Moving Beyond Fear Through Yoga
By Sanjib Mukherjee
Even if there’s only a 5% chance of an event happening, a yogi will always stay true to his or her beliefs and never change their principles in life. Courage is what takes us to the edge of our perceived limitations, but it’s faith that keeps us there and sees us through to the end. The stronger your faith in your own abilities, the further your innermost fears diminish.
It is only by self-experience that we truly confront our fears, and only through supreme self-effort, that we can abolish them once and for all. Our sense of low self-esteem and lack of faith quite often undermines our abilities to overcome challenges presented before us. Most people wait until they feel confident enough before tackling a difficult situation, yet the irony is, that once we overcome a particular problem, our self-esteem rises to newfound levels.
Confidence then stabilises within our minds until the next big “fear” comes along, and thus, the process of overcoming challenges starts all over again.
To illustrate this point, there is a story of two young students taking a late night walk alongside on top of a narrow cliff. During the long dark night, neither of them could see where they were going, yet they merrily strolled along until the early morning, where they found a spot to the camp. The next day, once fully awake, they realised the cliffs were over 100 feet high, and the path they travelled only measured a few centimetres wide. Looking down, they were unable to make the track back in sheer fright of the potential fall they may incur. So why were these boys fearless the night before but paralysed in the early morning?
Quite simply, once they could see the problems ahead, their minds began to question whether they could accomplish the task in front of them, and thus, their lack of faith in their own abilities had paralysed them with fear. The only way to now remove this fear would be to make the walk once more. Removal of fear only happens after the supreme self-effort has taken place, and not before.
The stronger we believe in ourselves, the less daunting any fear becomes. Pushing through mental boundaries moves us from our conditioned conscious mind, to the unlimited all-powerful unconscious mind. The further we delve into our minds, the more we realise our infinite capabilities, and the more fearless we become. The goal of yoga is to unite our body and mind to our soul, and thus, exist in a state of pure consciousness where faith becomes our very nature. Consequently, fear becomes totally removed from our very existence.
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Hii sanjib,
i like this post .Specialy
The stronger we believe in ourselves, the less daunting any fear becomes.
its too good.
thanks
Leepikaa
Awesome post …loved it ! Keep writing
thx sanjib, nice one!!!
well said “moving beyond fear”- that is what we need to do through yoga
keep writing
w8in 4 ur next post
Munni Khan
Absolutely right Sanjib….I believe Yoga is all about self introspection.
As rightly quoted by You…”The goal of yoga is to unite our body and mind to our soul and thus exist in a state of pure consciousness where faith becomes our very nature, and consequently, fear becomes totally removed from our very existence”. Yoga is an absolute Bliss…if practised regulary.
Very Motivational writings….Great going Sanjib!!!
Yasmin
I have practiced this in life. Many times I have been petrified when venturing on a new project. After finishing the project you just feel very big and move on to bigger things!!! the article is fantastic.
Wonderful…Way 2 go!
Mahadevi
hey very true.. beautiful example. ..nice one
Beautiful article on Moving Beyond Fear through Yoga, Sanjib.
As Frank Herbert says, “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
I belive that Fear is only an anticipation that we make before doing sumthng that the work will be completed..shall i be successful in it,what others will think…these inhibiton we built before actually doing our action…& when we DO t …these Fear Goes…!!!!Absolutely agree with ur views.
You are doing a great service to us by writing all these motivating and beautiful articles…. may god bless you.
Thank you so much for all your kind words..:)
I feel very relaxed after reading all your articles thanks again
hey very true…
Feeling motivated after reading ur article…
W8in for ur next post!
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@Honey…hahaa..yup..agree
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please tell me how !
ja ghat mein hain vaasna ta ghat mein hain bhay ja man main nirvasna so sada rahein nirbhay.thanks for sharing knowledge. god bless u.
there is nothing true in the world, everyone is true according to there perception.
similarly, there is no sin as every sin carries a beauty within.
faith in supreme simplifies all situations & thus we r thru. only add on over here is the consciousness what u have said has to b sustained in all situations of good or bad , success or failure …. in oder words NEUTRAL .. den life actually feels like journey for a yogi….