use of yoga in life

Stress :is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness” – Richard Carlson

"Attitude is all". It is not so much the circumstances that we are faced with in our life. Rather the attitude and responses we have to those 

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   Embrace change. Change it seems is the only certainty. The Western world is undergoing enormous change economically, socially and politically, and along with this change comes anxiety and a reluctance to accept ‘the inevitable’. Why? Because we have been accustomed to enjoying a particular life style and the ‘freedom’ that money can buy.
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   Reflect upon the progress made throughout history. Now we are being challenged symbolically in a way that has not been seen since perhaps the civil war. As Pluto made its transit once again over Thanksgiving, it retraced a cyclical patterning that lasts around 17 years promising transformation and change away from the status quo. Many of us have not in this lifetime experienced this intensity before that is linked to fear. Fear of what we have and may lose, or fear of what we don’t have and want. As it grows, it breeds anger and resentment in people that wrecks havoc emotionally, within the individual and those that surround them.
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   Appreciate human progress. Even if we look back a mere ten years to the technological advances that have been made in that time, it is truly amazing. On many levels our lives are easier, for example paying bills online and accessing all kinds of information at the push of a button, yet there are always two sides of a coin. The vast array of technological advances do not seem to satiate mans’ innate desire to want more, and time that could be saved is gobbled up with computer games and a host of other distractions.
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   Understand that in Yoga and Ayurveda, sensory input is considered as food of the mind. Un-checked, it can lead to buildups of toxic waste that can erupt into stress, anxiety or some form of disease. The desire for wanting more has resulted in millions of people who have built incorrect breathing patterns that don’t eliminate all the carbon dioxide from the body. We are living off of the borrowed next breath in the same way that we as a society are living off borrowed credit. The reality of that is beginning to sink in at this time of change and the entire household will be affected by any emotionality this brings.
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   Be harmonious with yourself. We live more in our minds than anything and so it is important to feel like we are in control and have everything we want……. even if we don’t. For this we need to be content and create a lifestyle that is harmonious. A tranquil environment is a good investment. I used to say that breathing correctly is the main area that we need to focus on. Now however I believe we need to create a lifestyle that supports any techniques or practices we chose to adopt. Simplifying one’s life and being mindful of what we take in through the senses is a powerful technique long term because we can become much more aware of the emotional thought patterning that the mind generates and know that there is something beyond it. This is because we have made space to think the thought that we never had before and this gives us an opportunity to solve any problems we may be facing. Discernment is key also because we need to know what is poison for us and makes us feel threatened, resentful, fearful and angry.
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   Be mindful of what you take in through the sense organs of the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.
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   Simplify your life and enjoy quite times and simple pleasures.
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   Strengthen your character daily.
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   Exercise and try to get out in nature.
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    Make sure that you download the stress from the mind before going to bed. This may include things like taking a warm bath, reading, massage, restorative yoga, breathing techniques and meditation.
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    Make time for doing something that you like and makes you feel good about yourself.
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    Remember it is not the event that causes the stress but the reaction of the mind to the event. Change that and you eliminate the stress. Attitude is all.

MBA's Mission:mind body awreness project

MBA’s mission has 4 components:

1. DIRECT SERVICE
At MBA, our core purpose is to inspire and awaken the intrinsic value of young people. We accomplish this through groundbreaking, mindfulness-based direct service work that empowers youth with the tools and competencies to overcome trauma, transform negative behaviors, and find real freedom from the inside. MBA’s curriculum provides at-risk youth with concrete tools to reduce stress, impulsivity and violent behavior and increase self-esteem, self-regulation and overall well-being. MBA’s classes are based upon a proprietary synthesis from best practices in meditation, movement arts, group-process modalities, peer counseling, and social and emotional learning models. Our goal is to give at-risk youth access to transformational tools and competencies in a language and through metaphors relevant to their contemporary urban experience. MBA is at the cutting edge of developing evidence-based mental training-driven rehabilitation interventions in youth vernacular: training that is relevant to youth’s lives.

We also serve those who serve youth by providing trainings, workshops, and facilitation to youth service providers, Probation staff, and other agencies to help them overcome their own trauma and internalized oppression, develop mindfulness and stress-reduction skills, and augment emotional competencies.

2. RESEARCH, EVALUATION & DISSEMINATION
MBA performs extensive evaluation of our interventions to develop the evidence-base for the efficacy of our programming and mindfulness-based interventions in general. We also work to disseminate information about our research, and other research in the field to build a national case for the use of mindfulness and emotional competence-building tools with at-risk and adjudicated youth. Current research priorities include a pilot project with the Pediatric Advocacy Program of Stanford Medical School to measure the effects of our new daylong mindfulness intensive for youth in long-term detention. To our knowledge, the program, which is currently being piloted in San Mateo County, represents one of the first instances where a juvenile probation department has allowed intensive/retreat-style mindfulness practice into one of their facilities. MBA is also currently partnering with Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland (CHRCO) on a pilot project that utilizes MBA’s intervention as a prescription for anxiety and insomnia for youth in detention. This partnership represents the first time adolescent physicians in the U.S. juvenile probation system have written formal medical prescriptions for mindfulness training.

3. ADVANCING THE FIELD
MBA advocates for the development of the new field of mindfulness-based rehabilitation through education, advocacy, and coalition-building work regionally and nationally. Locally, we work to strengthen the coordination and supports between youth-service providers to help make the sector more robust and create a stronger safety-net for the youth we serve.

4. NEW NATIONAL MODEL
MBA is actively positioning itself to become a new national model for adapting mindfulness and emotional literacy programming to the needs of at-risk, gang-involved and incarcerated youth. In 2008, MBA’s Alameda County Incarcerated Youth Initiative was one of 20 projects from a pool of 140 applicants advanced to final round funding consideration for $1 million in funding from the Local Funding Partnerships of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a national competition that seeks to discover innovative healthcare models serving under-resourced communities that the foundation believes have the potential to become new national models. The Johnson Foundation said that, with respect to program innovation, MBA’s model was “off the charts.”

In 2010, MBA formed a partnership with the National Council on Crime & Delinquency and Colorado State University with the goal of conducting some of the first longitudinal research on the effects of mindfulness-based programming on at-risk, violence-prone youth.

Images (top to bottom): MBA class, San Mateo Youth Services Center (2010); MBA instructor Amutabi Haines; MBA instructor Ripa Ajmera teaching; Youth in MBA’s program, San Mateo County Youth Services Center (2010); Youth in MBA’s program after being released from detention (2008)

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