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Ok confession first, I love Yoga. Confession number two, I love the "Bikram" style yoga the most. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikram_Yoga

However, the reason for this post is because of an epiphany I had just before sleep the other night. When you are in that class, and you warm up with breathing, six counts in six counts out, it is a noisy process, and kinda sounds likes waves. It is a meditative process for me, and I think for most Yoga goers as well. The epiphany I had was who you are when you are breathing, I've always been the land of the wave, when in fact if you assume you are the water of the wave it is much more in line with yoga spirituality, assuming you are also reading the Tao Te Ching, which references water quite often. The land is just an obstacle in your way. Depending on the wave, your life may be challenged at the time, chaos if the wave is crashing down, over rocks, different obstacles. As you calm, as you are able to meditate through your breathing you are able to calm the wave, think of it like the perfect wave that just slowly rests itself on the ground and races up a beautiful sandy smoothe beach, when you breathe in you are bringing in the water into your being, and your exhale brings it up the sandy beach ... in you bring it back ... out up the beach ... in bring it back ... and so on.

This was the calmest I've ever been able to get my mind, and remarkably quickly.

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