The therapeutic word attracts us like a magnet. On the one hand it has the promise of a relief for our sorrows, and on the other it makes us admit that we suffer such penalties. But let us admit that by therapeutic is understood all that is capable of transforming a negative state of our being into something more beneficial and harmonious. Then the object of therapy is very varied. It can be from the aromas, to the music, from the walks to the dance. We have plastic arts, verbal communication, substances of some kind, food or the pleasure of some drink. The display of sensitivity and quality of the senses. What I ... even the work itself or the assumption of the everyday, can be a source of therapy.
In itself, the practice of Yoga is always therapeutic, if the intention is such. Because there are people who take this practice as a model of "control" and absent from reality that instead of beneficial is quite the opposite.
Yoga, practiced with humility and love, and a sufficient dose of trust transforms the being complete, and it does so in the four slopes in which the human being develops.
Intellectual Plan
It stimulates conscious attention, freeing the intellect of what I call "noise." Then we can come to distinguish the quality of our associated thoughts and images. We do not try to push or rape them. We simply become aware of the content. That work improves memory. It enriches the quality of the intellectual world. It increases the sensitivity that helps us to apprehend the world with all the senses. It facilitates the work of learning any subject, be it intellectual, spatial or manual. It helps us to organize and use our flow of thoughts, which in the end always lead us to action. And above all, it introduces us to the access to the Void, which is where our whole being emanates.
Emotional Plan
Yoga Therapy stimulates emotional equanimity and harmony in the world of our affections. Emotions tend to "move," and push us in all directions. Thought and emotion manifest almost in unison, confusing our soul for action. By feeling greater intellectual clarity we can consciously accept and receive our emotions, and without letting them act, let them flow like water from a source. Thus we leave compulsive behaviors, and we enter into reflexive behaviors, with much more capacity for decision. We all often feel the evil influence of the terrible mill-wheel of "thought-that generates emotion-that-generates-to-it-again thoughts" and makes us vulnerable to neurosis and physical and mental exhaustion.
Body-Physical Plan
It promotes a stronger and more harmonious state in our whole physical being. Therefore the universe of matter that surrounds us. The world of everyday things no longer seems so threatening. We can achieve greater impetus. Mental clarity. Will of action and peace of mind, which translates into a highly improved quality of life. In the case of suffering chronic or temporary ailments is wonderfully effective to alleviate them.
Creative-Sexual
Before we are nothing we are sexual beings. From the cradle to the grave. We fall in love not only with people, but with ideas, thoughts, cultures, material things, and transform our world. This ability to keep the transformations afloat is generated by the sexual potency, of which the desires, the will, the vital enthusiasm, and the need to survive is basic. When they fail, we are out of sorts and unwilling to live. Boredom invades us and life is empty and dry. Yoga strengthens that capacity, and when by illness or old age our strengths fail, it finds a multitude of supports in our spirituality, from which emanates all that we are.
