Tag: non-attachment

Easing into Virabhadrasana I (Warrior I Pose)

The Warrior poses in yoga tradition represent the qualities necessary for all spiritual journeyers. Every spiritual tradition understands that life’s journey requires each of us to become our own hero. In other words, we save ourselves and others when we…

Helen Maupin

Detachment is Not Indifference

Although most western-culture dictionaries treat detachment and indifference as synonyms, they have a crucial difference.  Their common element — non-reaction — is paralleled by indifference’s additional qualities — coldness, passionlessness, lack of feeling/sympathy.   I thought my friend Chris said it…

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Practice + Non-attachment = Navigation Skills for Being Human

Both practice and non-attachment (nonreaction) are required to still the mind.  Yoga Sutra 1.12 For millennia, the yoga sutras have provided its practitioners with aphorisms or truths meant to increase understanding and provide direction with regard to the mystery of…

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Clear Seeing Unveils Confidence

by photostock freedigitalimage.net If you have followed my blog conversations over the past two weeks, their content has ranged from self-sabotage to self-mastery via real-time dialogue between myself and “Sandy”.  This continued instalment depicts the shift into clear seeing and…

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