Q. Do you teach Yoga?
A. Yes, but not Hatha Yoga. I teach Mental Yoga. In Mental Yoga, we use will and thought to stay even-minded and positive under all conditions of the world and body.
Each of the 12 methods described in my book have to do with adapting an inner stance of strength and peace no matter what problems life presents. When we cannot change an outer condition, we retain the freedom to choose our inner response. We cannot control everything in our environment or bodies, but we always have control over will and thought. This is where the battle is fought and won.
Events and our mental-emotional reactions to those events cause us to lose sight of the Omnipresent peace and wisdom of the soul. Meditation, mindfulness, affirmations, and the other methods described in this work, help us reduce our reactivity and move towards, and finally into, the permanent peace of the soul. The advanced practitioner of mental yoga remains positive, peaceful, and poised no matter what life throws.
