.

But we try to learn, to adjust, to wake up…

Until the time will come when we learn from “good” positive actions, that doesn’t cause us any pain or discomfort, we will experience a lot of the opposite. It seems like this is the way for us to learn, by suffering, these are the best lessons that life give us, whenever we are uncomfortable.

When I see all the drama and “bad” things that are happening in this world, all the sufferance and ignorance, greed and wars, all the disabled people and sick people, I realize, that all of this is needed.

You need a homeless person to remind you how lucky you are on a winter to have a home, a
sick person to know how we take health for granted, a tsunami to realize how lucky we are each day to have such a stable climate, an old person to see that life is short and you still have to enjoy everything before and do some yoga, so in your 60’ty years of age, you would not need a wheelchair or medicine, or someone to clean after you because your lifestyle consummated your body before your age.

We get so engaged in what we are doing, that we forget to be thankful for what we have and we take everything for granted.

We cannot learn other way, so things will just get worse and worse, until a day will come and you will say “I had enough” and a change is producing inside of you. That is the moment that you have the courage to do and try new things, because what it was before didn’t work.

Some people are more sensible than others, for some of us, the drama already existing is enough, so we change our behavior alter our perception and start building a heaven here on earth.

This is another face of karma to me, some pain for you in order to get back on the track. As a  person will cut some of the tree or plant branches to concentrate the energy on other parts of the tree, probably to produce less fruits, but bigger and more tasty, and with more nutrients, the same karma is making you suffer so you place your energy where is needed.

Karma is not a bad thing, karma for me is the hand of the universe, showing you the way whenever you are lost. Karma is your guru, teacher, your best friend who has the courage to tell you in your face that you are wrong, and ignorant, and your ego needs to shrink.

This is how my teacher will summarize yoga.

What, Why , How? – what is it, why to do it, how to do it…

Three questions that you will need to use them eventually in every single thing you do or try in life. Understanding everything “Less is not enough, more is not possible.”

In some yoga classes you will fell sometimes that some exercises are  not really from the scriptures, that the teacher/instructor is somehow bending the rules, he’s being sometimes to flexible or too harsh.

Well in the conception of my teachers and many gurus, yoga is understanding.

So you are trying to understand how your body works, and try to improve the things you feel or lack in your body.

Lack of exercise and a sedentary life style or improper thinking will bring imbalances to the mind, body and here is where yoga intervenes and is slowly bringing everything back to its balance.

Buddha used to say life is like the strings of a guitar: “If you pull a guitar string too tight, it will snap. If you let it out too loose, it will make no noise. Only medium tensions allow the guitar to work. So too is the path to contentment.”

So we are trying to adjust life in such a way we feel contentment at a regular basis.

 

If you are in a kitchen and you understand how to cook something, sometimes you can bend the rules, and add some personal things, some of your taste into that cooking, is the result a disaster? No, it’s your perception that what you bring to that recipes will improve it.

And this is what we try to bring to the world, by our existence, an improvement.

Every yoga class will be different, even if we all are talking about the same thing. Everyone is trying to trigger something in you, some different muscle, or some different perception about the same thing, and it seems like every time we look from a different angle, it is like things change, but fundamentally it is the same.

 

It is like looking at someone from different angle, it is still the same person the same body, is just that your attention gets fixed on different aspects.

So for example if we want to relief-improve the lower back pain-muscles, in the begging we can start stretching that part of the body, creating space and flexibility for nutrition to come in, for oxygenation, everything what the tissue-cells-molecules-atoms need in order for us provide the necessary condition for our body to heal that area.

And we don’t stop here, just on the gross part, we can add some subtle practices, chanting, breathing, awareness, the healing energy or warmth of our hands to heal that particular area, or meditation, which is such a strange concept to most of us.

Now, the body is an incredible mechanism, we cannot understand even a small percentage of it, but we are trying to use all our knowledge in the best way we can to support the body needs to keep this soul inside so it can manifest itself freely.

 

This is the whole feeling of levitation, so levitation is mostly how you move through life, you feel like you are flying, everything is easy, you are just putting a thought in your mind, and that thought is manifesting itself with the indulged speed of the universe.

We still follow this cosmic, universal law, so since we are matter, we follow the rules of matter on this earth, like the force of gravity. The same laws apply to us.

