This week our spiritual Sadhana is Discipline (tapas).  This yogic discipline is not what you normally associate with discipline, a strict restraining of oneself, but rather it is a prayerful (conscious and subconscious) joyful movement of love both in your waking hours and in your sleep.  

 

You already are a powerful creator. In this magnetic universe, through the Law of Attraction, everything that “IS” is a  result of your conscious or subconscious creation. A nice analogy that differentiates the conscious and the subconscious is the likening of the conscious mind to a dim flashlight and the subconscious mind to the all encompassing light of the Sun.  True manifestation is the ability to utilize both the conscious and the subconscious harmoniously. While most people create by default, yogis have a different path.  An important part of the yogic path is utilization of prayer and discipline (tapas) to engage the creative power of both the conscious and subconscious. 

 

Prayer in yogic terms is not a petitioning of God, but rather a conscious movement of energy towards Love (present moment awareness without a story or judgement–complete presence).  For the yogi, life is a moving meditation and a body prayer.  Every breath is sacred.  On the yoga mat, and in everyday life, Love is the ground rooting the yogi to a higher truth. 

 

Conscious intention (prayer) is indeed a powerful creative force, but the Yogi is not limited by the dim light of consciousness, but rather accesses the sunlit realm of the subconscious with purposeful loving intent.  Silencing the “Chitta” (mind chatter) and connecting with the breath, the yogi opens  a channel to the subconscious connecting with the true feeling nature of love. 

 

Sleep is a time when the mind is ripe for the consciousness to be directed with purposeful intent into the subconscious realm of creation.  Because one third of our lives are spent in sleep, and because when we sleep we are directly connected with the subconscious mind with its filtering and creative power, setting a strong intention right before we sleep can literally change the course and direction of our waking hours.  

 

Yogic discipline is the feeling movement of the union of opposing forces (in this case, the conscious and the subconscious) as a means of self realization.  The subconscious only responds to the truth of your feeling nature. In other words, whatever you feel to be true, the subconscious will come into alignment with that feeling as truth. Thus, it is true for you.  This, in turn, magnetically attracts the circumstances of your life that will verify that truth, both in your slumber and in your waking hours.  

 

With this understanding, set a strong intention of peace, love, health, abundance and strength right before you drift into sleep.  Then move through your day with the sacred and conscious intention that your actions, speech, words, thoughts, and more importantly your feelings be rooted in love. 

 

When, and if, you find yourself moving away from your conscious and loving intent (struggle, anger, disappointment, etc..) utilize the breath to bring yourself back to a centered space. Do this over and over again as many times as needed with no judgment and no story.  

 

Decide to move with discipline (tapas) from the prayerful consciousness love, both in your waking hours and in your sleep, and have a powerful week as you create your life with consciousness of Love. 

 

All my love

Namaste

Chrystal Rae