Saucha: Walking A Clear Path

Let's explore the yogic niyama: SAUCHA. "Purity & Clearness". Imagine filling your alchemical cauldron only with that which is part of your journey - nothing else. Just the ingredients that nourish you and expand your possibilities. Let's explore together! Part 6 of The Yogic Path Series.
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Transcript

Today we're doing our sixth class in our Yogic Path in the Light and this is all based in the eight limbs of yoga and the first two limbs are the Yamas and the Niyamas.

The Yamas are what they call the restraints but really they're the things that help to keep us on our path.

Again we've talked about living in this very strange world,

This very dark world that has a lot of strange foundational elements like this idea that having a high pain tolerance is a good idea and no pain no gain and suffering is normal.

This has sort of been part of our the weaving of our consciousness and the Yamas,

The restraints,

Kind of help us not get distracted by those things and stay on our own path.

So today we're talking about Saucha which actually translates into purity or cleanliness or clearness and this is a Niyama and a Niyama is like an observance that's probably the closest translation but really if the Yamas say here's how we don't get distracted by these things the Niyamas are so here's what we're going to focus on here's what we're gonna put our attention on it's kind of like you know how the the mental body actually can they see that the mental body works in pictures so let's say somebody is climbing a tree let's say one of your children is climbing a tree and you don't want them to fall if you say don't fall don't fall the brain records fall it doesn't like record fall with a big X on it because this child still sees falling so instead you say hold on and you let the brain focus on hold on and that's what's empowering and that's like a Niyama these are the things we're gonna focus on because as we focus on them the energy goes toward them and that's what expands our life so it's really interesting to imagine this word socha I mean it's a Sanskrit word but they would spell it s-a-u-c-h-a because again in this in this world of darkness we think of the word purity cleanliness all that kind of thing there's like for me anyway there's like a judgment in there that if you don't observe socha you're impure there's something wrong with you I have impure thoughts I have an impure lifestyle and and the hard thing with that is is his for centuries this idea has been used to shame us and shame is the most damaging thing that another person or an institution can oppress someone with this is a real problem so sometimes even the idea as soon as I say purity there's an initial pushback to say don't you judge me don't you say that my world isn't pure I can do whatever I want don't you tell me what I should eat and what I can't eat and what I can do what I can do when I can't think and I can't I could do whatever I want like there's this massive pushback to it because of this world and because these this idea this actually beautiful spiritual idea has been co-opted bastardized whatever used by churches and institutions families whatever to really oppress people and make people feel like they are sinful unworthy all these things and I only mention this here because we kind of have to get it out of the way we have to kind of go okay that's how it's been used in this past existence and perhaps I mean it's probably happened in our own lives for sure but it's also rolling through our ancestral memory it's just it's like the pool we're swimming in and that's why the yogic path is so interesting because the yogic path is always about you living your perfect life whatever your perfect individuated divine physical path is and every single one of us has a perfectly unique path and that's what yoga is always about it's never about living according to someone else's ideals even though in the yoga community they'll say you should only eat this and you should only do this and you should practice this way that is often how it's been passed down because it's kind of getting passed down it just that's just what happens in Kali Yuga or however we want to understand this time we've been living in but really it's always about Satya truth that truth that goes from our seventh chakra all the way down to our first chakra that says why was I put here this soul this DNA sequence this assignment this is the point of yoga to bring all of us back together as a whole open our eyes and just walk that path with clarity so then the question becomes what if you only had things in your life that truly nourished you that really expanded your path that had nothing to do with anyone else what if you only ate the food that nourished your body specifically they say that diets a huge topic and the most interesting person I've ever actually studied diet with was my friend who used to teach a course called food Dharma at my train station and he was like a Chinese medicine guy and he used to because people used to say well what's the ideal diet and he said well I kind of figure there's seven and a half billion ideal diets on the planet because every one of us is so perfectly unique and so it's a very interesting thing to imagine what's your perfect diet what actually suits you best no judgment no nothing just actually based on your own experience what makes you feel bright and shiny what gives you energy that you can already feel like there's all this like judgment shame it's all just rolling around us rape it's like just let all that go just like shake it off and just sort of go no really what are the thought patterns that really keep me clear on my path if I was to explore my emotional state how do I experience emotions that really help guide me on my path that emotions act like a beautiful biofeedback mechanism that helped me constantly self-correct and take me towards the things I love and away from the things that are bad for me what are the philosophies that really expand my consciousness here I recently read this probably in one of the books or I heard it I don't know but it was really interesting like it was a guru speaking and he was saying how when he turned 16 he was initiated and that in his tradition if you were studying in a past life a particular tradition when you are reborn if you're meant to continue that study the initiation will begin again at age 16 and you will simply continue so now imagine this forgetting about whether it's 16 or 56 like don't we don't worry about that but isn't it interesting how sometimes you pick up a book and the philosophy of this book or a teaching or whatever and you go why this resonates you just know this already like you're just picking up from where you left off this is a very interesting awareness to have inside of us this is part of Sautja it's like aha this is an ingredient this is part of my world and I'm gonna focus on it to the exclusion of the things that aren't me and this is really an interesting thing because in our education system for example we're taught that we have to know all the things we have to understand a bit of this we have to know math we have to know art we have to be an athlete we have to know French one Canada we have to know this we have to know that and if we don't know all of the things we're not smart you have to know all of the things so imagine instead your