Sauchua: Purity of body, mind, space, speech, and intention

I have been practicing Saucha since I learned about it during my yoga teacher certification in Baja Mexico in October 2022, so it’s going on four years now. Why is this important? It creates health in my mind, body, and spirit.

I have applied this concept to my daily life, specially when it come to keeping all the clutter out of my life. If you have something in your hand and you’re done with it, walk it to its rightful place, put it away. If you keep doing that your home, office, car, will never be messy with clutter.

Why is this important, the mess outside, reflects the mess inside your mind. When your surroundings are clean and organized, it helps to keep your mind uncluttered as well. Keeps the energy in your surroundings healthy. I have also used this concept while walking through life.

Cleaning the mess that finds you: Example, you’re on a road trip and need to stop to use the bathroom. When you walk in it’s really messy, paper strewn all over the floor, a puddle of water around the sink, trash overflowing.

What to do? Ignore it? Sometimes in life a mess will find you, weather you created it or not, does that mean it’s not your responsibility? A yoga lifestyle means you take the 5 minutes to tidy that bathroom, because it’s the right thing to do, then you get to enjoy the space yourself!

Doing it without blame to anyone else, taking on that little extra means, possibly the overworked employee at the gas station gets a brake, because we are all going through things in life.

God wants us to choose to be of service, even the little things make a big impact on our lives, and to those around us. These were just examples of how to take small steps daily to improve our lives, mentally, physically, with added ripple effects of positivity.

Random acts of kindness is a gift to all, including ourselves.