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Episode 6: The Practice of Tolerance

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Episode 6: The Practice of Tolerance

The podcast "Mental Hygiene," hosted by Susan and Yogi Chiru, explores the yogic practice of tolerance as essential mental hygiene. It identifies three universal sources of challenge: natural phenomena like weather and seasons, interactions with other living entities including people and animals, and internal struggles with one's own mind and body. The discussion emphasizes that tolerance is not passive submission but an intelligent practice of acceptance, patience, and setting healthy boundaries. By understanding that external conditions are cyclical and impersonal, and that personal challenges are opportunities for growth, individuals can cultivate inner peace. The hosts advise aligning one's will with natural and divine timing, practicing patience in relationships and personal aspirations, and maintaining a detached awareness from fleeting thoughts and emotions to live more harmoniously.

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Welcome to Mental hygiene, a space to care for the mind like we care for the body, daily, gently and with love. Posted by Yogi Chiru and Susan Huu, this podcast brings ancient Yogi wisdom into modern life, offering practical tools to cleanse the mental clutter, restore inner stillness, and reconnect with your true self. Take a breath, you're exactly where you need to be. Welcome to Mental hygiene. Hello everyone, welcome to Mental hygiene. My name is Susan and I'm with my teacher, an incredible Yogi, Yogi Chiru here. Today we're going to speak about mental hygiene and this thing that we all have challenged with but all should have been practicing a lot of tolerance. Yes, welcome everyone. I am Yogi Chiru, practicing these mental hygiene techniques from the Rishi culture for 30 years and one of the nicest challenges we get with our mind and bodies, how to practice tolerance. It's a very good quality to have as we evolve more and more. And there's so much that we need to tolerate every single day, Yogi Chiru. We have to tolerate the weather that's outside, sometimes it's changing so much. We have to tolerate the people in our lives and more so we have to tolerate our own body, our own mind, so many challenges every single day. So from a more Yogi's perspective, how do we look at what do we need to tolerate so much every single day? So the way how the universe is engineered, the reaches, they have a Sanskrit word, "clésia" or "challenges". So there are three types of clashes in the universe. We call it "adidivica cliiche". Those are challenges or obstacles from caused by nature. You are in this universe. We are on this planet in this amazing universe. We're going to have challenges and obstacles from modern nature. So "adidivica cliiche", certain things like hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquake. Right now, you can't stop them. They're going to come. So there's no matter who you are, you are subject to this type of obstacles and challenges. So this is that's the type of. One type of clasia, challenges that we need to tolerate. Yeah, and even not even to the extreme, to the natural disaster, even just every single day, right now it's getting colder. We're all complaining. Oh, the summer is ending, winter is coming and many of you months when it's getting so hot, we're going to complain again. But really from a Yogi's perspective, this really summer winter, they come and go, it's literally nothing that we can take control of. If we're being disturbed by them, we're really just causing the mental disturbance within ourselves. So tolerating that aspect of this world that we're living in is such a big practice every single day. Yes, and the Gita Krishna tells our gentma, "Traspashasthakontayashi toksnasuka", that the happiness in this world and the stress in this world, I like the seeds. For instance, yeah. So Krishna explains that these seasons, they only last for a while. And you must, when you're going through that season, you have to learn to tolerate them. Right? Like you mentioned, right now summer is coming to an end, but a month ago, two months ago, everyone was so hot, when is it going to end? And then we get a nice fall and then winter comes and then two, three months into winter, you're like, "It's too cool. I want the summer right now." So the mind has to learn. Wait, wait, how do we tolerate it? Become Dira. Understand that they will only last for a while. So when you choose, according to where you choose to live, right? If you live close to the equator, you'll have two seasons, wet and dry. So if you choose to live further away from the equator, you'll have four seasons. Now you might say, "Well, I didn't choose. " No, no, you're karma from previous birth, and I started to finally. I got it, right? So you forgot when you chose it, but if you're living further away from the equator, you'll have four beautiful seasons. If you're born closer to the equator, two beautiful seasons. So depending on where you are, then you know, "Okay, rainy season." If you're closer to the equator, "Oh, rainy season, I have four prepared for it." You're going to get your raincoat, you're going to get your boots, your umbrellas, you tolerate it. And then when that finishes, then you have to prepare for it. Dry season. Sunshade, sunhat, umbrella, sunscreen, and then in. Right? So because life is cycle, cyclic. So when one season finish, another one starts. And if you're in this universe, you have to just go with the flow of nature. It's the finally created. So there's a time for the rain, there's a time for the dry season. If you're further away, there's a time for the snow, there's