Recognising opposites, and subsequently living in a way that achieves balance is difficult - both in our yoga practice and in life. All of these examples ask us to be flexible enough to do something different: the opposing view. When something isn’t going right in your job, when you’re over-anxious of world events that you have no control over, when you’re unable to achieve “that pose” in your yoga practice. When we are open towards shifting our perspective, we can create the freedom to be flexible.
To be aware and connected to our emotions is reflective of a key tenant within the yoga discipline: to live each moment with consciousness. Whilst the notion of cultivating the opposite will be different for all of us and dependent on varying circumstances, it offers the chance to pay attention to the present. The opposing view here is to practice patience and compassion with where your body is at. In the context of a yoga practice for example, you can’t change the length of your hamstrings overnight, but you can shift your reaction towards being frustrated with your body’s range. Cultivating the opposite is ultimately about changing our attitude rather than attempting to change the person or situation that makes us unhappy. This might sound all well and good, but the reality of switching your thought process when you’ve hit a rough time, is difficult. Broadly speaking, instead of thinking negative thoughts, we ought to cultivate those of kindness and compassion. He believes that whenever difficult thoughts crowd the mind, we must try to conjure up their opposites. (16) He also dismissed as unfounded the father's claim that his family had conspired against him and made up a story about the rape.In the second chapter of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, we find the phrase Pratipaksha Bhavana, which speaks of “cultivating the opposite”. (15) The evolution of the NFL has conspired against quarterbacks selected in the first round. (14) Many chances were created but poor finishing and a forthright penalty appeal that was turned down conspired against them. (13) In his eyes, he did not fail he was conspired against and was therefore entitled to compensate for his disadvantage by bending the rules.
(12) But, once Napoleon has returned home, he discovers that fate has conspired against him. (11) I can feel the distant rumble of thunder on the horizon and I'm sure that events are conspiring to ensure that I'll be well and truly wound up by the end of the week.
(10) Each character is linked by more than just work, as hold-ups, corpses, missing children, affairs and other events conspire to alter their lives. (9) Occasionally events conspire to imbue these great-leader impersonators with great symbolic power. (8) Those who are members of the Church and yet conspire against her commit a serious and brutal crime. (7) This angers a cabal of evil businessmen, who somehow are profiting from the bad times, so they conspire to bring the new agency down.
(6) The circumstances conspire to make a sexual relation or a future together impossible. (5) Currently, conspiracy to defraud is a common law offence that requires that two or more individuals conspire to commit a fraud against another. (4) But racing, in particular, has often suffered from people who deliberately conspire to fix results, and those cheats now know that their days are numbered. (3) As the scenery switches from Argentina to Chile to Colombia, events conspire to change our hero, as we know they will. (2) Sarah is not merely a woman who feels like a bad mother, she is a bad mother, or least she is until circumstances conspire to jolt her into reality. (1) Fate and circumstances often conspire to change the direction of our lives for better or worse.
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