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Why You Can’t Focus: The Yoga Sutras’ 5 Modes
The Yoga Sutras don't say you have a wandering mind. They say the mind runs in five distinct modes — pramana, viparyaya, vikalpa, nidra...
The 3 AM Spiral Has a Sanskrit Name: Vikalpa
The 3 AM thought spiral has a technical name in the Yoga Sutras, and it is not "overthinking". Verse 1.9 defines vikalpa as knowledge...
You’re Not Lazy: Patañjali Named 9 Obstacles
Calling yourself lazy gives you one diagnosis and one remedy: push harder. Patañjali's Yoga Sūtras list nine obstacles to a steady mind, and laziness...
The 90-Second Fix for Doomscrolling, from Patañjali
Doomscrolling has a ninety-second interruption in it, and the instruction is a single line of the Yoga Sūtras — not five thousand years old,...