Leadership and Yoga How Devotion Can Lead to Success
On today's solo episode, we talk about devotion. What is the difference between devotion and worship. Do we all have things that we are truly devoted to? Is devotion always good?
Today I tell you how to inspire yourself through devotion, and how it can help you find success and lead to powerful downloads. Plus, I share the story of the first and only time I passed out during a breath hold, and how all of my ideas for my upcoming retreat downloaded into my mind while taking time off in Madeira.
Timestamps:
02:34 The dangers of giving your creativity energy to instagram.
04:51 Why I feel like I've just spent an hour with a friend after listening to a podcast.
07:39 Agenda.
10:08 On the joy of working hard. Yoga retreat prep, writing and printing a book, etc.
11:00 Announcement! Our new guided journal releases.
14:49 The difference between devotion and worship: Unity, oneness vs. Separateness.
17:00 What is devotion?
21:28 Devotion and Ashtanga Yoga, experiencing Mysore in Rome and Germany.
25:43 What feels restrictive to our soul and what feels like a routine or a ritual that pushes us to grow or helps us understand life better?
31:05 The 100 foot wave in Nazare, Portugal and the devotion of surfers, an extreme example.
34:18 Almost passing out from a breath hold.
40:12 Devotion brings success.
43:00 Devotion brings (idea) downloads.
47:37 A letter of devotion to my dreams that I wrote in my journal this week. (Personal share.)
My favorite quotable moments from this episode:
"When you express and you act with that devotion, which getting back to the definition, is acting with loyalty, love and also enthusiasm… When you feel that way about something, someone, some idea, truly, even if you are having the sense that it's not working or you're not making progress, even if you don't consciously move it along, something will move it along for you."
"And that is something that I did not experience back like in college, for example, earlier on before I understood that sometimes five minutes of clarity, of truly like getting yourself in a different state of mind, can be worth more than 50 minutes, sometimes
more than five hours of having a bad attitude trying to work on something."
"Whenever you are feeling unsuccessful, it's not that you're not smart enough, it's not that you're not strong enough or not creative enough, it's that you're not focused enough."
"Being devoted is a promise to be faithful to it, to be one with it, not a separate form trying to come in and force it, but an ability to contemplate it, to know it so well that it becomes second nature to you."
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