After we have relief the lower back from pain, we go to the source, what was the source of this pain? And how can I prevent it the next time for happening?

So you go to your posture, to your abdomen, and most of us we lack a lot on this subject, or even deeper, the thought. What was that thought that made me bend like that?  or depleted me from all the energy so I could put all this pressure on the lower back? Am i working myself too much? Is my life style against the health of the body? How can i serve ?

So yoga for me is a science, for which the main purpose is to observe the body, mind and energy implied for this arrangement to work at his best.

Just because you do yoga doesn’t mean you have to stop here, yoga is a 24h practice, is the laboratory that you take with you every day of your existence.

Go and explore the beauty of this world, go paint, do Pilates, run, do cycling, enjoy yourself in every activity but do it with awareness, be  less harmful with yourself and your environment, be honest and strong, show compassion and love, try to build your understanding and be less ignorant each day.

We are doing yoga so we can enjoy life more. So we can move easily trough life. Yoga is just a mean for you to experience yourself to the most of your potential.

Stop comparing yourself with everyone, you are not the same, you had different experiences, different start, the universes never makes a copy.

Everything is the same, fundamentally, but has slight differences, embrace this differences and allow the universe to observe itself through your perception.

And just enjoy this short experience…

Being thankful, showing gratitude, is all that you have to release into this universe…that is the purpose of your existence.

 Plato used to say you should practice death daily.

It’s about you reminding yourself that you are not immortal. Your soul is, but your existence here on earth is limited.

When you imagine yourself dying today, or tomorrow being your last day here on earth, you remind yourself of what is of value to you, what has meaning.

I am saying this to bring one subject into discussion. Sleeping.

We believe that 8-10 h of sleep a day is a necessity. Yes it may have been when we were growing, at a young age. But now sleeping is mostly due because we feel we have nothing beautiful to wake up to. Or there is no other form known to us, of how we can relax.

When we talk about work and we feel “compelled” to wake up early, we do so much effort, alarms, cold water, coffee, whatever will get us on our feet.

But when we have to wake up for ourselves, when we “enjoy” a free day we just go for a 12 h sleep. And for most of the people it is because there is no pleasure greater than this. There is no planed day for which they should get up to do some interesting things.

It is like life it is not worth living.

It is like we are sleeping our life. Sleeping, eating, reproducing, the basic needs of any animal.

“We do so much efforts into creating problems, stress, we create so many thoughts that can bring our energy down. But when it comes to happiness, we just sit and do nothing, like we expect everything just to fall from the sky.”

We where trained to work and dedicate our time and energy for someone else’s dream rather than our own.  

It is very peaceful to sleep, when your brain and thinking process is out of the way, and you forget about your identity, you are just peaceful.

But will you do the same if this where one of your last day on earth? Or would you call everybody to meet, say to them whatever you didn’t got the chance to say, your parents, that you love them and they did a great job, your loves one, how much they mean to you, go and see nature, have healthy food, do some exercise for the body and thanking him that he supported you for all this years, and all the bad choices you made. Showing love and gratitude to everyone. And probably trying out the things you never had the courage, time, resources to do.

The body is happy when you sleep because it seems like you’re not giving him a choice to experience bliss, to jump from a parasympathetic “fight or flight” when the mind is under stress to a sympathetic mode “rest and digest”- grow and heal, when the mind and body is at peace.

For me one of the purposes of you being human, is to be conscious, if not, your experience would have been reduced to one of an animal. But your purpose here on earth is so much greater than this, and you know it, that is why you are not satisfied about your existence.

It’s like being drunk on some kind of products and unconscious, and people telling you that you had fun, or you being aware and having a memory of being blissful. It is scary, and there is no fun of you being unaware, if you where in some kind of other activity that doesn’t involve sleeping.

You feel you are awake now, just because you didn’t experienced other states of being awake. But you have felt the same in other circumstances, for example when you thought your body is at your peak, until you didn’t get to do some physical exercises for at least 30 min.

So what if you can develop the means to go-jump to this state consciously, what if there is a chance that yoga with all its myths about meditation and breathing and other practices, can make your experience being awake and blissful like being asleep and unconscious, or even more, would you take that chance, would you try it?