Ishan Shivanand argues that yoga and meditation aren't just for enlightenment or stress relief. They're resilience training for the mind, like resistance training for muscles, building mental fortitude and the ability to recover from pain and trauma.
Why should we practice yoga? Why should we practice meditation? Isn't yoga and meditation just for enlightenment? Isn't yoga just for stress release? And I looked at them and I said, that is an old-school way of thinking. Today, yoga is not just for enlightenment. Yoga is a way of resilience training. Just like you do resistance training to increase the size and strength of your muscles. In the same manner, you practice yoga as resilience training to make your mind more powerful, less vulnerable, and having the capability to rise up from the pain, rise up from the trauma.
