How Yoga Sutra 1.1 Helps with Dopamine Addiction

I LOVE the dopamine hits of accomplishment. Social media and the modern world give us constant hits, making us all addicts to instant satisfaction. The more we get it, the more we crave it. AND right now one of my biggest learnings is that some of the greatest rewards, the things we are most working towards, take time.

If we keep chasing the quick results and every itch, we deny ourselves something deeper. To truly grow, we must be willing and ready to keep showing up, one breath at a time, with an open heart and dedicated mind.

Yoga sutra 1.1 states, “Now, yoga”— currently for me this is unfolding to mean that the practice of yoga is now — in this moment, and in every moment that follows. We cannot accomplish anything without practice, so each moment is an opportunity to practice. And through the full attention and full faith that the practice requires, we come to realize that the wholeness which we seek, is every present in the air that we breathe.

So when the mind feels like a never-ending itch, craving that next dopamine hit, don’t quit, sit with it.

 1.1 Atha yoganusasanam

Now, Yoga.

Now, the instruction of yoga begins. We must practice in order to experience yoga, wholeness, oneness.