10 Tips to Live a More Authentic Life

Many people ask themselves what it is to live a truly authentic life. One perspective invites us to abide wholeheartedly based on the 5 Yamas and 5 Niyamas outlined in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. 

We are each invited to explore different life areas and discover where we adhere to these universal principles or not.  Working with a mentor, guide or therapist can assist us to deepen soul alignment.  Dreams are realized based on congrumence or inner harmony. If we are out of alignment with these principles, then life issues arise.

Yamas

1. Ahimsa (non-harming or non-violence in thought, word and deed)

2. Satya (truthfulness)

3. Asteya (non-stealing)

4. Brahmacharya (celibacy or 'right use of energy')

5. Aparigraha (non-greed or non-hoarding)

Niyamas

1. Saucha (cleanliness)

2. Santocha (contentment)

3. Tapas (discipline, austerity or 'burning enthusiasm')

4. Svadhyaya (self-study)

5. Isvara Pranidhana (surrender to na higher being or contemplation of a higher power)

10 Tips to Live an Amazing Life

Life is a journey of endless opportunities, challenges, and uncertainties. To feel truly fulfilled, it is crucial to embody certain virtues that empower us to navigate through its twists and turns with grace and determination. Let us delve into the significance of 10 tips we can use in daily lives to enrich our life experience:

I. The Power of Diligence

Be diligent, attentive, and detail-oriented. Take pride in work.  Pay attention to the subtleties, and ensure that everything is done to the best of our ability. This virtue applies to personal & professional endeavours.

2. Redefine Success

Many people limit ideas of success to being meticulous and creating higher-quality endeavours. Commitment to excellence certainly earns respect and admiration.  Yet, to accept self fully is to know and reflect true success.

3. Prioritize Personal Growth

To explore options for personal development enables us to make well-informed decisions, and expand on what we think. To identify areas for growth allows us to create a sense of progress, be the best version of ourselves.

4. Embrace Foresight 

Foresight is the ability to anticipate and see through illusions of time. It is an indispensable quality that allows us to envision a path forward, navigate uncertainties, and seize opportunities, ensure us a sense of direction. 

 5. Adapt to Change

Life is dynamic, and unforeseen circumstances often arise. To anticipate potential challenges, feel comfortable with spontaneity reduces stress and allows us to adapt swiftly to change.

6. Develop Fearlessness 

Fearlessness is the courage to face challenges, embrace vulnerability, and step outside of our comfort zones. It is about acknowledging doubts, not allowing them to dictate our actions. Overcome self-imposed limitations and societal expectations. By challenging our fears, we unleash dormant potential and discover newfound strengths.

7. Pursue Passion

To pursue our passions wholeheartedly, implies we do not hold back due to the prospect of external judgments, possible rejection or failure. It opens doors to opportunities that might have remained hidden.

8. Build Self-Awareness

Understand the nature of perception. Hone your strengths to work on areas of growth.

9. Practice Daily Gratitude

Focus on reasons to feel grateful for everything in your life.  Acknowledge lessons are available in every situation. Acept that progress is being made and the blessings are being received.

10. Nourish Resilience

Life may throw curveballs, yet we have elasticity and potential to bounce back stronger and wiser. To transform our lives is about seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary.  Its not about being comething we are not. The path to an amazing life involves being diligent in our endeavours, embracing our fears, and pursuing our passions wholeheartedly. By living a purpose-driven life, we redefine fulfillment, harmony and peace rigth where we are. So, let us seize the day, make the most of where we are, unleash our true greateness.  Savour this moment.

Be the discipline of Yoga

Notice a dream goes on within us continuously. A man can live without sleep but cannot live without dreams. Sleep is only needed so you can dream. If you are not allowed to dream, you will not feel fresh or alive. If you are in a dreaming state, only then do you listen to me. Dreaming is somewhere other than the here and now. You are jumping ahead. True yoga is the path to consistently be here and now. Yoga means you are ready not to hope or glimpse ahead. If you are hoping yoga will bring something for you, then yoga is not for you. Yoga is about not moving toward the past or future, but about moving within you, being present in your deepest centre. The mind must be here to enter this reality. Yoga does not invite you to learn anything. No belief or faith is required. It is not mental. Simply venture bravely into the unknown, and experience things directly. Only by tuning in, and settling the mind as it is does transformation happen. Yoga is both death and a new life. Unless the old dies, the new cannot be born. Unless you are ready to die, you cannot be reborn from the ashes. This is not something you think about, it is something you must be. Sometimes guidance is useful to get out of the head and into the heart. Yet, the gist must be done, known alone. To grow aware of Now, is to see pattern of life is confusing and meaningless, desires dissolve, deep anguish and suffering arise. If whatever you do brings pure misery then the moment is now. You cannot ask for this but earn it. Only then does one begin to understand the discipline of yoga. You cannot obtain the capacity to know until you obtain the capacity to be. This is not a curiousity or intellectual. It is far deeper. Dissatisfaction is not real and total as long as hope exists. All hope must fall to truly enter yoga. The one who promises to do or do not do is no longer. Who is going to be blissful? Silence is only possible in harmony, when no crowd exists.