body is like this cauldron let's imagine we are an alchemical process there we are always transforming so we have this beautiful cauldron which is our being our DNA sequence our body our mind our aura however you understand it and within that cauldron we're gonna put in all the ingredients for this soul's journey but just the ingredients for this soul's journey if calculus isn't part of your soul's journey you don't want it in the cauldron if athletics isn't part of your soul's journey then you don't want it in the cauldron if politics isn't part of your journey you don't want it in the cauldron so the problem is or the challenge is oftentimes we spend a big part of the middle to last part of our life pulling out of the cauldron that aren't ours some of them are the opinions of our parents or the opinions of the church or the society we were raised in or whatever we've got to keep pulling them out of the cauldron because they're not part of my journey and the problem is so you have this cauldron and the transformative process of life starts with fire fire is what life is about but we have a cauldron we have the ingredients of our life and then we have the fire well what happens if there's all kinds of impurities in the cauldron and this isn't some shameful impurity this is just something that isn't you well what happens in our life when we have elements of our life that are a hundred percent us and there's something in our life that isn't it messes with the flow you're always adapting to that weird thing that's not really you you're complaining about it you're analyzing you're chewing about it you're worrying about it you're stressing about it you're talking to your friends about it you're dreaming about it you're journaling about it it's kind of like you know even if you imagine it like food you know you imagine you eat food and maybe it's crappy food like maybe you know you're just like oh I'm just going on a binge and eating a pile of fried food and blah blah well nothing evil about fried food but it will slow the liver down which is why I love my friend who teaches food Dharma because he would always say that if you see yourself being called to eating a lot of fried food it isn't about judgment it's just simply about going hmm isn't that interesting that right now I'm really seeking to slow my liver down which normally means that I'm feeling too many emotions that I can't handle and he just said just observe it still eat the food don't worry about it but I just love that because it's like ah that's interesting or if we're really going for a lot of comfort foods to not judge the fact that we're eating comfort food but to actually look at ourselves and say why do I need so much comfort food right now that's interesting we still take the comfort but we also allow it into our consciousness that something must be a muck that I'm feeling sad right now and the challenge again with a lot of the comfort food or the fried food or whatever it is that we're taking into our bodies is our bodies don't necessarily know how to digest it properly that's why they're bad for us because the body struggles to digest it and then it has to turn and we get indigestion and maybe we get constipated or maybe we end up at having to come out of our skin or whatever and it's the same with emotional things we chew on it we get indigestion we don't we can't sleep at night kind of thing right so there's a real beauty and actually saying you know what what really works for me and if we're feeling called to things in our lives whether it's food or people or thoughts or the news or scary movies or toxic friendships or whoever like if we feel ourselves drawn to these things to kind of just sit back with real love and say why am i eating this feeling this hey oh it's person what's under that is there a karmic pattern here is there something I'm supposed to look at because when our goal is actually to only have friendships that are joyful that nourish us that changes everything when our goal is to actually only eat food that nourishes us it just gives us different eyes on things so again it's not about the judgment it's just about saying hmm when I only have things ideas in my life that nourish me my life only expands and all of a sudden all the different things in my consciousness also start to fit together so for example we talk about healing a lot and my favorite definition of healing is that it's coming to wholeness and in many ways we aren't whole because we've been split apart for some reason some part of us has said no there's something wrong with this other part of us this part is okay but this part isn't so it's almost like we've tried to sever it off like I'd like to sever that off and push it away I'd like to get rid of that part so that I can only be this bright and shiny person cuz I don't like this I don't like that part of me I don't like part of that part of my story I don't like it I just want to just want to let that go so what caused the division what caused that break in the stone it's an impurity it's a judgment it's a philosophy that says there's something wrong with that thing there's something wrong with you there's something wrong that that happened to you that philosophy is an impurity so when we replace that so now you imagine so if we want to come to a place of healing we want to get to the root of whatever that thing is that caused that crevice and that crack inside of us we want to look at it and we want to say hold on what's the truth what's the clearness so it's interesting socha means purity cleanliness and clearness it means a zillion things it's Sanskrit but those are some of the three big ones so now what happens we go into that crevice and we start cleaning it out bit by bit going okay yeah that doesn't belong on my path and that's no good and that's just something my grandmother said and that's something I learned and no that's not and we just keep cleaning it out until we get right down to the bottom of it and it's all gone and we replace it with the true philosophy that maybe every part of my journey matters the difficult the happy the challenging the ecstatic it's all part of this DNA sequence for some reason and one day I'll understand it all and then bit by bit this all goes into the cauldron and then suddenly we get to invite that part of us back and we get to integrate it and it gets to be part of who we are again this is socha we cannot be whole if we have all of these weird ideas in there kind of messing up with like I think of if people make clay pots how important it is that the clay has no impurities in it because what happens when it goes into the kiln if there's an impurity in it it cracks so this idea of really consciously going into our lives with a fine-tooth comb and saying not this that's not mine this is not my path this is not my path this really matters this is really really powerful work it's an important part of our yogic path so we often think of four different bodies we think of a lot of different bodies when it comes to the to yoga we think of our physical body we think of our mental body or bodies we think of our emotional body we think of our spiritual body but I really just want to talk about the three the three the three bodies because our spiritual body is actually clear and when our physical mental and emotional bodies are clear our spiritual bodies mint that we've talked about that in all the chakra talks the chakra 2.

