Explore our limits

At last Saturday's yoga class, I have finaly know what my teacher have been asking us to do when she told us to explore our limits. One of her style is to put strength into our hands and legs which will support the difficult pose that we will need to execute if we want to attain a higher physical well being

This basic steps is like learning martial art.  We need to  sttrengthen our foundations before we practice the movements.  If we were to practice the steps before having a strong foundation, it will be like a tall building withourt a a strong foundation, it will fall by its own weight.  So, to give us strong hands and legs, my teacher will put us through very tedious stunts. We will need to hold hte stunt for 15 to 20 counts and we can experience the enormous pain that starts shooting up our arms and legs. It is a real test of ou rmind  and our tolerance level.

When we experience pain, our mind will make us focus on the pain and it is self defeating because the pain will overcome us and we will give up so, in these  ipainful moments, my teacher will ask us   to continue breathing, loosen our heart , be aware of the movement and push our selves to our limits. It  is so confusing , when we are in pain, yet we need to seek more pain by exploring our limits ?  it is a silly advise , isn't it ?  But, there is a lot of logic in these advise. By exploring our limits, we will take our mind of the pain and our focus is to find the space to breath and push our joints a little more or bear the pain a little  longer, etc.  All these tiny attempts will move us a little further towards perfection.

To attain greater flexibiliity, balance , strength and power in our body, it cannot be achieve in a day.  All short cut programmes in market is only full of marketing and eventually, it will return you to your old self. A little improvement a day will be painfully slow but it will strengthen you indefinitely in all parts of your  body including your control over your mind.  Like I have just say,  we have to learn to be aware and focus . So, these process will involved controlling your mind to move our body to search for our limits.

I have realised that Yoga exercise is not only to give you a fantastic body but also a power mind  and with the body and mind connections, you will  complete control over yourself  and have eternal happiness.

Namaste.