a time for the beautiful flowers to blooms. There's a time for that excessive heat. And there's a time for the change of their leaves. Right? So it's divinely created. So if you can't start, so just appreciate it. Oh, this one I love. Okay, great. The happiness. Oh, this one is the distress. Polarated. It will only last for a while. Yes. Nature. So cold. It's really nature. It's not personal at all. It's not about what I want, what I don't like. And to be able to live from that level of awareness, practicing that kind of tolerance gives us such a peace of mind, knowing that whether it's raining or whether it's sunny outside, I can just show up regardless. Yeah, yeah. And you made a nice point, right? That it's not. Remember, this universe is powerful and it's divinely created. We are visiting this universe. This universe is doing that. So you just have to go into flow. It's like, if you go to a new country, the new country has its laws. You have to follow the laws of that country. Right? Okay, you might not go with how you are brought up, but you have to follow it. And then you won't be arrested. You won't be right. Then you'll have a great time in that country. But if you go into that new country and you want to just want to break the laws, then there's a reaction for it. So when we come into this universe, we say we get embodied in this material body and we're on this earth planet. Okay. What's the intellect that's guiding the. Oh, we're part of this universe. So let's go at the flow. Then life becomes easier. We have to accept it. We. There's a saying in. Right? We will. Right? There's a saying. Yes, you have free will. If you have the karma where you can, when it's because a lot of people do it, when it's winter, they're like, they move down the floor. Right. It's on your yard. Right? They're still there for. And then when they. When it's summer, they go back to New York. So if you have the capabilities, you're. Right? It's in your karma. You have the finance through it. Great. You can vote off the best of both worlds. But many people don't have that. So if you don't have that best of both worlds, then you have to, "Okay, this is what I have to deal with. My free will only allows me to do certain things." Then I have to tolerate the seasons as they come. Mm-hmm. Beautiful. So that's the first cliche. It's the tension, the challenges that we need to tolerate from the Mother Nature. And what's the second one, Yogi Shiro? Ah, ah, ah, the. A de botica clash. So that's challenges or obstacles created by other living entities. So other living entities means anything from. Ah. To. To. To. To Allah, human being. So there's a wide array of living entities, right? From a plant, right? Sometimes you get. Oh, he's an ivy. Sometimes you get. So trees. So there are certain living entities that create tension in us. And like you say, it's seasonal, right? But when does the pollen. then people get, he is seated in a pollen caws, seasonal. Oh, this is that time of the year. For just deal with it, tolerate it, some of the trees. And then there's like mosquito season. Then there are different types of season for other that creates tension in us. And similarly, as we get the seasons from the plants and other animals, we also have seasons from other humans. And I think that's a big one which we have to learn to tolerate because every human who you meet, they've done a lot of work to get that human farm. So we know when you meet another human weight, we have a similar karma like them. We have 10 fingers, two eyes, two ears, you know, the two legs, so many things in common. But then sometimes divinity, God sends a person in our path that we really have to practice. All right. That's correct to learn to evolve and practice patience as well. Yeah, and that's in every aspect of our human farm. Once you're dealing with the human society, I guarantee you you'll have to tolerate and practice patience with someone in your family. Someone at work. Someone, you can get some friends in this. You connect with any sangha, oh, this the country club, the golf club, the disc club, that club. A lot of people you'll be able to really resonate with easily. So it's one person who you have to practice. So yes, other bodies. Then one of the where we really have to practice patience, right? Someone might say, oh, well, you know, I don't I didn't choose my family. Well, I'm not I'm not gonna have to tolerate that. I have to be patient with them. Okay, good. Well, you know, I didn't get this education. So I got this type of job. Okay, good. Okay, good. Second, you make your user free will to be in a relationship with that person through love. Oh, no, you can't say I didn't make my bed. So we know whenever two people meet, right? The love, the attraction is there. It's your infatuated that person. Right. And you connect on so many ways, right? You appreciate the person. But then as you get that infatuated naturally, physical out. And if you want to make this person a life partner, then you have to really turn that. That passionate, yeah, that passionate face has the turn into. And the only way you can turn into love is if you start to be. That person because we know no one's perfect. Everyone has their pros and cons. So anyone, if you meet your grandparents and you hear, "Oh, they've been together for 65 years. They're the best teachers for us. What will they tell you? I had to tolerate this, this, but I love this, this, this, this about that person." Right. It's beautiful to say, "Oh wow, they made it work." They saw, they were not perfect, but the love of a right, they cons. And then they appreciate each other for the pros and they'll help each other. So, you know, "Oh, I know. If you use your free will, the beat person, you made