The Shawn Ryan Show

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#315 Sadhguru - Stop Letting Your Mind DESTROY You

Explore episode Jun 22, 2026

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What Yoga Really Is: The Sensory Body, Phantom Limbs, and Expanding the Boundary of Self

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Sadhguru asks Shawn to rub his palms briskly and then hold them four inches apart — Shawn reports a magnetic sensation, proof of a sensory field beyond the physical skin. He connects this to phantom limb syndrome: amputees feel sensations from limbs that no longer exist because the sensory body extends beyond the physical one. He then offers a clean definition: whatever is within your sensation boundary is you; whatever is outside is not. Drink water and it becomes you — it crossed the boundary. This framework makes yoga elegantly practical: expand the sensory boundary to include the room, the forest, the cosmos, and 'thou shalt not kill' becomes redundant — you would no more harm something inside your boundary than you would stab your own hand. If you have never heard the word yoga but once felt one with everything, he tells Shawn, you are a yogi. Yoga is not a posture.

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