All quotes from
Lauren's book
We
must break with the old and take a conscious step into the new.
Deconstruct
who you think you are to reconstruct who you are to be.
Your
thoughts, and from there your perceptions, reactions, and emotions, dictate the
inner you. Good thoughts move energy to
the central channel; bad thoughts keep energy tangled in the side channels. In real yoga, how you think is as important
as how you move.
The
human body was created as an optimized machine, one that knows how to sustain,
heal, and protect itself, to replenish and revitalize itself, inside and out.
Mindset
is a brain-muscle practice. It is
training the mind to work the way you want it to, so you can feel and live the
way you dream of.
Correct
perceptions are simple to grasp – when you have them, you are happy, healthy,
successful. Incorrect perceptions, on
the other hand, are intangible mental assessments that form an experience that
makes you suffer, mildly or intensely.
Trust
is a belief that it will all work out.
It is a sign that you know you can bend without breaking.
Yoga
was never, ever intended as a tool for relaxation; rather, it’s an instrument
for energy cultivation. Yoga… is meant
to harvest and increase your natural energy. The poses… are designed to
concentrate and amplify your innate energy reserve.
Stress
is the new happy. We as a society have an almost sick obsession with stress,
wearing mental STDs like a badge of honor on our chests, a proof of our
self-worth and consistent contribution to humanity.
Most
stress and anxiety are about control.
When
you feel your life is not where you want it to be, your external experience is
simply mirroring your internal intangible body.
If we cure the outside, we heal the inside.
I Have
To often prevents you from actually being you.
When
we have I Have To, we interrupt the natural succession of events in our life,
and instead impose what our intellectual, hypersensitive modern mind thinks
needs to happen.
Your
eyes may see the world, but your mind perceives it. It is these perceptions
that create your you, your world, your reality.
Today
is happening to convert itself into the past.
Tomorrow will happen so you can live in the present. Yesterday happened so you can do it all even
better.
