Cause over Cure….

I’d recently heard that….

“Most are more interested in the cure than the cause.”

Which struck me as a noteworthy bit of wisdom. This idea certainly comes up in conversations around health and medicine but also pertains to personal relationships.

Ever by-pass your role in a particular dynamic and fast forward to trying to change the “other”? Any parents out there? While this may be semi-satisfying at the moment, if the roots are not tended, the pattern will likely repeat itself again.

Personally, I notice a tendency to want to rush in with an answer, or “solution” rather than to see and hear the multiple aspects of any issue. In many ways, yoga practice aids us to be less presumptive, more patient, and to perceive with greater depth.

In practice, it looks like a movement of energy away from the alleged “cure” and recentering on the “cause.” Sometimes the “cause” of conflict has less to do with the circumstances and more to do with our conditioning.

Understanding our causative role in circumstances is a stepping stone towards greater realization and inner-freedom.