New Year Resolutions !!!

Its again a new year and an another chance to make new resolutions or promises. Let's see from the yoga point of view  about making resolution. Hindus and ancient yogis in east believe that GOD exist through will. Whenever a Hindu visit a temple or the practices of Tantra there is a tradition of doing 'Sankalpa' or making a willful promise or resoltuion to complete a task.

This Sankalpa is a sanskrit term for resolution, which means surrendering yourself for perfection. Every yogi that come through Indian monsatic school takes few resolution, it can be serving the yoga throughout the life or a resolution to help the needed ones.

Now with Psychology, resoltuion are the expression of desires acclerated through will power. It is not just a one day game it is something that could be chased passionately throughout 365 days. Man have different need and as Maslow had described the need hierchy theorem. A man need would grow through his satisfaction of basics need. Each man have different need in different time, but few desires need continuous effort and attention.

Patanjali has stated in yoga that man should act according to time, place and circumstances. Yoga believes life as full of dynamism, it is continuosly changing and each moment is reformin to other. Some time it happens through the will of self that yoga termed as Purusha or through nature that is Prakriti.  

So we cannot decide in the begining of a new year the whole list of coming year activity, it will wasted. A will required to fullfill the resolution. But with our limited vision and corrupted outlook with many fear and phobias, many of us fail to carry or postponed the resolution. The biggest treat in life is to overcome the fear, and that can be achieved through understanding of body and mind.

Yoga helps to unite the unknown body wisdom with the directed will of mind. It can bring wonders, and finally shower the long overjoy in the life.