Samskara is the sanskrit word describing the condition of mind patterns, the ruts in the mind that we go to through habit. We may find ourselves falling in to them most easily when we are emotionally, physically, energetically, intellectually or spiritually impaired.
Most often it is an unhealthy software routine that doesn't bring us new information or insights; merely reinforcing and repeating an unhealthy and unhelpful pattern of thought. Ruminating over worries, things we cannot change, fears and insecurities and, often, our negative feelings about another, each time we repeat these negative patterns they become easier to access. It takes effort to change.
Whether it is jealousy, anger or a resentment, by repeating the cause in your mind you are deepening the pattern of thought. Try instead to make a NEW THOUGHT PATTERN, a healthy one. Try this:
“If you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free.Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness,and you will be free. Even when you don’t really want it for them and your prayers are only words and you don’t mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, pg. 552 Freedom From Bondage
The founder of S.O.A.R.™ Success Over Addiction and Relapse, she teaches recovery oriented yoga online and in person. Kyczy also leads recovery infused yoga classes online with Studio Live TV.
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