the thing about thoughts
all of yoga podcast · episode 04
The thing about thoughts:
💭 What are thoughts?
💭 Where are they?
💭 What impact do they have on you day-to-day?
💭 How do they affect your physical and mental health?
If I said ‘a thought is something that you can hear inside your own head’, would you agree?
The word for thought in Sanskrit is Vritti. The thing is that 'vritti' also translates as vortex, or whirlpool. The yogis were so insightful to see that thoughts go round and round and round, and not only that, but they pull us down with them. In to a vortex. Or that there's a whirlpool of thoughts that gain so much energy that they become, in inverted commas 'true'. Like: 'my memory is terrible', 'I'm a rubbish driver', 'I suck at maths.'
In this episode we explore:
what a thought is
how biology isn't exactly working in our favour
how we can take small, practical, implementable steps to overcome thoughts and thought patterns that don't serve us
An incredibly important topic, and potentially, absolutely life-changing.
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• Your brain is going at 100mph?
• You’re exhausted by your own mind?
• You just wish there was an off-switch for your thoughts?
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You’ll learn about your inner tug of war (aka a simple explanation of the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala), and how to use simple techniques to calm this inner battle now, and forever. (Pinky promise).
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yoga is the practise of mastering the mind
Yoga isn’t just stretching.
It’s the practise of working toward a clear mind. (And sometimes, the state of having one.)
But, something that’s super important and often misunderstood, is that this doesn’t mean not having thoughts, it means relating to them differently…