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11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Why I quit the New Yor... · 0 replies · +1 points

Oops, forgot the tongue-in-cheek emoticon. :) Try these extracts: http://soundcloud.com/danielcsimpson/sets/rough-g...

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - The Obama Delusion. · 0 replies · +1 points

My response to this has apparently disappeared, as have others from the thread linked by elephantjournal, which has just been linked again in my latest post. Anyone know a good stockist of tinfoil hats? ;)

11 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - George Clooney: "Disil... · 0 replies · +1 points

Bizarrely, my sceptical comments on this post have disappeared - as have others on this thread, where the author posted a link back here: http://www.elephantjournal.com/2012/01/the-obama-...

12 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - The Obama Delusion. · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks Mark - it's amazing how many people seem to assume that things like military bases and bloated "defense" budgets are just "how it is", or even "how it ought to be" (for fear some other power has them). Eisenhower's honesty was impressive though: http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.htm...

12 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - The Obama Delusion. · 0 replies · +1 points

The Ghost In The Machine? ;)

12 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Yoga Wrecked My Hash H... · 0 replies · +1 points

:) The thought of a chillum full of Phillies makes me queasy...

12 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Yoga Wrecked My Hash H... · 0 replies · +1 points

You're welcome - glad to hear it raised some cheer!

12 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Yoga Wrecked My Hash H... · 0 replies · +1 points

Very true! That's certainly been my experience in my own life - the "choice" to continue suffering often felt comforting, whereas facing it, and changing, felt alarming... Another way in which yoga's helped - to tease me out of my comfort zone and grow. All the best, Daniel

12 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Yoga Wrecked My Hash H... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well said Braja - behavioural patterns mostly rearrange themselves, unless something subtler changes. I liked this film about yoga and addiction - even if some of the subjects are substituting, the asana seems a better hit than booze: http://www.adyo.org/home.html

12 years ago @ elephant journal: Yoga... - Yoga Wrecked My Hash H... · 2 replies · +1 points

Thanks! If yoga's taught me anything, it's to learn to observe imperfection, and accept it, without that being the end of the story itself...

I like this line from Iyengar: "Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured."

A lot seems to hinge on the power to discriminate. :)

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