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How Yoga Works

How to contact a quality of God in meditation

Through yoga, meditation and awakenings, we can know and express the true self. Divine qualities and attributes of Spirit are waiting to come through us, but they are often blocked by the ego, the false sense of self. Discover how to express the qualities of compassion, love, kindness, thoughtfulness (to name a few) which are already a part of you.

Essential Life Skills

It Becomes a Part of You

In a deep meditation, you can contact a quality of God. Through assimilation, the essence of what you are meditating on can fill you and become your essence too. That’s how yoga works. Your ego gets out of the way and the essence you are focused on naturally becomes part of you. You can apply it in so many ways. I will show you several here.

  • Our level of consciousness, the degree to which we are spiritually awakened and enlightened, is the most important thing in life
  • The great yogi Patanjali wrote in the Yoga Sutras that life is for experience and liberation
  • As we grow from experience, the ego, the false sense of self, can grow into spiritual awareness
  • Divine attributes and qualities which Spirit would like to express through us are often blocked by our false sense of self
  • The way out of ignorance, delusion and a false sense of self is to experience Spirit and Its nature
  • Through assimilation, a quality experienced in meditation naturally becomes a part of us

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