0 talks that our chakras are perfect but we have this interesting interface between this beautiful perfection inside and this very curious world on the outside and that is this mental body emotional body physical body so in the Hatha yoga tradition the the true Hatha yoga tradition that incorporates asana and stuff like that but Hatha yoga is very much about meeting God through the body where other paths of yoga like Raja yoga is more about meeting God or integrating self through meditation or in yani yoga which is about I am a classic nyani yogi this this is what brings me joy all of these books if I'm ever spinning out on the planet I could pick one of these books open it up read for like five minutes and my whole body rests a Hatha yogi wants to do Sun Salutations or some kind of physical practice that's what will bring them to peace but deeper in the Hatha tradition is something called shut karmas and shut karmas are these purification kriyas they actually call it kriya just means to cleanse and they're all of these cleansing rituals that sometimes you might have heard of them and some of them are pretty common and some of them are pretty esoteric that you really only want to practice with a trained professional and I'm gonna mention them not because I think you should do them because but I think it's an interesting way of understanding our emotional and mental bodies in terms of the physical practices and the other interesting thing to consider is that even if at this point right now you feel like you are living in a very pure state like it's so funny right it's such a hard word to say because it's been it's just been used in such bad ways or in such dysfunctional or unhelpful ways we live in a world filled with all kinds of other whether it's the air whether it's the food whether it's the news whether it's topics of conversation whether it's fears whether it's ancestral trauma who knows so it's always interesting to and this is why I include this shot karmas here because to imagine a purification process that is ongoing that we're always kind of taking care of ourselves we're always checking the engine we're always sort of taking stock is anything stuck that doesn't belong you know where am I now like this is where regular yoga practice or regular walking on the beach or whatever your yoga is is so valuable because we're always in a state of flux we're always interacting with the world around us what if we brought in like I know for me I love learning like I'm okay so even yesterday having this experience at the dentist triggering all this trauma and different things that's another experience it's now sort of flowing through my system again might require a bit of cleansing might require a bit of meditation might require a bit of pranayama might require something to help move that experience through me so in the same way that we might go out and have a great fun and eat nachos and drink beer and I don't know maybe smoke cigars and stuff I don't know what we're doing and then maybe we go you know what kind of need a bit of a fast now just let the body rest so just to allow and that's this is why these shut karmas are very interesting whether you do these specifically or you do some kind of version for yourself one of the most common shot karmas is neti and this is where you see the neti pots to cleanse this whole area you see the neti pot where they have the saline solution and they put it in one nostril and out the other in some traditions they'll actually take a tube that they'll actually go through the nose and out the mouth and and they'll cleanse it that way like they'll pour the saline solution that way again this is where like I'm not saying you should go home and try this I'm just saying this is some of the these are some of the processes another common one is like colon irrigation it's a kind of enema and they do it all kinds of fancy ways and again only you with a proper practitioner you would do this but even imagine that there is an enema or whatever kind of thing to actually every so often mentally emotionally everything sometimes we just have to let it all go look it's just have to like okay you know what there's just too much going on and no you know maybe we need to watch a movie that makes us cry or maybe we just need to have a good friend over and we just need to rant just let it all out and maybe we just need to do a really good yoga Kriya that makes us sweat it makes us angry it just brings up all those emotions and we just like ah we just let it all out it's an interesting thing another common karma is couple body which is like breath of fire that we do in Kundalini yoga and couple body it actually means shining skull breath because they talk about this frontal cortex that develops around age 8 12 that time where we actually are able to have imagination it's a very positive thing but unfortunately in a world of difficulty and darkness it's also used to house our fears and our imagination creates all kinds of scenarios that we then have to live through for the rest of our lives if we're not careful so if we do a strong breath of fire a strong couple body we do these kind