The truth is, your mind mind not be totally silent or quiet-that's only one type of meditation. If your true needs as a human being mean coming to grips with old or buried thoughts, or just to process all the information that buzzes through our minds as part of our crazy lives, then your mind may be quite noisy during your quiet meditation.
The ancient yogis created the 500 original yoga poses as a means of quieting and calming the mind.
We contort our bodies into twists, hold different standing and sitting poses in order to draw the mind out of the ruts and familiar paths. Familiar paths aren't always negative-in fact, many of thee paths, or grooves, that the mind settles into are simply carved out during our daily journey through life.
Those paths that the mind is used to traversing, over and over again, become so familiar that the many distractions, repetitious patterns of thoughts and actions don't stand out; instead, they become automatic signals and controls that draw us into an pathetic, unchanging state of being.
When we contort and twist our bodies, we contort and twist our minds. our minds are then jarred back into the moment, into the present tense and are freed from the distractions of the familiar grooves where they were stuck.
New thoughts, new revivals of old, positive perspectives we may have forgotten, can then begin again.
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