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Your Posture Can Alter Your Mind

by Sadhguru Jaggi

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Sadhguru explains the significance of the posture he sits in and what it does to one’s energy system. This mindfulness of your posture also translates to other functions in the body like breathing, leading to a more relaxed yet empowered sense of self.

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Why is that wherever you go to you know kind of preach or talk about stuff,

You sit in a particular position,

You know,

With sandals removed from your left leg,

Left leg up and right leg on the ground intact.

Is it your style or is it the way that one person should sit?

What is called as Hatha Yoga,

The physical postures is,

It is about manipulating the body in such a way that you get to a certain geometric perfection that your geometry is aligned with a larger geometry of creation so that you're always in sync,

You're never off.

And how balanced you are,

How clearly you see things and how well you do things,

Simply depends on how much you are in sync with everything else around you.

Whether it's people or trees or life or just space,

Are you in sync with it or not,

We'll decide how smoothly,

How friction-free is your function in the world.

Now I don't sit like this all the time,

Only when I speak.

How I am sitting,

If I have to explain,

There are many aspects to it.

One simple aspect is the left heel.

The left heel is… there is a point on the left heel that today the medical sciences are calling it as the Achilles,

You heard of that?

You heard of the man?

Achilles?

You heard of the man?

You saw the movie?

You didn't see the movie?

Troy?

You didn't see?

Tch,

Very innocent boy.

So you put your Achilles to what is called as Muladhara or the perineum in your body.

If these two things touch,

Many aspects are cleared out in you for that period of time.

Many aspects means your thoughts are clear,

Your emotions are out and there is a very clear perception of what's happening around you.

You heard that Achilles was killed because an arrow was shot to his heel.

You don't believe if somebody hurts your heel,

You will die,

Isn't it so?

But Achilles died that way and there's another person who died that way in India way before him.

Yesterday was his birthday,

Krishnajanmashami.

He also died this way.

What this is trying to tell you is they were killed in an expert way,

Not just slitting your throat or breaking your head,

But just putting a point at the Achilles so they had to die.

So there is a certain system,

Energy system in the body,

If that point of Achilles is in touch with your Muladhara,

When you sit like this,

There is a certain balance that you don't take any sides.

See,

All of us have our own opinions,

Ideas,

Ideologies,

Stuff,

Our own experiences of life.

Your own experiences of life and imprints that you have taken in your mind influences everything that you see.

You like this person,

You don't like this person,

You love that person,

You hate this person.

All this is because you're constantly taking positions of your own.

But if you really want to know life,

The most important thing is you don't take any position,

You're willing to look at everything fresh every moment of your life,

Absolutely fresh every moment of your life.

This is very difficult for people to understand.

People who have been with me for thirty,

Thirty-five years every day,

They are with me,

Working with me,

Doing so many things.

I still don't have a single opinion about them.

Only when I did need to do some work,

I may look at their competence and stuff,

But I don't have a single opinion about anybody who is around me for such a long time.

By now you should have formed your opinions,

But I don't because that is the essence of spiritual process that we're constantly looking at every life as a possibility.

There is of course a distance between possibility and reality.

Some will have the courage and commitment to travel that distance,

Some will not have the courage and commitment to travel that distance.

But every life is a possibility.

If you want to keep that possibility open,

You never ever form an opinion about anybody of any sort.

Good,

Bad,

Ugly,

You don't form these opinions,

You simply look at them right now.

How are they right now?

This moment,

That's all that matters to me.

How you were yesterday is not my business.

How you may be tomorrow,

Let's see.

Tomorrow must be created,

Not concretized right now,

Isn't it?

It's a certain geometry of the body.

If you manage the geometry of the body well,

You must… I'm telling you,

Right now people… the western cultures are going about propagating yoga is another stretching exercise.

Instead of that you can do pilates,

Instead of that you can do boxing,

Instead of that you can play tennis.

See,

If you want to be just fit,

Go run somewhere,

Climb a mountain,

Play tennis,

Do something.

Yoga is not about fitness.

Fitness is just one consequence.

The important thing is to get the right geometry of life,

Because physical universe is all geometry.

Now this building is standing here,

Whether how long it will stand,

Whether it will fall on our head today or will it stand for a long time,

Essentially depends on how geometrically perfect it is.

The same goes for the body,

The same goes for the planetary system,

The same goes for the universe,

The same goes for everything.

Planets… planet earth is going around the sun,

Not with a steel cable attached to it,

Just perfection of geometry,

Isn't it?

If little off geometry if it happens,

It's gone forever.

And that's true with you also.

If you go off your fundamental geometry,

You're gone.

It's very important at an early age,

You do the right things to bring a right sense of geometry.

Now,

You become competent to go through life.

Those people who are thinking only good things should happen to them,

Obviously they're unfit for life.

Because if you do not know how to go through harsh situations well,

Joyfully,

Then you will avoid all possibilities,

Isn't it?

You will avoid all great possibilities of life simply because you want to avoid little bit of difficulty.

Only when you're geometrically in a certain state of congruence,

Then you're willing to go through any situation no matter what it is.

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Zee

July 17, 2025

Thank you 🙏

Anne-Marie

August 3, 2022

I could keep listening to more of your talks, but now I need to sleep! 😊❤️

Blackie

April 13, 2022

Wow.. Incredible!

Megan

July 18, 2020

When you don’t like the state of things, try taking a posture other than your own. 🤍

Katie

July 12, 2020

Thank you dear teacher. ☮️💖🙏

Dianne

July 12, 2020

Thank you Sadhguru 🙏🏼. Sometimes it is the seemingly simple things that we do that are most difficult to understand. The young folks who listen to you today will be most fortunate,

Karen

July 11, 2020

So much wisdom packed into a few minutes. I will listen to this again and again, as I smile hearing the absolute truth in what you say.

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July 11, 2020

Always enjoy his wisdom 🙏🏼🥰

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July 11, 2020

A bit short. I love to listem to the whole talk by Sadhguru. Thanks anyway.

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July 11, 2020

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