Your body is a perfectly designed, highly adaptable organism. It is capable of quick evolution to changing circumstances and frequencies. It heals itself with regular ease and can build strength and endurance to support your activity and lifestyle. The interconnected web of subtle energy and mind/heart consciousness has proven to be capable of miracles — many beyond science’s capacity to measure — and can achieve such feats without external influences. Human beings may be within this realm of time and degeneration, but we also have the power to transcend all of it and understand Source-consciousness. We can feel, we can love, we can experience all of the earthly sensations, pleasures, and pain — and we can also be like gods and angels.

Your body is your most valuable possession. With proper care and energy, it can achieve ecstatic states and monumental feats, solely with the purity of capabilities that were bestowed by creation. It deserves the very best you can offer. 💜

Five keys to awakening, two possible paths. The mapping of these keys provides a different way of viewing two paths of yoga.

The path of wisdom (self-realization): Wisdom > Discipline > Sovereignty > Surrender > Trust

Through attaining many layers of wisdom, we begin to see the value in cultivating discipline through self-honoring and dedicated practice. Clarity of mind and body creates the conditions for wisdom to flourish into deep understanding of the cosmos and access into the many multidimensional layers of self. Self-sovereignty values and honors the self as a source of wisdom and knowing — not willing to give up or sacrifice personal power and truth. It is with this powerful sense of self and self-love that we can truly surrender, with full awareness, and through surrender comes trust. Trust in the self, trust in the process. Self and universe are seen as one. The wisdom path acknowledges the Divine within as a source of awakening, not as an external entity separate from Self.

The path of trust (devotion): Trust > Surrender > Sovereignty > Discipline > Wisdom

As human beings, we exist in a complex and layered realm full of external wisdom and experiences across dimensions of time. Through an act of trust, we acknowledge these external lessons as a source of guidance and a key to purpose, thereby surrendering to external wisdom and walking the path of the devotee. Absorbing the wisdom of the ages provides strength and sovereignty to the great teachings and teachers of our time. Solidifying and validating their experiences strengthens the experience of self. The path of devotion requires great discipline in the willingness to follow in the footsteps of the masters. They become a source of light and wisdom. Through our devotion, wisdom is gifted, and knowledge of universal laws attained. The path of trust is the path of the devotee, in which the seeker attains external knowledge and truth as a source of awakening.

“A man following the pravritti (outward) path looks away from the bindu towards the outside world. He is almost entirely motivated by external events. The other path, the nivritti (reversed) path, is the spiritual path, the path of wisdom. On this path the individual begins to face the bindu, turning in toward the source of his being. This path leads to freedom. The path of evolution is the pravritti path of manifestation and extroversion. The path of involution leads back along the path that produced your individual being. The purpose of yoga practice is to help direct your awareness along the involutionary path.” — Swami Satyananda Saraswati