In today’s world, feeling tired has almost become normal. Many people wake up fresh but lose energy by afternoon, and some feel most awake only late at night. This lack of steady energy affects not just our work, but also our mood, focus, and ability to enjoy life.
Sustaining energy is not about quick fixes or caffeine. It’s about building the right foundation — through food, movement, sleep, and emotional balance. When these four come together in harmony, the body supports us with consistent energy through the day.
The Journey of Yoga From rustic forest hermitages to downtown Yoga Studios
In some of the early texts, the yogis that are mentioned are not necessarily the clean-living, health-conscious and physically toned practitioners we would recognize by that word today. The holy itinerants who practised yoga, generally known as sadhus, seem to have been raggle-taggle gypsies who wandered the earth freely, unshackled by convention and in pursuit of spiritual ecstasy, which they would get wherever they could find it.
Nothing works like practising patience when dealing with difficult people or situation. To practice patience is to hold back when you want to say something nasty or feel overpowered by someone's irritable presence. But holding back creates a pressure-cooker situation where you keep stuffing anger within.
Sankalp is a personal vow - a firm resolve to achieve something or to follow a specific path. An understanding of the motivation behind your "Sankalp" is necessary. If your resolution is only dealing with cosmetic changes in your life, it may not uphold the work, time, and energy needed to accomplish the same. However, if a Sankalp's inspiration is rooted in a yearning to change your life for the better, then all the grind needed to see through your resolution seems worth it.
Let's start with the word itself. Sankalpa comes from two Sanskrit roots: sam and kalp. Together, they mean "to bring together, to form, or to arrange."
But it goes deeper than that. In the Bhagavad Gita, Sankalpa is described as "the mind arranging reality into a pattern through subtle volition." Read that again. It's not just about setting a goal or forming a habit. It's about becoming the fundamental organizing principle of your own consciousness.
The most common question in wellness circles isn't about flexibility, strength, or even overall health. It's about weight. And the answer seems obvious, almost patronizingly simple: eat less, lose weight. But if you've ever tried to manage your weight—truly manage it over months and years, not just for a few disciplined weeks—you know the reality is far more complex.
Why we fracture life into silos like "wordly" and "spiritual." This segregation creates a deep distortion, limiting our time and ability to find genuine fulfillment. True spiritual living means uniting these fragments. We must embrace mindfulness as the essential quality of consciousness that allows us to integrate our values, our behavior, and our breath into one complete, conscious experience.
Total well-being rests on seven interconnected pillars—nutrition, movement, sleep, stillness, emotional balance, human connection, and joy. Each supports the others to create harmony between body, mind, and spirit. By nurturing all seven, we cultivate resilience, clarity, and fulfillment, transforming health from a goal into a conscious way of living.
A positive mind is not about ignoring problems but building inner strength to face them calmly. Through physical health, emotional control, purposeful living, and self-reflection, one raises their baseline happiness. True positivity emerges from self-mastery—choosing steadiness, awareness, and dignity over impulse, and finding lasting peace from within.
In today’s world, feeling tired has almost become normal. Many people wake up fresh but lose energy by afternoon, and some feel most awake only late at night. This lack of steady energy affects not just our work, but also our mood, focus, and ability to enjoy life.
Sustaining energy is not about quick fixes or caffeine. It’s about building the right foundation — through food, movement, sleep, and emotional balance. When these four come together in harmony, the body supports us with consistent energy through the day.
The Journey of Yoga From rustic forest hermitages to downtown Yoga Studios
In some of the early texts, the yogis that are mentioned are not necessarily the clean-living, health-conscious and physically toned practitioners we would recognize by that word today. The holy itinerants who practised yoga, generally known as sadhus, seem to have been raggle-taggle gypsies who wandered the earth freely, unshackled by convention and in pursuit of spiritual ecstasy, which they would get wherever they could find it.
