Message #32203

[Jitendra Hydonus]

As a teen anger I was interested in hatha yoga. Hatha yoga is used as a physical regimen to help the body be more flexible and strong.  I gravitated more towards hatha yoga when most guys were into football and basketball. From hatha yoga came the idea of meditation. It is difficult to set still for long periods of time without a relaxed and strong body so that you do not have to constantly think about aches and pains. Hatha yoga was originally created to help yogis meditate. Sometimes I would read in hatha yoga books about simple techniques of yoga.

One of them was to focus on an object. The object that I used quite consistently as a teenager was a candle flame. Looking into a 🕯 candle flame for long periods of time and then closing my eyes and seeing the object still in my minds eye. The flame had a calming affect on my mind.