Yoga's unusual positions and breathing exercises rewire your brain by forcing new motor patterns. Pair these practices with your triggers and cravings, and they become automatic replacements for old habits.
And that's why yoga is so good, because you're forcing your body to move in ways that you don't naturally move. Yeah. Right? Where it's like, if I have you on— your legs are like in sort of train tracks, but one leg is forward, one leg is back. And then I have you bend forward and then twist to your right. You don't do— you don't just randomly do that when you're, you know, you're walking down the street. That is not a normal— that's not a normal movement. So actually what you're doing is you're rewiring your brain in the process. Yeah. Because when you, every time you are learning some new pose or, or even if you're learning pranayama, like what you're doing is you are re— you're creating a new pattern, a different pattern, right? And if you couple that with the trigger or the craving, right? Where it's like you have a re— like you use them as replacement, like a coping skill, right? You use it as a replacement behavior. You are actually, you're suddenly, you're starting to create a new connection where it's like, this thing happens to me and I do this instead.
