Just experience and don’t claim it

This week’s teaching theme invites us to notice how we often think of our experiences, sensations, thoughts, and emotions as “me” or “mine.”

In Yoga, this is called asmita, or the sense of self that develops when we see ourselves as separate from what we are experiencing.

By staying with what is happening in the present moment—simply feeling, sensing, and noticing without needing to claim it as our own—we can begin to see that experiences arise, are observed, and then pass away.

We use the pranayama practice to focus on and stay witnessing the experience of what could be identified with and claimed.

The experience and the experiencer are one.

There is no sense of a subject and object anymore. The subject would be the Asmita and the pain felt would be the object.

We detach and come back to the Real Self of witnessing.

The human nature can evolve this way.

Om Shanti