| It is amazing what a Yoga session can do for | | | | advance, or end, the existence of humanity. The |
| personal growth. I am not referring to the physical | | | | Earth is still safe, for the time being, and we can look |
| body, as much as the mindset of the average Yoga | | | | for solutions to the problems of the present. For any |
| practitioner. It is agreed that Hatha Yoga is a great | | | | of us to be consumed, with looking at our limits, is a |
| form of physical maintenance, but let's look at the | | | | form of self-created imprisonment. |
| changes that take place within the mind. | | | | Luckily, Yoga allows one to free the mind from |
| Have you ever met someone who is quick to accept | | | | dwelling on limitations. This principle of living in the |
| impending doom as the eventual outcome in all | | | | present, and focusing on solutions, can be taught to |
| matters of life? There is always someone in the | | | | a room full of students or practiced daily. Limitation is |
| crowd who will tell you how your idea will never | | | | only a perception, which we create. Athletes set new |
| work. The same person will tell you how the sky is | | | | records all the time. In professional sports, records |
| falling and the world will end tomorrow. | | | | only serve as measurements to be surpassed. |
| This negatively charged mindset knows that the Milky | | | | There are two Yogic principles to be considered |
| Way and the Andromeda Galaxies will collide in a few | | | | when finding solutions to anything. These are timeless |
| billion years. Then they theorize about how the Earth | | | | remedies for realizing the endless possibilities to find |
| will be torn apart by a black hole during the collision | | | | logical solutions that surround each of us. |
| of our galaxy and its closest neighbor. This is referred | | | | 1. Collective thought has more value than being a |
| to as "galactic cannibalism," when two galaxies merge | | | | "lone wolf." Strong philosophies and societies pool the |
| and a larger galaxy consumes a smaller one. | | | | efforts of all members and progress forward as a |
| My questions are: Why worry about possibilities that | | | | result of collective efforts. It is also helpful if people |
| are billions of years away? What will be the limits of | | | | are living within a "free society" that allows one to be |
| humankind within a few billion years? Will inter-galactic | | | | creative. |
| travel be possible? What advancements will our | | | | 2. What lies within each of us has the power to alter |
| descendants make in science, engineering, or | | | | what lies ahead of us. Each of us has ability. The |
| medicine? | | | | largest difference between two people is how we |
| There is no limit to the possibilities that could | | | | put our abilities to use. |