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A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body
A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body
The Australian Monday 15th September Front Page: “It’s not untreatable. It’s not inevitable. Preventing a national tide of dementia.”
A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body… The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali give an insight into how to achieve this.
The usual (or common) idea is that Yoga sutras are mostly about a healthy body, but in fact Patanjali concentrates on the healthy mind and how it can come to harmony and realise its essential nature leading to peace and bliss. He identifies the obstacles allowing us to be on the lookout and overcome them.
In sutra 1.33 Patanjali says:
“By cultivating an attitude of friendship toward those who are happy, compassion toward those in distress, joy toward those who are virtuous, and equanimity toward those who are nonvirtuous, lucidity arises in the mind.”
Philippa has been studying Practical Philosophy since she was 21 yrs old and has always said it got her through her Uni finals.
She has enjoyed a diverse range of careers including wine salesperson, photographic studio manager, caterer, yoga teacher trainee lecturer. She has also cared for her mother with dementia.
She enjoys cats, needlework, Sanskrit and people. She attributes a positive sunny nature to this diverse range of interests and adaptability.