Your Mission Statement

What is Tarka?

Perhaps one of the most important parts of a strong spiritual practice is the practice of tarka or reflective journaling. Reflection upon your inner and outer life is essential if you wish to progress along the path. These reflections on your life can help you see your mind more clearly. Your relationship to yourself, the world, and others is revealed in each journal entry. We can sometimes be blinded by our own beliefs or trapped in a cycle of thinking that is unhealthy for us.

Tarka can help us to illumine the way before us, discard old beliefs, and change our attitudes and ways of thinking.

Tarka is designed to help you reflect upon your life and examine your mind so that you may travel the path of enlightenment with greater ease and harmony.

Today's Tarka Practice
There are many reasons you may find yourself practicing yoga. Perhaps you came to yoga to belong to a community of like-minded people. Maybe you came to yoga to heal physically and / or emotionally or maybe you just love the way your body feels after a strong and powerful practice or a slow, more restful practice. Some people prefer power yoga, others restorative and everything in between. Many people like to create a balanced practice and do some very challenging practices on some days and more yin based practices on other days.

Today, I want you to reflect on why you practice yoga? If you could write a yoga mission statement for yourself, what would it be? For example, your mission statement might be something like this: I practice yoga in order to feel a sense of connection and community with others who share my passion for serving myself and serving all of life.

Go ahead and write your mission statement in your journal and please feel free to share your mission statement in the comments box below.

Shanti, Swami K