01. MY THREE POSITIVES.
1. Walks through the autumn forest, colorful leaves, and the smell of mushrooms.
2. Getting myself back in shape after vacation – running and push-ups.
3. The persimmons are starting to bloom.
02. MY THOUGHTS AND DISCOVERIES.
"You're so disgusting! Can't I get sick, like everyone else?
Do you want to get sick?
Don't you want...?
No.
Everyone does! You just lie there...
Listen, come on over to my place! I'll lie in bed, and you'll ask me how I'm feeling. And I'll say, 'I'm the sickest person in the world, and I don't need anything else.' Except, maybe... well, some huge cake, mountains of chocolate, and maybe a really big bag of candy, that's all."
I thought about the question: why do I actually suffer?
It's more or less clear what it's from, but the question is, why do we need it? Especially in situations where there's a choice not to suffer.
For example, the weather is gloomy, something bad is happening in life, the news feeds us fresh corpses—it all comes together and melancholy overwhelms us...
But you could just go for a cheerful run, plan and do it, have fun.
A small child who's just learning to walk, having fallen for the first time, doesn't know how to react—then the parents help, "Oh, you poor thing, just cry."
Then childhood: if a child gets sick, they're pitied, they're given attention, care, treats. This is where manipulation arises: they'll pretend to be sick to get attention. Plus, it's a method to get people to leave you alone with their demands. "I won't do my homework, can't you see, I'm sick..."
They also say that being sick means you're not paying attention.
But we're honest people, like in the joke: an American will lie about a headache to get out of work, while a Russian will make it seem like he actually has one.
So you can develop a pattern of suffering, believe it, and suffer out of habit.
We depend on our environment, we copy: "The kid, after the summer, learned a new word from grandma – blood pressure."
But it can also be the other way around. My children learned it from someone, and when they hit themselves, they'd happily shout, "It didn't hurt, the chicken's happy."
Then school ends, the child faces independence – work or college, where parents won't be much help. And, in my time, many preferred to listen to depressing music, like everything is bad, we're all going to die, etc.
It happened to me too, I think it's an attempt to downplay the importance of what's happening now: well, I failed my exams, but we're all going to die anyway. And in an attempt to make ordinary life more appealing by comparing it to something negative.
Plus, our motivational system wants more and isn't simply content with what we already have.
It's great if you find a life partner, build a career, have children, plant a tree—according to social norms, the task is accomplished, and you can relax. If not, something will start to weigh on your brain—more suffering. Suffering has an upside here—it motivates you to move, to do something.
Thank you to yoga for understanding that whether to suffer or not is a conscious choice.
Yes, you need to break your habits and make an effort, but it works.
It's easiest in a neutral situation, when the choice—to suffer or not—requires no special effort.
It's harder when circumstances are pressing—it's hard to maintain a positive outlook with a toothache. But here's an interesting observation from life, an understanding that right now They'll cure it and the pain will go away—it removes suffering, even though the pain remains the same. Then we can conclude that the connection between pain and suffering can be broken.
03. MY YOGA INSPIRATION IN ONE WEEK.
So much useful knowledge...
04. MY GRATITUDE AND PRAISE.
For the simple explanation.
05. I WANT TO PRAISE MYSELF.
Getting back into shape after vacation.
06. PERSONAL YOGA PRACTICE IN ONE WEEK.*
Hatha and joint exercises, 6 days a week.
07. LEARNING DIFFICULTIES.*
Lots of material.