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RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Do You Feel Good About Yourself?

Would you like to experience greater balance and harmony every day?

Three forces, called gunas, can impact your life in a negative or positive way. Sattvas guna, the guna of balance and harmony, improves your self-concept and opens you to an awareness of Spirit. Discover yoga practices that can help you overcome tamas guna (the force of inertness) and rajas guna (the force of mindless activity) so that you may live in sattvas guna.

Essential Life Skills, Gunas

The Yoga Progression

Perhaps you start out not feeling good about yourself — you have a destructive ego. With yoga practice it becomes a sattvic, healthy ego. Then you transcend the ego into soul experience. You begin to stay in the soul and have spiritual realization. The mirror of meditation reveals the Divine reality which created you. Your soul is revealed and the yoga progression happens. You consolidate this awareness of Spirit in the way you speak and act in the world. You live a full life as a result of becoming aware of who you truly are. 

  • When we feel good about ourselves, we tend to be happy, calm and at peace
  • In yoga we examine the three gunas, the forces of nature, that affect our lives
  • Sattvas guna is the balancing force which leads to peace and harmony. You can tune in with it through meditation and postures
  • Discover yoga practices that lead to feeling good about yourself

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