Journey With Yoga estimated publication date: Jun 2026

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Chapter: 7 Insights from My Personal Journey

Description: A teacher corrects the student's yoga posture.

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Mentioned in a section where I talk about my teachers.

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Chapter: 7 Insights from My Personal Journey

Description: Papyrus Ani: A heart is weighted against a feather.

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... Also, good will; principles; pure intentions; will help avoiding karmic imprints. When your heart feels light and pure you do not get karmic imprints.

The word light can mean luminosity, but it can also mean less weight (in your heart). It is said: Buddhas, who are enlightened; do not accrue karma.

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Chapter: 7 Insights from My Personal Journey

Description: A tired man lies confined to the centre of a clock. He does not realize the fluidity of time above his reach.

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Manage focus, not speed. Manage energy, not time. Do not be a slave of time.

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Chapter: 7 Insights from My Personal Journey

Description: Thus, clean the kitchen floor as/while you clean your mind. Clean the stress and mess at work as/while you clean your mind.

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... This cleaning routine is much better than watching videos on primal moves on youtube.com and trying to copy with no benefit for the house cleaningless.

... Are you starting to understand? Everything is yoga. Waking-up breathing mindfully; cleaning the mat before the yoga; handing the clothes to dry ...

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Chapter: 7 Insights from My Personal Journey

Description: Have you ever seen these people who live in a pile of accumulated debt, trash?

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Their life looks more like a train wreck where one failure leads to another. When I read the “Zen and The Art of Motorcycle maintenance” – R. Pirsig; it was clear to me that one must know when to apply the mottos: (1). “if you made it dirty, clean it” (do not be in debt ) and (2). “if you took it away, put it back”. Such as when taking away a tool from its place in a motorcycle workshop.

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Chapter: 7 Insights from My Personal Journey

Description: A lot of the planetary problems we are facing are due to bad debt of various forms: financial debt such as above 200% of GDP in a few nations; debt with the environment that will take centuries to clean; debt with society (using money from pension accounts); short-termism leading to various debts in all administrative levels.

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I said debt is stressful, enslaving, and our society indeed lives in slavery and stress. Our society is like a man urinating and defecating on its bed. It is like man who sells his lunch to buy his dinner. We are remortgaging our home to buy a car. We are preferring or having to service a 4% interest for a lifetime, instead of receiving an 8% dividend, plus appreciation from a fair company share.

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Chapter: 7 Insights from My Personal Journey

Description: Above we have our own triptych for managing priorities in life: ‘juggling; balancing; grabbing; the human enigma’.

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... The yogi way - depicted in the middle with a ball balancing on his head - ensures that there is something, which is ‘not a ball being juggled’ that never drops. This is your highest priority (see chapter on motivation, priorities; see one-pointedness). What is this highest priority of a yogi? It is our spirituality....

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Chapter: 7 Insights from My Personal Journey

Description: Moving like a tai-chi master, using every opportunity to train body and mind. Make sure you move the whole day in near tai-chi movements with mindful breathing while being compassionate about yourself (self-love). This is at all times! You will notice how you will no longer be stressing yourself.

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A martial arts student gets told by his Japanese master to wax the wood surface of a table. Two shaolin monks sweep the path to the temple. These seemingly mundane tasks hold a profound lesson: every moment presents an opportunity to cultivate both body and mind.

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Source; License: Source: Gemini. Copyright: André Cesta. Reproduction is allowed provided mention to the book source is made as caption.

Chapter: 7 Insights from My Personal Journey

Description: Moving like a tai-chi master, using every opportunity to train body and mind. Make sure you move the whole day in near tai-chi movements with mindful breathing while being compassionate about yourself (self-love). This is at all times! You will notice how you will no longer be stressing yourself.

Book Excerpt

A martial arts student gets told by his Japanese master to wax the wood surface of a table. Two shaolin monks sweep the path to the temple. These seemingly mundane tasks hold a profound lesson: every moment presents an opportunity to cultivate both body and mind.

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Source; License: Source: Gemini. Copyright: André Cesta. Reproduction is allowed provided mention to the book source is made as caption.

Chapter: 6 My Personal Journey

Description: How I suggest we do hamstring stretches.

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For me what works wonders is the hamstring stretch you start standing-up and then bend 90 degrees or more to reach the top of the back of a chair. Remember to not stretch from your back, keep it a bit arched inwards as you hinge from the hips. You will find many more exercises at the end chapter!