YOGA TAICHI 91
Harmonious alliance of Yoga, Taichichuan, Qigong and Meditation
Stress management: knowing yourself well
The stress imposed on us by our Western societies is harmful to our health.
Learning to control it in order to regain a harmonious and balanced form of being in action will be one of the present and future challenges to succeed in balancing one's life. The Indian techniques of Yoga are particularly well suited to resolving this fundamental issue.
FIRST KEY: The levels of existence
The ancient Indian texts teach us that we can vibrate on several levels of existence:
let us recognise them!
1/ MUDHA :
A dark level, a thick state where something in us expresses suffering. The possibility of access to happiness is hidden by a heavy, conflictual life or there is a projection on external causes to justify this state. This state is accompanied by a lack of voluntary dynamic activities, a lack of dynamism and a lack of practice...we suffer and feel victimized by others...
2/ KHISIPTA :
A somewhat excited, scattered state where there is activity in agitation, urgency....the future pushes the present permanently into chaotic disorder ...little ethics ..one seeks to compensate for a life as pleasant as possible without worrying about the consequences on the psyche in the long term...one justifies one's desires...it is a more active state of life, limited but one does not know other levels of existence...
3/ VIKSHIPTA :
The individual has made an effort to gather the scattered rays of the mind...one begins to struggle to master and return to the base.... there is a medium level of concentration...ups and downs....but there are glimpses of the possibility of "getting out of it"
4/ EKAGRATA:
the mind is better controlled...there are fewer trips to other levels...and when this happens one knows how to get out of it..the techniques are known.
5/ NIRUDHA:
Mastery of the mind.... knowledge of happiness without cause...the "Self" is known and there is a kind of bliss in this experience. One realises that the mind vibrates on several levels and this allows one to locate oneself and the marked levels in others and thus to act accordingly.