your bet. You have for them, you know, for it to turn into love, right? To that state, right? Into love, we have to then learn the art of being patient with our partner and tolerant with that person. And then that love will gradually manifest. Because the infatuation phase lasts for a while. If you meet someone and they tell you, "We've been married for 10 years. Is it worth still? We've never had that. That's not this material world. That exists only in the spiritual world. Not in this material dimension, right? So, that's why we respect couples who like our grandparents, and we respect our parents, those people who, you know, they stick together, even through their highs and lows and, you know, wow. And they're real well to practice that tolerance so that they can continue to grow that love rather than looking at a shortcomings of each other. Yeah, right. I mean, of course, we were practical, right? If the cons are just too strong, you have a boundary. If it's too exploitative, then that's only for you to be there, right? You may not be speaking. Everyone makes a mistake. Okay, get out of it. But then, no, maybe, Sarah, is sick. Again. I just like, when we're, if we're tolerating other limited to, we tolerate mosquito, but that doesn't mean like we just put our arms in front of a mosquito. So you'd be like, hey, bite me. We still put on some whatever bug repelling oil, whatever you do to protect ourselves from that. Yeah. The bunker is going to be awesome. And then you have to just have to kill it. Because there's no, in the karma, there is no negative karma to kill a living entity that's trying to, that can give you disease or kill you. So if I, Ion is coming to kill you, you don't just sit there and tolerate. No, you can kill that. There's no negatives karma for that. So, all right. So there's boundaries we have, right? It's tolerant of patients. Patients and tolerant doesn't mean you just tolerate it. No, no. You have to use the intellect as well to see, right? And then make your choice from that intellectual place, spiritual intelligence, most kicking. Totally. So that's the tolerance of within relationships, within any kind of relationships, tolerating other living entities between us and a virus, a mosquito, a fellow living entity, and especially those that's close to us. That's usually when divinity brought them to us to reveal some parts of us that we really, really need to work on. And it could be so hard, but tolerance, that's a practice. Yeah. And I like it. And I made a beautiful point when the divinity put that person there, especially our, or our coping or our work field, because whoever we see again and again and again, whether it's at the office or at home, it means you and that person, or those persons are burning up karma together. So if you see someone regularly, then that tells us, oh, wow, there's a reason why we connected on it with each other on this planet, of all eight point seven, eight billion of us. We were seeing these people again and again and again. So we weren't so, wow, divinity put that person there, especially for our evolution. So no way from it, but like you said, there must be a boundary as well. Right. So you know, when this is above the cons are too much, then I have to keep a healthy distance. Beautiful. You try to then what's the third glacier, the third challenges that we all have to tolerate? At the Atmika, we have to tolerate our own mind and our own body. Oh, we have to be patient with our self. We have to write someone gets a injury. Your body will heal itself, the body knows it, but it needs time. So a lot of times, you know, we want to do something, but then we get hurt. And yoga, right? You overstretch our muscle. You want to get that pose. You over practice over training. You have to practice with patients. Do your practice intelligently. Oh, it's not happening today. Don't over stretch patients. Maybe tomorrow. So sometimes, also our body evolves. Then you have to practice with patients. Sometimes, some poses, I didn't get them for three years. I would reprise them. But steady, steady, steady. And the journey, right? I enjoy the journey to get it. But so we have to be patient or our body will unlock into poses when we use the intelligence to know where we're at. If we over stretch, you pull up muscle. And it's not just about it. And then just, you know, in everyday life, you have a, you have a song scenario where you have to wear a high healer. something and then you twist your ankle before the ankle is swollen. You can't be upset about it. That is not healing quick. I'll use a boot at the program. That's fine, but I'll be patient with my body. My body will heal it. So we have to be patient with our body as it recovers and it's healing. We get sick. You have a virus or cold. Don't you can't fight it. It's only going to last for a while. The seasons on the last for a while. So we just have to accept, okay, I can't perform at the level that I can't book. I'm sick. And that's why I think our society accepts this. We have sick leave. I mean, never culture has, if you're if you're in a job that's humane, there is a lot of time for your sick leave. Even for pregnancy, they understand, okay, the person cannot perform at their level when a mother just gave them some extra time. Patience, right? Patience. And similarly, right? A newly wed person, a newly led wed couple. They want to have a child. They have a wedding. Nine months. So patience, right? Life is all about patience. You have to wait for nine months to have a child. Your own mind and body. So that's for the body. Then we know the challenges in our mind. Probably the biggest challenge we all experience every single day. Yes. Because our mind plays tricks on us. Our mind convinces us so many times