Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.
Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
The yogi learns to forget the past and takes no thought for the morrow. He lives in the eternal present.
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asana each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.
Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind. Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach. If you are repeating what you did before, you are living in the memory, so you are living in the past. That means you don't want to proceed beyond the experience of the past. Retaining that memory is saying, 'Yesterday I did it like that.' When I ask, 'Is there anything new from what I did yesterday?' then there is progress. Am I going forward or am I going backward? Then you understand how to create dynamism in a static asana.
