# @pranakriya on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-01-13T19:34:57.000+00:00
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by Betsy Marzahn-Ramos
Executive Director, Pranakriya School of Yoga Healing Arts

 “Self-observation brings us closer to the truth. When the mind is steady, we can see a little truth. When the mind is disturbed, we can’t see anything. Growth allows a portion of the mind to remain an objective witness even in a disturbed state. The witness is always there, if one can keep a wakeful attitude in one’s self.” - Swami Kripalu

Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you felt completely out of control? Off-the-rails, reacting to everything, and feeling things spiral around and within you? Now, think back, had you let go of your yoga practice around that time, or perhaps for quite some time before? Stopped sitting quietly in meditation because that time was a luxury you felt you could not afford? Ceased practicing asana because of an injury, space constraints, time limitations, health issues, or other? Let go of the practice of pranayama because the time would fly by, day by day, and there just wasn’t a moment to stop and work on it? “Forgotten” about the teachings of the ancient texts and those of our lineage and mentors because we will feel badly about ourselves and the fact that we are not living up to them? In times like this, do you ever feel that you are living outside your body, and not in an enlightened way?

This happens to me more than I’d like to admit. As a non-profit executive director, small business owner, wife, and mom to 2 young children, it’s clear that I would be lying if I said this does not happen to me - and often. When we let the demands of modern-day life take over, and shove the practice that we know can ground us onto the back burner, what happens? (That’s a rhetorical question answered in the first paragraph!) 

Why does this happen and what do we do about this?...

Continue reading:
https://pranakriya.com/blog/honoring-swami-kripalu-on-his-110th-birthday-cultivating-and-nurturing-the-witness-as-a-householder

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