of breath techniques these kind of pranayamas they actually clear the cobwebs out of here they help us get rid of all those fear programs that maybe have nothing to do with us this is why it helps us on our path of saucha we don't need to walk through fearful scenarios that is not why we were put here another really common shot karma is Chaddakim like candle gazing but it doesn't have to be candle gazing it could be even going for a walk and finding a beautiful tree and sitting down and gazing at the tree and allowing your focus to be total that's all Traddekim is pick a rose pick a beautiful sometimes they would say look in the eyes of a guru but find one thing to gaze upon and sit and gaze upon it this is Traddekim and what does it do it clears our mind one of the reasons that we candle gaze is we actually you have a candle sitting in front of you it's very very simple you put a candle sitting in front of you and you close your eyes and you breathe here on insight timer I have a meditation called kaya stearium and kaya stearium is something that's very helpful to use right before you do Traddekim because it helps to still the body so if you do kaya stearium and then you open your eyes and you gaze at the candle and you stare at the candle until you almost think you can see it right here in your third eye and then you close your eyes and oftentimes the candle will appear right here so now you sit in meditation breathing deeply focusing on the image of the candle in your third eye and as soon as it starts to go away just close your eye then open your eyes again and stare at the candle until it's back close your eyes and stare here and this is the process of Traddekim and what it does is it teaches us singular focus and eventually after you maybe you practice this for a month every day or every couple days or something like that eventually you don't need the candle you just sit in meditation and a candle appears and now you have this beautiful singular focus in a clear mind a pure mind and not a pure like Puritan we have to get rid of that a purely you mind with no distraction no other people in our mind just you just you in the cosmos just you and God so there's something like a Traddekim is so powerful for whatever it is that works for you whether it's sitting by the ocean whether it's sitting in the woods whatever allows this singular focus that lets the world fall away and you're left with just you this is Saocha so then we imagine mentally living Saocha in our mind so oftentimes if you google Saocha they'll often talk about decluttering your space making your home a very clear space clearing your fridge going through your cupboards going through your closet only have in your world that's something really current for you right now personally I find this more to be a mental clearing we may do it in our physical space but again in the land of these shot karmas this perpetual cleansing like imagine the body for example the body is always in a state of cleansing that's why the cells are constantly renewing themselves life is happening we have sunshine we sweat we eat food we have conversation the body is constantly sending enzymes and fixing this and sorting that and then excreting what we're finished with so it's a very interesting practice to do that with our surroundings with our mind with our emotions to always look around and say is this still current in my life to go through your bookshelf and just say is that still current in my life is it part of my journey now or is it part of yesterday's journey when I was married and my kids were young I had a busy household I used to take a box when I cleaned the house on Saturdays I used to take a box and I would walk around the house and I would just fill it with anything that wasn't current and of course my kids were growing so it was really easy that there were always things that weren't current so I would go into their bedrooms when they were little and I would go through their their drawers and whatever shirts or socks or whatever didn't fit them anymore they would all go in the box and then I would go through the toys and things they didn't play with would go in the box and then I would go through my books and books I didn't they would go in the max and I would go along the mantles and I would say okay I don't really even like that anymore and I put that in the box and I would go through the kitchen and I would be like I don't really ever used that I put that in the box I go through my own cupboards my own closets and I would go I don't ever wear that I put that in the box and I would make these little boxes that would go to the secondhand store and it was just it wasn't like some massive cleanse it was just like a weekly little maybe not weekly but it was really interesting so that's to me about decluttering like even being able to go into your fridge and to mentally not have to go through all the things you're never gonna eat but just the only thing in there are the things you do eat there's something really interesting in Patanjali sutras where he talks about saucha the sutra as it says that when we are focused on saucha our path becomes clear