Plugging In, Plugging Out: Giving Your Mind a Rest
“Yoga is the ability to direct the mind exclusively towards an object and sustain that direction without any distractions” (Yoga Sutra* 1.2, translation by TKV Desikachar). In today’s modern world where our attention is pulled in multiple directions as we plug into our ipods, ipads, laptops and cellphones, this type of focus can seem like a tall order! A recent article in the New York Times ‘Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price’ (Matt Richtel, June 6, 2010) says that
