YOGA AND CREATIVITY ARE ALIKE IN MANY WAYS

About half a year ago I heard two interesting phrases about practising yoga. I do not practise yoga, so I replaced the word "yoga" with "creativity", and it became even more interesting. Perhaps you can replace "yoga" with whatever interests you, and it will fit too.

The first phrase:

"After a yoga master’s brilliant talk at a seminar, participants came up to him and asked: "You explained everything so beautifully, but we did not understand when it is better to practise yoga – in the morning or in the evening?"

The master answered: "If you practise yoga, you practise yoga."

I understand this as "if you practise yoga, you practise it all the time".

To learn something to a good level, it is not enough to do it at a specially set time. You have to weave it into the fabric of the day. If you are learning a foreign language, you need to integrate it into as many other activities as possible.

If for an hour a day you learn to breathe correctly, but in the 8-hour work rush you breathe any old way, then you train breathing any old way more often.

If in creativity classes a person learns harmonious composition, but during the day throws things around and litters the street, then they learn mess more often than harmony.

Yoga, creativity and various spiritual practices are done not to feel good during the practice, but to learn to do everyday things through the prism of yoga, creativity, some religion, or ideology, or...

Being able to stay in a creative state while standing in a queue, in a traffic jam, walking down the street, washing the dishes, talking... – that is the true goal of creative exercises.
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The second phrase I heard about yoga is shorter and fits easily into the first one:

"When you rush to a yoga class, are late, fuss and get nervous, you are already doing everything wrong."

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