because we aren't being distracted by all the things we're not all the things that have nothing to do with us there's someone else's stuff there's stuff that I used a year ago there's stuff I thought about three years ago whatever this is no longer my path this is my past what is my future what is my current so mentally it's very interesting it's interesting even to sit if you sit in meditation and you have thoughts going through your mind to really ask yourself are these today's thoughts really in previous talks I've talked about David Bohm my favorite quantum physicist one thing he was really interested in human consciousness and used to talk about the difference between thinking and what he called thoughting and he said and thoughting isn't a real word but he basically said the problem is when we think we're thinking we often aren't thinking assumes that we're actually thinking in the current time he said but most of the time we're just repeating thoughts from the past we're not here at all and if we're actually just thinking thoughts from the past to say we're thinking isn't true it'd be more accurate to say that we're thoughting that's really an interesting thing to ponder are these thoughts in my mind current and then to ask ourselves why am I stuck are those thoughts is it time to let them go is it time to have new thoughts is it time to have thoughts that are current for my current incarnation that I woke up today in my current realization decluttering our mind means living in our Satya living in our true path whatever that is and everything else allowing it just to fall to the wayside it's just not our path we don't even have to reject it it's just not ours and that could be an opinion it could be a thought it could be this going on it could be something you read in a book even for me like I'm reading these books about tantra about these ancient rights and one of the things that are is very common is the idea of the requirement of an initiation by a guru I've been thinking about that a lot lately wondering is this an important thing is this necessary is this part of what I'm gathering into my consciousness but I'm just pondering it I'm kind of like throwing it around seeing if it sticks anywhere is it part of my Satya is it part of my path and it comes out of some one of these cool books I don't have to reject it I don't have to make it wrong all I have to know is it part of my path is it something I need to consider that's all and that's how we can walk through life I don't have you don't have to be wrong you just have exactly the right opinion for you and I have the exact opinion for me that's all another beautiful way to live in Sautja is that beginner's mind to let it all go it's kind of like that mental enema you know the colon cleansing of the shot karma let it all go and just live in this beautiful clear space and then see what I want to add to it instead instead of dealing with all the old stuff what do I want to add to this beautiful clear canvas the other thing with Sautja that's a very practical thing to consider is our language to really imagine that the words you speak to other people and to yourself to really try to make sure that they reflect your truth all the time especially the language you use for yourself to really ask yourself are these words mine are these words like if I was to put these words this self-talk into my cauldron that I'm creating of my life do they belong in there and if they don't to look at them to do the cleanliness rituals to do whatever you've got to do and then maybe find the self-talk that is on your path that is your Sautja and then when we speak to other people to really keep to our pure thought and again I I'm really triggered by this word probably because I was raised by very religious people but to really try to be as clear as you can with our words because even though someone else might be hearing our words I'm hearing my words more than anyone I'm the one actually saying them and those sounds are like mantras resonating through my body whether I sit and chant whether I chant it to resonate sound through my body because it's in Sanskrit or I speak to you it's the same resonance that's going through my body so the words I speak affect my body and affect my life's path it's not just about the energy we're putting out in the world it's all here all the time it's very interesting to me very practical beautiful way of living Sautja and the last thing I want to mention is our emotional body and if you imagine that our physical mental and emotional bodies they're all the same if you imagine every atom that we are this multi-dimensional diamond and if you look at the diamond from one angle you see our physical body and if you look at our body from another if you look at that diamond from another angle you see our mental body and if you look at from another angle you see our emotional body and maybe you could continue in your radiant body and your oral body and your pranic body and all that kind of thing so it's all the same so again if you affect your physical body if you change your physical body it affects your mental body and emotional body.

