Every action of ours, even a small one, cannot be accomplished without willpower. Without this force, we cannot even tie our shoelaces.
There is a big difference between our desires and our intentions. A person can have many desires, but the vast majority of these desires, like garbage, clutter our lives. Throughout the day, our brain generates different thoughts, and each one, even a small one, is a certain intention. However, most of the intentions we produce every day remain unrealized. These unrealized thoughts are similar to Brownian motion in an uncharged conductor. In such a conductor, no electric current arises because the electrons have a chaotic, not ordered motion. Only in a conductor where electrons have a unidirectional vector does an electric current arise. If our thoughts, our desires work together and take on a unidirectional vector, similar to a charged conductor, then we will feel and understand the power of intention. The current strength will increase incredibly, creating a magnetic field that will attract everything for the realization of the intention.
Willpower can become a tremendous force in the hands of someone who has organized the movement of their thoughts. For such a person, what for most remains only dreams and fantasies becomes possible. When willpower increases, our ability to realize our intentions also increases. People who are organized and focused are always more successful. When there is concentration, there will be success.
The main power of a yogi is sankalpa. Sankalpa is an unwavering intention on the path to realization, of which nothing can be impossible. Sankalpa is always realized, there are no obstacles for it, and everything that stands in its path gives way, like the sea waters before the prophet Moses.
Everyone has willpower, everyone has the power of intention, and everyone has the capacity for sankalpa. All of these forces are actually one force, but only sankalpa comes from the depths of our nature – from the center of our being. The practice of yoga develops in the practitioner the force that can penetrate to the very center – then sankalpa becomes perfect. Being in the center we have everything, because the center of the circle controls the radii and all points on the circle, and no matter what the radius is, the center always remains the center: whether in a person, or in the solar system, or in an atom.
The practice of yoga allows you to discover and develop willpower, strength of intention, and allows sankalpa to manifest. By practicing, we can change our lives.