that something is not is not is something we we convince ourselves that a scenario is one way, but it's the other way. In the Gida and the Yoga culture, Krishna tells our June, the mind can be our best friend or it can be our. It is. It is. It is just an enemy. It's our worst enemy. So the mind as a worst enemy, the mind is we want things instantly in this phase where I live in we have to train the mind. Oh, I want to manifest this desire. Wait. I need to just wait patiently, patiently, patiently. I need so many things need to be in place for us to manifest anything. In the sun, in the moon, in the gravity, you're living on the earth. So as our earth circulates the sun, we depend on so many external to co-create anything. Right. So in the Yoga culture, we are co-creators. God is the primary creator and He works through nature with our desires to manifest them. So we have to be patient. Whenever you want to desire something, there's a saying, "You can desire and God is desiring." Your desire won't be manifest unless it's in line with. Definitely. And it's God's time. Not our time. When do we want our manifest? The thing we want to manifest? No. Yesterday, we wait, we wait, "charoo." No, no, no. It has to line up with God's time. The minute is time. So we see sometimes we desire something and it didn't manifest instantly. Then you forget it. And then two, three years later. Oh, you manifested it because it was on. The minute is time. So patience is needed to manifest something. And then all of us have co-created many things. You've co-created your job. You've co-created your life, your family. You've co-created your external body. Right. I used to see a phrase, "Your body, your biography." Something like that. I think it was a phrase. When you meet someone's body, you can understand where their mentality is. Oh, totally. Whatever they do. Oh, your biography. You are in the gym every time. Your biography. You are humble. You're constantly kind, caring. Your biography. You can see certain. Patience is the key for developing these qualities. So, yeah. So whenever we want to co-create anything, as you plant your sun, kala, your desire, then it's true space and time with divinities and we are for alarm. And when that's alarm and come, we co-create something. That's beautiful. Yes. And yeah, and a lot of times when the mind is not on that level, the mind becomes disturbed when the things we desire are not coming true. And sometimes the mind also acts off the worst enemy, also become our worst critic. I've heard so many people say that I'm very self-critical. I don't have a good relationship with my mind. I say something. My mind says, "No, you're not going to do it." And from a yogi's perspective, they've really it's such a lifelong challenge to be able to really learn how do we make friends with a mind rather being taken away by those thoughts. The mind is saying, "Believing that's the truth." Or sometimes even believing, "I am my mind. I am those thoughts. How can we develop a healthy relationship, the distance between me and the thoughts, me and emotions?" And then recognizing even these thoughts, they only last for a while. When we can tolerate them, then we can live from a much, much more peaceful, higher place. Yes, that's a good point, that we're not the thoughts, we're not the emotions, we're not the mind. And we're not a body either. So when we're tolerating a body, we're also having the realization that I am tolerating this thing that's I'm being given, this beautiful gift I get of borrow and living for a short period of time. We're barren, this amazing body. How the fingers grew from when we're in our little little feet, our mother's room, little fingers coming, little toes, little odd. It's a divine dish. So when it can't do certain things, it doesn't heal fast enough, it doesn't tolerate it. And the mind, the mind and the feet, the mind is developing, it's coming in all the sounds, the seeds from our previous birds. And then when you come into this dimension, the mind is getting new information through the senses, what we see, what we taste, what it's going in the mind. So the mind can get either peaceful or disturbed. When it's peaceful, I appreciate it. Knowing that peaceful on the last hurrah. Wow, unfortunately. But it's disturbed when one of the senses is pulling us over. I didn't get my ice cream, I didn't get my coffee, I didn't get, oh, I missed my flight. It's only going to last for a while, Charoo. There's another flight. Oh, I missed the train. I'm going to be, there's another train. Oh, I missed the taxi. There's another taxi. Don't let the mind lose it. Train it. I'm not at whatever senses over pulling the mind. Oh, I didn't, I didn't always show up to see the movie in the cinema and all the seats all up. Okay, come back tomorrow. Don't lose it. Oh, the music. Oh, wow. My phone ran out of battery. I can't listen. Okay. You'll be returned to the show. You remember? So when one of the senses is pulling the mind, tolerate it, Charoo. This sense is pulling, but it's only disturbing it. It'll only last for a while. Don't overreact. Okay, I didn't get my certain type of food today. I'll get it tomorrow. I didn't see the movie today. See it tomorrow. I didn't hear my music. I'll listen to it later. Oh, you go to the essential all shop. You don't have the type of fragrance. I like my insight. Okay, next week is going to come and tolerate it. One week, this is the art of how to make your mind your best friend. Tolerate patient, patient constantly. So this is a yogic way of making the mind their best friend. Don't overreact. When the senses are pulling. Yeah, and as we were speaking last time about anger, that's how we can also stop ourselves to even get onto the train of become angry, then