Hari Om
Today, when we are spending more time at our homes with families or alone, the question comes “what do I do the whole day?” and “how to spend my time constructively?”.
This time is a golden opportunity for us to reflect on how we live, what we want in life and how we can improve ourselves and our lifestyles now and for the future.
It is a chance to adapt a spiritual yogic lifestyle and create a good structure for the day. This can be achieved by living our normal daily routines with a focus on;
- Acquiring good physical health to boost the immune system;
- Good mental and emotional balance to maintain clarity, happiness, harmony, contentment, positivity and creativity
- Developing a spiritual culture in life.
Swami Sivananda Saraswati says Now is the perfect time to sow a thought, reap an action, sow an action, reap a habit, sow a habit, reap a character, sow a character and reap a destiny.
In order to achieve the above one needs to develop the idea of sanyam. Sanyam literally means restraint, but it also indicates a process by which all dimensions of the human personality and lifestyle are balanced and beautified.
A yogic lifestyle is based on sanyam, along with a continued effort to improve and do better. It will be a time of positive change for all of us if we apply ourselves.
If we can acknowledge and accept our faults, and see our positive and supportive contributions to the problems we face. We as individuals can change our lifestyles to live more simply, more harmoniously with ourselves, our family and friends and our home - Planet Earth.
Yogic Lifestyle Sadhana
A comprehensive yogic lifestyle sadhana is being presented here designed for this time. You are free to incorporate one, two or more components of this lifestyle sadhana to your daily routine.
Select the components that you can easily follow and are inclined towards, adjust them with other daily commitments. Balance your family, social, professional, personal and spiritual yogic aspirations.
Connect to yoga and live yoga from moment to moment.
The aim of this sadhana is to improve and enhance the physical, mental and pranic health of the individual and develop an immunity to ward of all future debilitating situations.
Please practice the yoga lifestyle sadhana safely according to your level of health, fitness and experience. Maintain awareness of physical movement and breath to ensure that you do not strain or overexert.
- Yamas and Niyamas
Shaucha & Swasthya / Hygiene and Health
Focus of personal, house and environmental hygiene. Keep all areas clean and prepare individual sets containing towels, soaps, toothbrush, tooth paste, shaving sets and other necessary items for the bathroom.
At home do not encourage common use of soaps and towels and pastes, creams etc. and similarly sets of cups, plates, spoons, forks, glasses, etc. should be kept separate for each member of the household.
Focus on regularising your practice of yoga asanas, pranayamas, exercises, meditation etc. to attain good health, immunity, vitality, relaxation and total wellbeing.
March 2020
From the website «www.satyamyogaprasad.net», Living A Yogic Lifestyle Program, Sw. Niranjanananda Saraswati