Change Your Destiny: Part Two
Is it possible to change your destiny? Join Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian, founder of The Yoga Hour, for the second part of this series as she explores the wisdom of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, revealing how the tools of yoga possess the key to transform your life trajectory.
Ellen Grace O'Brian (Yogacharya O’Brian) is an acclaimed teacher, award-winning author, and minister who has served seekers of spiritual enlightenment from all walks of life for over forty years. She has published several books and audio programs about meditation, mindfulness and spiritual living, offering a refreshing and authentic voice that makes timeless wisdom accessible to the modern mind. Through her teaching and publications, Yogacharya O’Brian helps people learn to live from the inside out with practices and insights for developing life-transforming skills to cultivate a spiritually awakened, fulfilled life.On her author website, EllenGraceO’Brian.com she offers many online programs. Watch her wisdom talks on her YouTube channel, Ellen Grace O’Brian. She is the founder and spiritual director of The Center for Spiritual Enlightenment and the founder and spiritual director of The Yoga Hour.
THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: What a deep and inspiring conversation with Yogacharya. I very much appreciate the treasure of having a scientifically based road map for changing the trajectory of our life through steady practice of Kriya Yoga meditation and samadhi. She says that if we understand how the mind works, then we can change the patterns in the mind and find liberation from those patterns that don’t serve us. The science of yoga shows us that we can experiment in the laboratory of our own lives. Yogacharya's description and explanation of the three Kriya Yoga practices - self-discipline, self-study, and self-surrender - will bring renewed life to my practice as I am reminded how following this map allows me to quiet the mind enough to experience samadhi. I highly recommend listening to this episode.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: The topic of “Change Your Destiny” turned out to be a good platform for Yogacharya and I to discuss the three practices of Kriya Yoga (self-discipline, self-study, and self-surrender), as well as the importance of having a steady meditation practice and practicing dispassionate non-attachment. As she mentioned, a steady meditation practice helps us to bring more sattvic energy, or illumination, into the mental field, and the practice of self-discipline allows us to arrange conditions so that we are living in the highest way. It strikes me that if we have a steady, regular meditation practice that changes the climate of our minds, and can practice Kriya Yoga (self-discipline, self-study, and self-surrender), it would change so much about the way that we live in the world that it would likely transform our life trajectory (our destiny) as well.