lose our sense of intelligence and lose of memory and do things that we are later going to regret. So be able to have that awareness and control the senses know that it only lasts for a while. By practicing tolerance, we are stopping ourselves from so much more suffering that otherwise might have just followed along. Yes. And then you are able to keep inner tranquility, inner centeredness, inner connected to higher, to your higher self and to divinity. And then you move around this world as we say, as sadhu, you know, as someone who is spiritually evolved, someone who are using their senses in moderation, their mind can understand patience and tolerance because it's a practice every day. And that's the nice thing about uncommon on a spiritual journey. You get to practice every day. It's not like these ones, oh, the senses, you wake up and the senses go to sleep. No, as soon as you wake up, the senses are coming. So it's another day. So if you made a mistake yesterday, right? No one's perfect. We made a mistake yesterday. Pick yourself up today. Today is wow, I'm breathing. I'm alive. Okay, good. Let's take this new day and let's go through. Let's see what they pull in our common and train the mind and body. Listen to your mind and body. Be patient with them. Care for them. Care for your mind, right? Mental care is needed. My care is needed. We have to cherish the body. It's only going to heat it. Sometimes some ailments heal quickly. Some long time. Yeah. And when we are able to kind of tolerate all those things within our own body and mind, it becomes so much easier to tolerate what's external, other living entities and mother nature, when we have a healthy relationship between us and the different layers of ourselves, then it becomes so much more graceful as well. That's the key. If you can tolerate your mind and your body, then it's easier to tolerate other people and tolerate the clashes from mother nature. You said it so clearly. Yes, this is the key. It starts here. Yeah, so now that we know that's the key, what are some of the practical techniques that we can do to tolerate? To practice tolerate? To practice that tolerance, but with boundaries. That's the key. The intelligence has to be there to show us where the boundaries are. I think we're pretty, a lot of humans are pretty good at, we are good at sitting boundaries to wild animals. And that's why we have our police system. We're good at to set boundaries to criminals. We're good at sitting, we have alarm systems. So we have to also have alarm systems inside to know what to do. When is one of my senses are fully? That's a good analogy. Yes. Yeah, we should set up that alarm system so that we become so alert. One of the senses is starting to take us away from this inner peace. Yeah, and so the alarm system for the yogis is our breath. As the yogis they see the breath speeds up, that's on alarm. That tells us a thought one of the senses has challenged my thought pattern. My thought patterns are affecting my respiratory system. So I have a peaceful calm. Breath is slow, peaceful, everything is fine. And as soon as one of the senses pull the thoughts calm and then my alarm system, I start to shallow breath. That's the alarm system for the yogis. Breath is the alarm. And by changing the breath in a way we get also turned back that alarm to return back to that stay where calm we are in that present moment. Yes, you can switch the alarm off by slowing down the breath. Because as soon as you start to slow your breath, your mind, because remember the alarm senses is either thinking of the future or the past. So oh my god, my music is that's in the past. It happened yesterday, one minute ago, or ten seconds ago, it's in the past. So when you bring it, okay, this is my reality. The breath slows down, the mind enters tranquillity again. So the alarm system, we can switch the alarm just by controlling the breath. How incredible that we are engineer with this beautiful breath that's always with us. We can learn to, again, in practice. If you're at this free. We have to go by our alarm system. We are engineered with an alarm system. The breath is already there. We don't connect to it enough in our culture today. Yogi Chariwuju, please guide us through a sure meditation to help us really meditate on how we can tolerate, tolerate the different challenges, the different clashes in this world from other living entity, from other nature, but more so from our own body and mind so that we can hopefully take this with us in moments of challenge. When we notice that I really am running out of patient, I'm feeling so frustrated. All those emotions that's coming up, then we can have the tools to come back to it and actually practice that tolerance. Because when is the opportunity to practice tolerance and patience? Right now. Right now. Every day is that opportunity. So yeah, so let's come into a nice comfortable seated pose. Bring the palms underneath. That's the tip of the thumbs, tip of the index fingers. Close the eyes softly. And as you close the eyes, just be aware of the breath moving in and out. And recognize your breath was with you throughout the day so far, throughout the night as you slept. For a constant companion. Identify the slight temperature change of the breath. Any common breath is slightly cooler. Outgoing breath with your body's heat is slightly warmer. And as you watch your breath recognize the inhalation only lasts for a while. The exhalation only lasts for a while. So if we can understand even or breath the in and out only lasts for a while, then the mind can learn something from the breath because the breath is connected us to the universe outside. Everything outside only lasts for a while. So we're patient with the heat. When it's