The Yoga-Bitcoin Connection

And how to harness this energy!

It's one of those things that, once you see it, your life won't be the same.

Yoga & Bitcoin are in alignment. The ethics & values of each are aligned and I give a brief overview of this here with 21 Ways Bitcoin & Yoga Are Aligned in Their Values. It's a list, and I plan to go deeper into each item on it. I've even added more items since meeting with Saidah Gomez for this interview inspired me to write it!

How Can You Harness the Yoga + Bitcoin Connection?

This is off-the-mat stuff your yoga teacher should be talking about. What I mean is the yoga sutras that give us the yamas & niyamas. The values behind the creation of Bitcoin, or sound money, are aligned with these. All of this also aligns with the Reiki precepts and Ten Commandments...if you really want to go there.

Does this make Bitcoin have a spiritual angle? After being in the Bitcoin space for 6+ years, I've witnessed a spiritual awakening among many I've met.

This goes for the big ideas as well as the small. The big idea? Hope and peace. We find this in Bitcoin as living on a Bitcoin standard would make war unaffordable, which is something I mention in the interview with Saidah. Yoga, of course, teaches ahimsa, or non-violence. While many interpret this to mean they should eat a vegetarian diet, that may not be right for all people. But ahimsa is. Non-violence is the right way of life for all.

Many begin their intrigue into yoga because ahimsa is appealing though many get into Bitcoin for financial purposes. It's later and after much study they realize it's not just a monetary means, but a means of peaceful revolution.

How To Practice Ahimsa, or Non-Violence

No, you don't have to be vegetarian. There are other ways to practice ahimsa. For starters, be kind to yourself. The entire world would change if we all did this. Many have no problem being kind to others. But ask them to practice self-kindness? That's a different story.

With Bitcoin, a revolution is at hand. Once the money is fixed, war isn't possible. Right now, governments can print whatever money they want in order to go to war. Bitcoin ends money printing with its finite supply, making war too costly and next to impossible. If you can't print money out of thin air, you can't fund a war. You can't fund the violence. World leaders would be forced to live within their countries' means and cronyism would die. They'd have to use taxes to fund wars and citizens wouldn't go for that.

The kind thing we can do is use money to help rather than hurt. The start is to understand how money works, why the U.S. dollar funds war, how it's the world reserve currency, and how an increase in the money supply of USD is leading towards the currency's debasement. This is based on economic fact, not politics. Keynesian economics makes war possible; Austrian economics doesn't. You were likely only taught about the latter in school (and so was I) and now here we are.

There are good books about this, from Lawrence Lepard, Lyn Alden, and Saifedean Ammous.

How To Harness the Pure Energy of Yoga & Bitcoin

1. Learn about both yoga & bitcoin!
2. Practice yoga on and off the mat. Learn about yoga philosophy, not just poses. Every time you hit your mat is an act of love and non-violence toward yourself. Same deal every time we save in Bitcoin; it's an act of resistance and an act of love towards oneself.
3. Save in Bitcoin & lower your time preference. It changes you. It changes your mindset. It's also a practice of one of yoga's yamas, brahmacharya. Brahmacharya is "right use of energy" or restraint, or moderation. Both yoga and bitcoin harness energy in conservative ways. (Don't believe that bitcoin is boiling the oceans. The work of Daniel Batten and Margot Paez is worth following to find out how bitcoin is NOT bad for the environment).
4. Remember any use of money is an energy exchange. Bitcoin allows you to store yours for the long-term. Fiat doesn't since it's actively being debased by the money printer.

I'm keeping it simple for today. More to come!

For now, you can book my Reiki & coaching services online. I'm also on Zaprana, a website where wellness practitioners like myself offer our services to be paid in Bitcoin. Bitcoiners get a discount of 10% for paying in Bitcoin there with me!

I'll be adding more services to Zaprana soon!

I'll be covering, in more detail, 21 Ways Bitcoin & Yoga Are Aligned in Their Values.

Talking with Saidah inspired me to make a list; next, I'll write up each point in the list in detail.

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