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But through a consistent practice of Yoga Science disciplines like meditation, we can recognize that our sense of lack is birthed from our reliance on external objects that are subject to change. For example, when feeling insecure, we might decide to purchase securities. That makes us feel happy and secure when the stock market goes up, but when the market goes down and the stocks lose their value, we again feel insecure a n d unhappy, and our sense of lack resurfaces. The good news is that, Yoga Science teaches us how to view every relationship as a means for unbounded happiness and security. Therefore, an emotional rollercoaster ride like the stock market can actually teach us that what we lack is always variable. What we lack is always unique to us at a certain time and place in life, and differs from person to person. And as long as we require a crutch to be happy and secure, a sense of lack will always remain. Therefore, what "I" lack is not the problem. The real problem is that "I" believe that "I" lack. Our problem is not that we lack something; rather, it's not knowing we lack nothing. As the ancient Yoga scientists would say, "We are the fullness, bliss, and wisdom of pure conscious- ness having a human experience in time and space through a limited mind-body-sense complex." And as we use this practi- cal paradigm to experiment with Inner Wisdom, we can begin to see that the mind is both the problem and the solution. Just as Paul wrote in First Corin- thians, "Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling refl ections in a mir- ror, but then [when we become Self-realized] we will see every- thing with perfect clarity." Armed with this new re- alization we all can begin training the mind to ful- fi ll the purpose of life without pain, misery, and bondage. Leonard Perlmutter, founder of the Ameri- can Meditation Institute (AMI), is the author of an acclaimed book The Heart and Science of Yoga: The American Meditation Institute's Empowering Self-Care Program for a Happy, Healthy, Joyful Life, an encyclopedic guide to meditation and the Yoga Science that lies behind it. Visit www.americanmeditation.org MARCH FOR SCIENCE Date: April 22, 2017 Location: Pershing Square Park Time: 9AM – 4PM http://marchforsciencela.com yoga & spirit april/may 2017 21