summer, you get to our boundaries. You get a fan and AC, right? Stay less outside in the middle of the day. You put your boundaries, but then the mind understands, oh, this summer is only going to last for a while. And we all love spring, we all love fall. But then when we enter winter, initial winter we love. And as the winter drags on, the mind wants to lose its patience and tolerance. But just like how summer only lasts for a while, the winter only lasts for a while. When winter is over, sometimes in spring we have excess pollen. Even the pollen, the hay fever only lasts for a while, transcend. So the breath connects us to the temporary nature of the universe. We experience hurricane season, tornado season. We make that. We make the appropriate adjustment to live in the seasons. And then we have the other clashes, the other living entities. We tolerate the we put our boundaries for our house. So we don't have snakes and bears and you know, the alarm system around the homes. Maybe we have a fence that put the boundaries. And know that the animals, the only come around in seasons as well. Delerate the mosquito season. But then do your repellent. Delerate the humans in your life is always someone who divinity sends for us with a one family member, one person at work and even your spouse at first you choose to be with, we have to tolerate their cons, no one is perfect and when we do that we transform it, the love grows stronger, mutating loss to love, remember our time when you tolerate someone at work, remember our time when you put a boundary, someone at work, remember our time when you put a boundary with a friend, remember our time when you were patient with your spouse, because of that patience we were able to come out the other end in a beautiful, appreciative place. And lastly we can only tolerate others and nature if we learn to tolerate our own mind and body, it starts with the mind and body first. In your life I want you to remember when one of your part of your body got ill, if you fractured a bone, a puller muscle or something but the body will heal but you have to wait, yeah I am free, be patient with the body. I'm saying something with our amazing beautiful mind, the mind tries to drag us, the mind tries to be our enemy, pull us through one of the senses, remember our time when one of the senses was our enemy and it pulls the mind, you lost your inner peace because one of the senses pulled you. Now if the sense in our comes up to today or tomorrow, understand the agitation was only for a while and if you're getting that sense in our just bring your awareness to your breath, slow the breath down. As you slow your breath down that's your alarm, as you see the breath speeding up, bring your mind to the breath, slow it down. In the next minute I want you to breathe as slowly as possible, no strength, just inhale slowly slowly slowly slowly slowly slowly and exhale slowly slowly slowly do so for the next minute slow the breath down. you so now bring your breath back to normal breathing and gaze into the center of your arrows and see how your mind is much more peaceful and centered. The breath is the yogic alarm system. As soon as the breath gets too quick you can switch the alarm off anytime and be patient and tolerant by bringing your mind to the breath, slow it down. You have access to this alarm at all times. Take a deep inhalation, sail slowly, breath to normal. When you move the fingers slowly palms to the heart, lower the head towards your higher self towards the lower than the heart, almost lift the head, open the eyes, you know. Such a beautiful meditation, my mind is a lot more peaceful, thank you each arrow. Yes it works, we have it right here. We can be patient with our mind, patient with our body and then we can become peaceful. Use the breath as our alarm. Yes. Yeah so I hope whoever that's listening here our friends here, use this meditation. Send it to someone who you know that's been challenged by other living entity, by mother nature or by their own body and mind. The more we practice tolerance, the more we get to tapping to that inner peace by connecting to the breath, connecting with the vanity, recognizing everything around us. It's all the vanily offered, the vanily arranged and it only lasts for a while. So while we're at it, experience it, embrace it and see how we can evolve every single moment of this life. Yes, evolving to the full potential of the human, karmic conditioning, right. Let's bring up our higher self through the human form. Thank you, Ogi Cherv, for another beautiful episode of Mental Hygiene and thank you everyone for joining us. We will talk to you very soon. Thank you all for listening and thanks for sharing it to your family and friends. Thank you, Brenda, Adeon. Thank you for joining us with Mental Hygiene, where ancient wisdom meets modern life, one breath and a time. If this episode brought you peace, insight or inspiration, we invite you to subscribe, leave a review and share with someone you love. To go deeper, connect with Yogi Chervu and Susan Hoo, follow the journey on Instagram at Mental Hygiene podcast. Until next time, keep your mind clear, your heart open, and your spirit grounded. Be well, be still.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The podcast introduces "mental hygiene" as daily care for the mind, blending ancient yogic wisdom with modern life.
  2. It discusses three types of universal challenges ("klésas") that require tolerance: from nature (weather, seasons), from other living beings (people, animals, plants), and from one's own mind and body.
  3. The hosts emphasize that tolerance involves acceptance, patience, and intelligent boundaries, not passive endurance, and is key to inner peace and personal evolution.

