Look at this picture.

Tell me what the first thing is that comes to your mind by replying to this post, and I will get back to this in a few paragraphs:

Use your mind!

That statement can only be a positive one, right? You are rewarded for using your mind, by thinking, right? Hell, why not just think all the time so you can be rewarded even more! Just like being on Steemit, post all the time, upvote everyone and follow everyone and get rewarded as long as you keep doing it, right? Sounds good to me!

How about this: use your mind by stopping the incessant thought processes. You've probably been conditioned to believe you should be using your mind until it burns out, like training to be some kind of mental power super hero, and now your mind has gone on the fritz because it has no brakes. Yes, your mind can't stop and it's like a runaway freight train accelerating downhill and all you can hope for now is that a sudden turn in the tracks doesn't lead you to disaster or derail the train.

Why am I even talking about this? Well, for sure I can only stick to all the easy and fun things about Yoga and meditation, assuming that you already love Yoga, grew out your dreads, decided to move to Costa Rica, permanently wear Lululemon clothing, and constantly say things like "love and light" with some freaky smile on your face that never seems to go away. But first of all, that's not Yoga, and second of all, I'd rather assume you don't want to try a Yoga session ever in your life and never have in the past but are having serious problems in your life with anxiety, depression, and being physically unfit at the very least.

If you're already chanting on a beach somewhere and touching the universe with your naked body while being blissful, good for you! But what about all those other people whose first thoughts are dark negativity, imagining all the ways everything has gone wrong, could go wrong, and will go wrong, falling deeper into a pit of despair before they've walked from the bedroom to the bathroom? This is where Metal Yoga comes in, and these are the people I write to.

I know lots of people like this, and I still try my best to get the message out there to all of them. It would be too selfish for me not to.

I can't force anyone, but I can give them the information that has nothing attached to it but the message itself. It's what many people mean when they say something is bulletproof when speaking metaphorically. It's prepared, it's solid, and it can take all the hits that can be expected from experience having things go wrong, and still function. Metal Yoga is Bulletproof Yoga. It can still be defeated, because there are bigger threats than bullets, such as bombs. A typical bomb scenario would be a mind that is resistant to acceptance, a mind that is shut down and rejects new ideas, a closed mind, a guarded and protected mind that does so because it has been trained to stay guarded to protect itself from prior abuses. This mind can go so far as to self-sabotage everything the owner of the mind tries to do. So Metal Yoga is Bulletproof, but your mind can still stop it. Do you see how powerful the mind can be?

What was your reaction to the photo at the beginning of this post?

Was it negative, or was it positive? Was it resistant, or was it exciting and motivational?

I originally wrote a blog post called Bulletproof Yoga, and you can read it here:
https://metalyoga.wordpress.com/2014/04/21/bulletproof-yoga/

One of the things I introduced in the blog post was a 65 minute meditative music composition that you can stream here:
https://soundcloud.com/metal-yoga/theta-long-65-minutes

There is also a download link there if you'd like to store the file on your devices. I wrote it, I recorded it, and I give you permission to have it.

I focus on the absence of thought, which requires using your mind in a capacity that you may not be used to. It is, however still using your mind and it is extremely powerful. If you consider thinking as one half of the mind, the other half is not thinking, revealing 50% of using the mind that has been just sitting idle, unused.