"Simply speaking, drushti is
sensitive awareness to that which you are doing. This has two aspects
that are vital to every aspect of our practice. First it means bringing
your mind to bear exactly on what you are doing. Not doing one thing
while thinking another. This actually means learning not even to be
thinking about what you are doing. Rather, just be doing it, feeling
it. In the beginning we must think before we act. Then we act. Then
think again. But we must learn to separate these two processes so that
we can act with precision and clarity, without the distraction of
thought. Eventually we will learn to trust the intelligence of the body
and will be able to dispense with the thinking process more and more.
Then our practice becomes meditation in action."
"The second
aspect is to feel the effect of what we are doing. Not only at the
point of the action itself, but throughout the whole structure of the
body and the quality of the mind. We must feel its impact on the
functioning of the body, breath and mind. We use this feedback to go
deeper into the poses by making adjustments according to the four
secondary techniques of asana, vinyasa, bandha and pranayama. Then through the dynamic created between our intention and our actions, a meditative awareness emerges."
- Godfrey Devereux, Dynamic Yoga, 1998, p. 24
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