Getting Out of Your Own Way

1) Our society tells children what the rules are so that they will know their way around so that when they are older they will be able to invent better rules. 2) Our societies preparation for life is a system of schooling that starts with grades, from grade school to college, to grad school, to life. 3)One often feels cheated because life feels the same as its always felt and they are conditioned to be in desperate need of a future. 4)The final goal of our society is retirement. 5)The goody that was lying at the end of the line never turns up. Making plans for the future is of use only for people living completely in the present. 1)The Chinese word for nature is Da ziran ,that which happens of itself. 2)If you tell nature you must do it you stop the spontaneous flowering. 3)Human beings are simply the fabric and structure of existence itself. 4)The secret of life is to be completely engaged in what your doing here and now and instead of calling it work, call it play. 1)Dr. Brewers experience of flow was bike riding on a trail in an event and once finishing saying woah! When can I do that again? 2)We get caught up thinking 50% of the time 3)A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. 4)During meditation the brain gets really quiet. 5)The test subject learned the difference between getting caught up and getting out of his own way. Response: The way this section of gotten out of your own way relates to yoga is because when doing yoga you should be getting out of your own way. What Dr. Brewer was speaking about has a lot to do with yoga, because it is a form of meditation and one of the most important parts of yoga is focusing on your breathing. Not focusing on it so much that your thinking about it, but just enough to know that you are breathing and getting out of your own way so you won't block yourself from the full experience.