Category Archives: Yoga Psychology

Q & A with Swami Satchidananda: How to Overcome Powerlessness

Question: How can I overcome a feeling of powerlessness and change my life?

Answer: Put in some power! The reason you feel powerless is because there‘s not enough vital energy in you. Pranayama practice will fill you with more vital … Full Story

Questions & Answers with Swami Satchidananda: Overcoming Disappointments

Q: How can I rid myself of expectations of others and the resulting disappointments? Am I really just disappointed with myself for allowing the attachment or is it lack of self-respect which merely manifests itself in the form of … Full Story

Questions & Answers with Swami Satchidananda: How to Deal with Difficult People

Q: You have said that until we forget, we have not completely forgiven. How can I forgive and also forget something bad that someone does to me if they continue doing it and I’m constantly reminded of it?

A: If … Full Story

Overcoming Fear, Anger, and Depression

By Swami Satchidananda

Fear, anger, and depression are all related. It all starts with fear. You want something and you become afraid of not getting it, or you get it, and you become afraid of losing it. There is a … Full Story

Is Pain Inevitable?

By Beth Hinnen

In this final article of a series looking at several of Patanjali’s sutras, we come to quite an amazing one buried in the Second Pada: pain that has not yet come is avoidable (2.16). This … Full Story

Be Unaffected

Emotions are part of the mind and are one part of its functioning. According to Raja Yoga, there are several different ways the mind functions: the analytic mind, the feeling mind, the thinking mind and the desiring mind.