Home Retreat differs in great magnitude from most regular home meditation practice. Many very sincere yogis are able to meditate just once or twice a day because one’s focus is primarily geared towards managing the necessities of daily life. Over time, meditation practice becomes a second-tier priority and one’s habits, preferences and desires increasingly go unobserved, further reconditioning and deepening the blindness of those same habits and patterns.
During Home Retreat the yogi switches those priorities for a prescribed amount of time making the meditation practice the priority and everyday life the practice field. The focus changes from allowing normal habits and patterns of daily life to overcome the intention towards attention, and instead switching the intention into making meditation and reflective living the priority. This switch in focus offers increased opportunities to de-condition and reorient the mind/heart from the habit and pattern of forgetting, which naturally creeps into one’s mind and converts the same daily life conditions into a proactive, wholesome effort.
Continuous attention to our meditative goals will support the householding yogi’s momentum towards success. Continuous attention leads to patterns of longer periods of attention, and conversely, periods of non-attention lead to more periods of inattention.