Unravel The Thread: Living The Yoga Sutra Today

The natural state of individual awareness This is the state of harmonious integration between individual awareness and the world of experience. Your investment in your opinions creates an obstacle to opening your heart and mind. Are you neutral and inclusive or partial and limiting?   Which of these two attitudes is more conducive to enhancing your aliveness? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/  

Are your ways of being neutralized? What is the nature of the  relationship between your awareness and the world of experiences? How are your assumptions influencing what you perceive? What is the impact of your thoughts on your body and emotions? Can your physical manifestation be a vehicle for conscious awareness to experience the world? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/

If it could, it would create an endless succession of observations that would confuse memory Can there be more than one instance of your individual awareness?  Can you feel the sensations in your two hands simultaneously? Can you observe yourself as you attend to the sensations in your hands? What happens when one part of you attend to an external process and another aspect of your awareness tries to attend to a different process, like plans, expectations or memories?   https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-l

You either focus on experiences or on the universal awareness. What is your intention when you direct your awareness to the world of experience?   What happens?   Do you notice a difference when you focus on aliveness itself?  What happens when you try to focus on both experience and pure aliveness?  https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/

Yoga Sutra 4.19 Individual consciousness is neither independent nor autonomous. Individual consciousness can be a translucent window between Consciousness and the world All yoga practices remove obstacles to experiencing the world with absolute clarity. Awareness is accessible only in the present moment. To what extent are your ways of being (including your activities, tendencies, beliefs, and personal history) illuminating or obscuring the connection between vitality and the world of experience? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/

Ways of being are known by Consciousness Experiences make it easy to recognize the fundamental difference between unchanging consciousness and the changing world. The vitality in all of life does not change, but our relationship with that vitality does. Experiences are not intrinsically good or bad. Do you have ways of regulating your connection to your own vitality? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/

Your experiences are influenced by your level of awareness To what exten are you present in your daily activities? Which ways of being interfere with your perception and participation in your life? Is what you know, true knowledge, the result of your direct experience? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208

Objects in the world are not the product of your imagination What is your attitude towards the world?   What is it that makes it possible for you to perceive anything?   What is the relationship between your awareness and the world that can be perceived?  What is the purpose of everything that exists?   What is your purpose as a person in the world?  https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208

An object does not depend of being perceived in order to exist How do you relate to the objects around you? How do your ways of being influence your perception?   Are there some aspects of your life that remain constant?   Are there some aspects of you that remain constant?  Are your thoughts, intentions, actions, and interactions charged by your conscious and deliberate presence? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765

In spite of undergoing many changes, each object is unique and real. Do you notice changes in your body, breath, thoughts, emotions and memories? Is there anything underneath all of those changes? Is there continuity in you? Are you unique? What makes you aware of your uniqueness and continuity? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202 Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765

How do the primordial tendencies in nature influence your inner world, intentions, actions and interactions? Are you at the mercy of inertia, agitation or harmony? How do you interact with your tendencies? What motivates your choices? Do your activities influence your own levels of energy?   Are you able to regulate your own energy levels ?   https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765

There are latent, active and potential impressions. What impressions lead you to harmony with your natural state?  What impressions foster misidentification with temporary phenomena?  To what extent are you aware of the impressions left by your past experiences? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765  

The impressions disappear when afflictions, ways of being and tendencies are removed. Are you aware of your afflictions (kleshas)? Which of your ways of being perpetuate the impressions already present? Are the eight limbs of yoga useful in removing causes, effects, support and objects that keep your impressions active? How are you creating effortless peaceful impressions (3.10) through your practice and life? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq

Are your desires toward enjoyment or toward liberation? What impressions do they leave? Desire powers the impressions and it creates a cycle that lasts for as long as there is desire. What desires are prevalent in you?   To what extent are those desires perpetuating some of your existing tendencies and inclinations?   Can you modulate your desire?   Is your desire a way to deepen your identification with temporary phenomena? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60

Are you aware of the impressiones accumulated in you and of their effects? Are your ways of being related to your beliefs and opinions? Might it be possible that this collection of impressions, when unresolved, remains in your individual space of awareness offering you ways to overcome your identification with these experiences? Would it be possible for the impressions of previous actions to be stored in our organs through some mechanism that we do not understand yet? Is it possible then that your unique configuration of memories, impressions and tendencies continues from one life to the next? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez /book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/

Subconscious impressions manifest under appropriate conditions.  Samskaras influence personality and tendencies. Are your intentions and actions generating new impressions? Are some of your actions and interactions the result of unconscious impressions? To what extent is your personality a form of conditioning? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765  

Those who are not immersed in samadhi generate three types of karma. Yogis who have achieved integration, by living beyond attachment to results, do not accumulate karma. For others, karma is negative, positive and mixed. Can you notice how your current situation may have been influenced by your previous intentions and actions? Are you aware of past impressions that are still active in you? Do your actions reflect a growing balance within you? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/2

Free from the ways of being, conscious and balanced actions Meditation is sustainable and makes it easy to act without leaving subconscious impressions that generate an endless chain of reactions and afflictions. Are you freer of expectations and attachments to the results of your actions? How do you know if your actions are the result of your deep emotional balance? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/113992875 5 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765  

Is there a single sense of self beneath all your experiences? What is at the core of all your experiences? Could there also be only one all encompassing awareness underlying all of existence? What is the nucleus of your being? https://simple-yoga.org This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765

What makes you aware of your own existence? Is it possible to generate new body-minds? What do you identify with? Is your sense of self (asmita) the meeting point between existence and awareness? What do you find when your internal activity and identifications cease?   https://simple-yoga.org/ This is an excerpt from the book Unravel the Thread available at:  Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737648202/ Alibris https://www.alibris.com/Unravel-the-Thread-Applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life-Rub-n-V%C3%9Fsquez/book/50532904?matches=5 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unravel-the-thread-rub-n-v-squez/1139928755 Indiebound https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781737648208 Thriftbooks https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/unravel-the-thread-applying-the-ancient-wisdom-of-yoga-to-live-a-happy-life_rubn-vsquez/29003752/#edition=60132974&idiq=52585765