Psychology/Spirituality

I was thinking today about a conversation I had with Laura on Friday, as we carpooled home from TT.  She was talking about how Yoga and Meditation in the West are being used as prescriptions for our emotionally damaged or confused psychological selves.  This idea fascinated me, as I had never pinpointed such a distinct connection.  Donna Farhi’s book “Bringing Yoga To Life” was my first exposure to this sort of specific application.  Using Yoga practically to explore, dissect, and even enhance or cure our behaviors and mindsets.  I can see this now.  At the time I read the book, I just knew I really liked it and felt it had touched the small corners of my life outside the studio walls more than any other book I had read about Yoga/Meditation/Spirituality.  I feel that the approach I am immersed in now at It’s All Yoga is similarly, wonderfully practical.  So, it brings to mind a question….Is Psychology-Spirituality?  Doesn’t Spirituality (now this is coming from a girl who attended 12 years of Catholic School) ask us to just bury those weak and spiritually endangered sides of ourselves, and move forward in faith? Just Askin.

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