Yoga as Resistance by Dr. Stacie Graham

Author:Dr. Stacie Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786786418
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2022-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Mindfulness of Thought

In this chapter, I have offered a perspective on how education systems have primed us for a narrow model of learning. For the learning and unlearning that is required of us to decolonize our yoga (teaching) practice, the REID critical thinking model introduces a dialogue between the cognitive, the emotional, the conditioned and the experienced. Unlike many critical thinking models, there are no perfected decision trees or arrow models that lead to one clear answer. That may feel unsatisfying.

We spend one-third to one-half of our waking life not living in the present. We think somewhere between 6,000 and 65,000 thoughts a day, and this model is asking us to think more! We cannot stop thoughts. The mind is meant to think in the way that the heart is meant to beat. We can, however, develop a wiser way of working with our thoughts, so that they may slow. So that we are not consumed by our thoughts or ruminating for an extensive amount of time on negative experiences. In the same way that, in wiser relationship with the heart, we are able to slow the heart rate in times of fear or anxiety.

The following practice can be understood as a meditation on mental processes. In developing mindfulness of thought, it becomes possible to work better with REID, including in the moment as a conversation or encounter unfolds.

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