By Gurudevi Nirmalananda 

Everyone says, “Happy New Year.” As we move into the new year, hopefully you are considering what improvements you would like to make in your life. That’s what New Years resolutions are all about – how you can be happier. 

No one ever resolves to make themselves unhappy. Sometimes they accomplish this, unfortunately, but not as a New Years resolution.

You do things that you hope will make you feel good. This is true all year long, actually. Now is the time you can set your trajectory for your whole year.

Yoga has the best methodologies I’ve ever found. In minutes, even in a few breaths, you can upgrade your mood, state of mind and even your physical condition.

Here’s how it works – if you are not feeling the way you want to feel, do some yoga. One quickie is the yogic sigh. When you sigh, everyone understands what you are communicating – that you’re not feeling the way you want to feel.

But the yogic sigh is not about getting someone else to change what they are doing. It is purely and simply for the purpose of changing how you feel. Let’s do the yogic sigh…

For the new year, you could to do more sighing. The more you do, the less you need.

Of course, yoga has other breathing practices along with poses. My personal practice of yoga breathing and poses keeps my body healthy and my mind sharp. 

Yes, the condition of your body affects your mind. You know this if you’ve ever had a cold or the flu. You can’t think. One of the ways to help with brain fog is to improve your physical condition. It’s been researched and proven. Your body affects your mind.

And while yoga excels at physical improvements, it is the deeper inner experience that yoga focuses on – not simply your body, nor your mind, and not even your emotions – but the deep wordless sense of your own Beingness.

When you feel like you, you feel good. When you feel like you…