Do you have Monday Blues?

Most of us have Monday blues cuz it’s the start of a hustling week with repeated work? Maybe try thinking at a different perspective? Maybe this week will bring you some surprise? Maybe you will know some new people? Maybe you’ve been working on a tough project, which is drawing to an end this week?

Everything could be two sides, positive or negative, depending on how you look at it. The outside world is changing day by day, which is out of our control. What we can control is our mind, tho it’s really subtle and difficult to most of us who are living in this fast paced world. That’s why yoga was created 5000 years ago and became popular all over the world till today. Yoga offers so many tools to harness and clarify our mind. It’s a practice for our inner-self in order to better understand ourselves and develop wisdom and mental clarity to discern if what we doing and thinking are serving us positively or causing us to suffer.

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Perhaps you don’t know, the most daily activity of our mind is “Viparyaya/Misperception”. As described in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras:

Vrttayah pancatayyah klistaklistah —Yoga Sutra I.5

There are five functions or activities of the mind, which can either cause us problems or not.

Pramana viparyaya vikalpa nidra smrtayah —Yoga Sutra I.6

They are: correct perception, misperception, imagination, deep sleep, and memory.

So each mental activity can be either painful or not. Understanding the functions of the mind is important. I love these 2 Sutras because they are a reminder that yoga is ultimately working with the mind. Practicing yoga may help us master our mind to come closer to our true self.