Summary:

The podcast "Mental Hygiene," hosted by Susan and Yogi Chiru, explores the yogic practice of tolerance as essential mental hygiene. It identifies three universal sources of challenge: natural phenomena like weather and seasons, interactions with other living entities including people and animals, and internal struggles with one's own mind and body. The discussion emphasizes that tolerance is not passive submission but an intelligent practice of acceptance, patience, and setting healthy boundaries.

By understanding that external conditions are cyclical and impersonal, and that personal challenges are opportunities for growth, individuals can cultivate inner peace. The hosts advise aligning one's will with natural and divine timing, practicing patience in relationships and personal aspirations, and maintaining a detached awareness from fleeting thoughts and emotions to live more harmoniously.

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The Mental Hygiene podcast brings ancient yogi wisdom into modern life, offering practical tools to cleanse mental clutter, restore inner stillness, and reconnect with your true self.

The three types are: adhidaivika klésia (challenges from nature), adhibhautika klésia (challenges from other living entities), and adhyātmika klésia (challenges from our own mind and body).

Understand that seasons are cyclical and divinely created; they are not personal. Practice tolerance by appreciating each season's purpose and preparing for it, knowing it will only last for a while.

Recognize that people are placed in our path for our evolution. Practice patience and tolerance by appreciating their positive qualities while setting healthy boundaries when necessary.

Our body heals and evolves in its own time, and our mind can be a friend or enemy. Practicing patience helps us avoid overexertion, heal properly, and co-create our desires in alignment with divine timing.

We are co-creators with the divine. Desires manifest when they align with divine will and timing, not our own, so patience is essential in the process.

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