Transcript of pod recording below.
Beautify Your Memory
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Welcome I am Angela Rosoff I am your host here at Beautify Inside Out and I'm so glad that you found your way here to me in today's podcast episode we are examining the idea of ideas and language and how we can suspend our ideas about things to feel the energy around it.
So try suspending that and let me know what happens I'd love to hear from you. I would really love to.
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Okay I have a question for you what do you think about energetics? I am talking about energetics of within people. I am a yoga teache, face yoga teacher, and I also teach people about wellness which means I'm talking about nourishment, meditation, exercise…and something that I've been thinking about a lot are the energetics.
I have a face yoga teacher training that I'm doing right now. I'm right in the middle of it it's so much fun and what I really love about it is we're outlining in about half of the the modules about the energetics of the face, the energetics of the body. How that works and we're looking at it from different modalities of western medicine, traditional chinese medicine, japanese traditional medicine, and ayurveda and within all of that, it sent me to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Because the energetics and with so many modalities thinking about energetics and how they work really well together. There's a lot of correlation around how energy is working in the body.
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But I want to read this sutra to you because, well let me just read it and then we can discuss. So the yoga sutra that I wanted to share from book 1, it's 1:43, is:
Smriti Parashudha Svarapu Suni Evarta Matra Nirbhasa Nirvitarga.
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So what this means is in Sanskrit, it means when the memory is well purified, the knowledge of the object of concentration shines alone, devoid of the distinction of name and quality.
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This is Navitarka Samadhi or Samadhi without deliberation. When I read this, you may not completely know what I'm talking about you may not understand it. But what it really means is when the memory is purified or devoid of qualities there is only the knowledge of whatever it is to be meditated upon so when you ignore the knowledge. When you ignore the sound, the word or the name of something, and also ignoring the meaning or the object or form, all you get is the idea, the energy.
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It's energetic.
It’s really incredible because with this sutra it helps me to better explain the energetics of the body, the face, the mind because it does transcend the common ideas around the nervous system.
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it's in the energetics of our body that we can understand the way a person works their matter is working in a way that is unique simply defined because they're their own they're their own person their own thing so this is a little bit philosophical but not really if you remove the name the definition of the object you just have the thin and you can discern from your knowledge. You know what is happening. What that thing does how to help it. You can detach from that emotions visceral nature with that union in your mind. Your cultural definitions that you understand you could suspend that with this kind of activity of distilling your memory.
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For me, what this sutra means is that we can know what we know, but allow everything that you see to be new again.
I have come to a better place in my life because of this practice. I've been able to move on from people who have hurt me in my life. I’ve been able to move on from all those feelings and not retain them for such a long time. This helps shape everything about how I am with that person but I can distill down and understand that that person was hurting. So then, I can better understand that union with me they're experience hurt and putting it onto me.
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It helps me understand a little bit more about why these things happened. It also helps me to have compassion for that person so I don't hold grief and have it shape me in a way like time shapes a stone as water wind washes over it, so I don't have to be shaped by that continual thought of hurt for so long. Then I don't become the person who's hurt. Then I may start hurting people or I am unable to develop as a person and realize my potential.
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So, to me having a look at this idea of purification of memories, it helps to beautify your life. Because you're you're able to function at a higher level. You're able to move on. You're able to teach others about this principle through your own action. Some things in this world believe it or not you don't need to get a certification or a diploma to master it.
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You could actually really elevate your life and your position in your career by simply purifying your memory about things. Suspending the cultural paradigms. Suspend the definition of something can be very helpful, too. So if someone was defined as being you know a real jerk or, you know, or something like that.
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By purifying your mind around it, you can suspend those definitions that others have given to him or even you yourself have given to a person and help them be released from that sort of experience.
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Thank you so much for being here.
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It helps me to reach more people, to help them beautify, to help beautify our world.
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I did get COVID last summer and that's the last time I've been sick and I am someone who grew up with chronic sicknesses a lot of problems in my health as a youngster and if you've listened to any of my podcasts about my story you will know that I really re-established myself by
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Thank you so much.
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Bye-bye-bye.
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Angela Rosoff holds certifications in yoga, face yoga, and Ayurveda Digestive Health. Holistic support for women is her focus. She is also a content creator for local and international media outlets and has been featured in the Sun.uk, Sun.us, and The New York Post. Angela teaches weekly yoga and face yoga classes, as well has hosts online courses to help women and yoga teachers beautify from the inside out! As a Healthstyle Emporium Wellness Coach, Angela shares an affordable way to work 1:1 to bring more health into the world. Check out her website: Beautify Face Yoga to learn more!