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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
The practice of yoga is to nirōdhaḥ the chitta vritti, to stop the mental vortexes–or at least stop being so caught up in them. Through this constant practice, you separate yourself from, then gradually shed, and finally cease to be your ego.
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Sutra 1.12
You're not your fucking khakis--or your mental vortexes.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
No amount of longing or nostalgia can bring back the past and no amount of grief, regret, guilt, shame, or anger can change it, but, if you’re like most people, you spend a lot of time in the realm of the woulda-coulda-shouldas, ruminating on everything you’ve done and all that's been done to you.
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Sutra 1.11
Memories are things that have been experienced but not forgotten.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras - Samadhi Pada - Cosmic Consciousness 1.10 When you sleep, you dream, but not the whole time. After a deep sleep, you have a notion of having rested in nothingness.
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Sutra 1.10
When you sleep, you dream, but not the whole time. After a deep sleep, you have the notion of having rested in nothingness.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Listen for the infinite universal sound to hear insights from your inner voice. Within you are sacred verses, flowers offered to Oneness.
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Sutra 1.9
The intangible realm can be a source of knowledge via abstract thought and imagination.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The only misconceptions that are important in yoga are mistaking the temporary for the eternal, the impure for the pure, pain for pleasure, and the ego for the Self.
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Sutra 1.8
Misconceptions come from mistaking one thing for something completely different.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Where can we find evidence of Oneness?
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sutra 1.7
Knowledge of the truth is found in sacred texts, but also by direct perception, as well as inference and reflection.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There are five kinds of mental vortexes...
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sutra 1.6
...knowledge, misconceptions, imagination, sleep, and memories.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
To your ego, some of your mental vortexes are problematic, others are not. They’re unproblematic if you’re content. They’re problematic if you’re bothered. From the perspective of the practice of yoga, whether they’re problematic depends on if they keep you bound to your ego identity...
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sutra 1.5
Observe your mental vortexes, problematic or unproblematic, as five kinds...
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
You are a tiny particle of divine consciousness and it is through your individual consciousness that the loving awareness of the universe observes itself. But, there’s a paradox in this...
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sutra 1.4
Otherwise, your identity is the vortexes.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Be who you really are.
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sutra 1.3
Then you can be who you really are.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Stop being so caught up in cyclones your ego stirs up.
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Sutra 1.2
All you have to do is stop being so caught up in cyclones your ego stirs up.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There’s no time like the present to discover what unites every form of separation, down to the tiniest atomic particle, in Oneness. This is the philosophy and practice of Yoga.
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Sutra 1.1
Now's the time to experience what unites everything in the Universe down to the tiniest atomic particle.
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alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social @alexisbadenmayer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There’s no time like the present to discover what unites every form of separation, down to the tiniest atomic particle, in Oneness. This is the philosophy and practice of Yoga.
patanjalisyogasutras.com
Sutra 1.1
Now's the time to experience what unites everything in the Universe down to the tiniest atomic particle.
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