It affects your mental body,

It affects the emotional body,

The physical body and not because it affects it,

It's all the same.

So it all just changes.

So it's the same thing with our emotional body.

To really be clear that our emotions are pure and again not a judgment that there are bad emotions or good emotions nothing like that but that our emotions are actually ours and that they're current in this moment in this time right now that the emotions I'm feeling are mine.

They're not my partners,

They're not my parents,

They're not my kids,

They're not my neighbors,

They're mine.

Our emotions are our biofeedback mechanism.

We can't adjust ourselves because of someone else's emotional state but we also can't adjust ourselves properly if we are living out a past emotional state of our own.

And this goes back to a similar thing with the thinking and the thought that oftentimes I can say well I'm feeling really sad.

Am I?

Am I feeling sad or am I felting?

Am I feeling an old feeling over and over and over again?

And this happens a lot.

This happens a lot in trauma,

This happens a lot in life that we have a feeling.

Now feelings were supposed to just roll through.

We're just supposed to roll through them but often what happens is instead of just rolling through the feeling somewhere in there especially if it happens a lot,

A thought form attaches to that feeling and creates a story and then all of a sudden instead of this flowing it starts to loop and the feeling starts to loop and we don't get to get out of it and the thought keeps repeating the story.

You remember that time?

Remember that time?

