These words of wisdom from Yoga Instructor Ish Moran, talking about body, mind, and breath.
What you think of as things that look simple, if you do them with your full focus and your full attentiveness are very strenuous.
The mind starts hooking into "This hurts, okay, this is uncomfortable, I don't like this". So, all of these asanas are designed to open the body to the place where you can sit comfortably. And the mind is not encumbered and focused on what's happening in the body, it may notice it, but it doesn't have to start subvocalizing about it. And the stillness that we talked about in sitting is not really the body, it's the mind. If you stop the mind chatter, the body knows how to sit still, the mind does not let go so easily.
As long as you're concentrating on your breath, and you're focusing on your breath, guess what you're mind is going o be doing? It's not going to be running. The "drunk monkey" is not going to be jumping from limb to limb. It's going to be watching the breath, and counting. Believe it or not, the mind is perfectly willing to do something. Whatever it is, you assign it, it will do that gladly.
Namaste.
--Ish Moran
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