Why Kaivala?

We should begin by addressing the most important issue of our life. How to get whatever you want. I understand that you must be an incredible person as you are reading these words and only an incredible person would have the focus, patience, and intelligence to be able to follow me. So we should start with perhaps a friend that you care about...if they came to you, as I understand that you may already understand how to get whatever you want...if they came to you and wanted more kindness, love and respect in their lives what would you encourage them to give away?

Those same things...right???

Now the next day your friend perhaps woke up on the wrong side of the bed. For whatever reason they woke up in what would most consider a negative mood, and all they wanted that day was disrespect, disgust, and hatred in their lives...what would you encourage them to give away???

Those same things...right???

Then the next morning your friend wanted more money. Can you think of a slave that gave away money...perhaps an example of a real rags to riches type story that actually came true. Where a person applied wisdom, not greed to their financial model of life...where they started in financial states of slavery and gave money to others, and in turn had liberty themselves?

You could think of Harriet Tubman??? Did she not have financial networks throughout North America to liberate people from the slave nation of The United States of America..

And if you had a friend that woke up in the morning and they wanted to learn more...and you were at a loss at what you could do to help them... Would you be able to have a fundamental bit of wisdom to give to them to help them on their quest regardless of your aptitude on the subject that they wanted to study. ...perhaps would you encourage them to study hard or would you encourage them to try to teach what they wanted to learn...

Teachers learn far more than students. In our world, people pay lots of money for an education and no one knows anything...We also have lots of people paying for love which is also is a bad equation and is illegal in many states. People also pay for hatred which makes our people so divisive that the only way that they can improve their lot in life is to steal from others. 

At Kaivala we dream of living in a world where people help each other. Where humans reward other humans when they see that they are helping others that no one understands how to help.

Only by helping others will we find our dreams to make this world, and our lives in it a better place.

Kaivala is a program to help humans understand how they can help others who are around them most. 

To help each other we need to Observe Without Judgement. Guilt, shame, and blame only stop people from reaching out for help and cause them to run away from help when it is offered.

Observation Without Judgement needs, to begin with, the relationship that we have with ourselves so that we can more clearly Understand the world.

Mindfulness is Observation Without Judgement. This requires you to Observe what is around you without trying to understand or make a judgment. Observation does not set precedence over understanding or judgment! What we are doing is separating these three for a length of time. The more time that separates these aspects of being, the wiser the choice will be when we take action.

Observation is being aware of what is. Mindfulness is taking time to Observe so that you can create a clear understanding of the world. Once you understand yourself, the world, and events happening around you, mindfulness will help you see 99% of the time that there is no Judgement required. With this clear path of Observation and Understanding, any Judgement made will be correct and beneficial for all. Kaivala helps you find balance in your life by Understanding how to apply mindfulness, judgment, and action in your life.

On a balance scale, you need to have equal weights on both sides of the scale. On one side of the scale, you place a standard weight, and on another side of the scale, you place what you are weighing. Judgment is heavy. Guilt, shame, and blame carry incredible weight. Judgment is like a teaspoon of matter from a collapsed star.  It weighs more than a million earths. To counterbalance this you will need to place a large amount of Observation Without Judgement on the other side. Kaivala helps you to increase your love, kindness, and compassion for others which will counterbalance these heavy Judgments that burden us.

This was recognized by all great spiritual leaders of the past. Jesus said, “My yoke is easy and my load is light.” And Patanjali spoke of yoga as “sthira sukham asanam.” (Yoga is being easy and observant.) As you can see Jesus is a Yogi! As you can see Jesus and Patanjali both understood life and the need to be balanced in life! Kaivala Yoga helps you use Observation Without Judgement to transform the difficult and burdensome things in life and make them easy and light.  Yoga is about bringing balance into all aspects of life. If you are going to walk or stand in place, you need to have balance.

As you find stillness in sitting for periods this requires balance. If you wish to dance, run, or jump these require you to be in balance. In movement, in mental power, in spiritual strength we need balance. We need to be balanced between truth and emotions. Inhale and exhale, rest, work, and play. Any time that we lose our balance in any of these different aspects, life will become difficult.  And if we do not find a balance eventually we fall flat on our faces.