TAPAS ~ Self-Discipline | The Niyamas Series: 3/5 | The WISDOM podcast | S3 E53

<p></p> <p> </p> <p style="text-align:center;">TAPAS ~ Self-Discipline ~ </p> <p style="text-align:center;">The Niyamas Series: 3 of 5</p> <p style="text-align:center;">The WISDOM podcast  Season 3  Episode 53</p> <p style="text-align:center;"> </p> <p style="text-align:center;">~ "If we choose to walk into the fire, it is perhaps the greatest gift life could offer us." - Deborah Adele  ~</p> <p style="text-align:center;">💜</p> <p> </p> <p>Welcome to the third episode in this series on the Niyamas. Niyama is a Sanskrit word that translates as “rules, guidelines, or observances.” Niyamas appear in Hindu and Buddhist texts, and they are best known as the second limb of the eight limbs of yoga, as described in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. </p> <p> </p> <p>These eight steps act as guidelines for how to live a meaningful and purposeful life. They serve as a prescription for moral and ethical conduct and principles; they direct attention toward one’s health; and they help us to acknowledge the spiritual aspects of our nature.</p> <p> </p> <p>The Niyamas are an invitation into a radical exploration of possibility. Just how good can you feel? How joyful can your life be? Can you reveal just how amazing you are? </p> <p>My hope in sharing each of the five niyamas – is to open you further to the spiritual life that you can live in the physical ~ and the absolute beauty and wonder that you may cultivate readily for yourself.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode I cite and also quote directly from Deborah Adele’s book: <a href='http://deborahadele.com/'>The Yamas and Niyamas. Exploring Yoga’s Ethical Practice </a>in addition to other sources that I will list in the description. They if you wish to continue your study. </p> <p> </p> <p> Tapas - or self-discipline, austerity, perseverance, burning enthusiasm ~ describes a spirit of ‘fierce grace’.</p> <p> In Tapas we employ physical and mental conditioning to push against the natural resistance our body and mind present. This resistance is what generates your inner fire. </p> <p> </p