The body doesn't know the difference whether the trauma is happening now or it happened ten years ago and now we're felting.

The key to talking about this is it's really important to do whatever we can to heal that loop,

To remove the thought form so that we can feel naturally again,

To do whatever it takes to actually get to a place where I'm only feeling in this moment because I can't live my path if I'm stuck in a loop from my past.

That's the bottom line because I'm literally living in a past timeline so whatever we need whether it's counseling or journaling or somatic release therapy whatever it is we need to release something from the past so that we can come into this moment and actually experience our emotions with clearness whether they're happy,

Sad,

Angry,

Prideful,

Joyful,

Ecstatic,

Doesn't matter but we have to be able to flow through them.

This is really really important.

One of my favorite ways of looking at saucha is saucha is like this beautiful canvas and if we want to live our life we wake up today and we have this beautiful life to live we really want this canvas to be clear.

We don't want any impurities on it.

We don't want other people's junk and our ancestors beliefs or whatever.

We don't want that.

We want a clear canvas so it's really good to do whatever it takes to keep that canvas clear emotionally,

Mentally,

Physically and then we actually get to live our life and very exciting.

This is saucha.

What if they are subconscious?

Like what if the thoughts are on our subconscious?

You know the beautiful thing about the subconscious is the subconscious always wants to heal.

It always wants to remove.

It's almost like you know when you have a wound it'll fester because the impurities want out.

So what's interesting is anything that's in our subconscious that's ready to heal will be coming out.

It'll come out in emotional outbursts.

It will come out in patterns.

It will come out in maybe an illness.

It will come out in all kinds of ways and it's even interesting like so I teach Kundalini yoga and one of the interesting things about Kundalini yoga is that the Kundalini lies dormant in the first chakra in this thing called the Khanda and as we do yoga as we do practice it stimulates this Khanda and the Kundalini tries to move but if we have all kinds of sort of blockages it can't go very far but as we continue practice whatever it is it'll slowly start to jostle it.

It'll start to almost create a festering of these wounds.

So depending on what you're struggling with maybe it's a pranayama.

Maybe it's doing a daily practice and there's something really powerful about telling your body,

Telling your consciousness that I'm up for it.

Whatever's lying in my subconscious I want to know because our previous the reason it's in our subconscious is because previously maybe things happened when we were a child or when we were a young adult and we didn't have the ability to handle it.

So we consciously with our psyche repressed it.

We did that.

We said I can't handle this.

I need to put it in my subconscious and maybe later I can look at it.

So it's almost like we actually need to say all right now I want to look at it and maybe create a practice that every day you maybe just sit doing a pranayama for ten minutes or you sit and meditate or you wake up every morning and you do morning papers like in the artist way and you allow the stream of consciousness to come out but you just create a daily practice of dedication that no I really want to look at this now.

Sometimes I also love evening pages.

That was actually a practice apparently of Pythagoras.

Anyway it came out of a book I read a long time ago about the golden verses of Pythagoras or something and he recommended to his students every night to sit down and write evening pages and look at your day.

Look at the things that were in line with your soul.

Look at the things that you wish you could have done differently not from a judgment place but from an awareness place that isn't that interesting that I did that again.

And it just was sort of that before you go to bed at night to kind of clear your consciousness of everything and that's really helpful especially if you struggle to sleep or to have a good sleep to kind of just empty your mind that way.

Thank you so much for joining me today and we'll see you soon.

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Thank you so much very helpful and on helping me on the path

This was sooooo good!!! 😍😍😍 I’ve been waiting to hear some of this stuff my entire life! And I’m going to listen to it again and again! And I’m so glad I’m not the only one who does evening pages because they save my sleep— much better dreams!
Thank you so much Katrina!
(And Hopefully this review doesn’t show up five times but it might cause I’ve been having problems posting with this app😂!)

Ooooo, so so good. V timely for me. Love your teaching! 🙏🦋❤️