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Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Oswaldo Grillet lleva una vida plena a nivel emocional y físico debido a su disciplina en la práctica de la meditación y el yoga que lo ayudaron a dar un giro positivo a su vida después de desarrollar una discapacidad visual. Escucha la historia de Oswaldo y su viaje por “un sendero místico científico”, que le ha brindado paz y felicidad.
“Sin duda, en la vida siempre hay un antes y un después… uno debe aprender a soltar cuando hay que soltar… y sí, tuve que dejar de hacer cosas que hacía, o las tuve que hacer de manera diferente y hacer ajustes, pero siempre que se abre un espacio, o que algo se va, es una oportunidad para entender que algo nuevo y diferente viene,” señala Oswaldo, quien en la actualidad se desempeña como terapeuta motivacional, trabajador social, profesor de yoga, músico, compositor y escritor.
Oswaldo admite que, por años, estuvo desconectado de su cuerpo y mente, compenetrado en mantener una existencia agitada, rebosante de proyectos y responsabilidades que le exigían atención y tiempo. Pero con la pérdida parcial de su visión comenzó a buscar caminos que lo llevaron hacia la introspección. En ese espacio reevaluó sus prioridades y aprendió a aceptar que “la vida es un proceso de aprendizaje y adaptación”.
Vale aclarar que Oswaldo es un practicante experimentado del yoga y la meditación. Comenzó a explorar ambas técnicas en Venezuela cuando era un adolescente, y años más tarde viajó a la India donde vivió como monje, estudiando y practicando el yoga, música devocional, meditación trascendental y medicina ayúrvedica.
Esta riqueza de conocimientos facilitó su camino, y lo ayudó a ser más consciente de su realidad para encontrar formas de adaptación ante los cambios inevitables. Así, poco a poco, y con la ayuda del yoga y la meditación, logró afinar su manejo del estrés, “porque el desprendimiento de retina está vinculado con el sistema nervioso y la presión”, explica Oswaldo, consciente de que el riesgo de volver a sufrir otro desprendimiento en uno de sus ojos es significativamente elevado.
Oswaldo insiste que para meditar no es necesario esforzarse, solo hay que buscar un sitio tranquilo, cerrar los ojos, concentrarse en la respiración y aceptar los pensamientos que surgen, observándolos, en lugar de intentar controlarlos.
La esencia del yoga es cultivar la determinación para que una persona logre quererse y estar en paz consigo mismo y con sus procesos internos, y para que pueda vivir en armonía con todo lo que no puede controlar en su entorno. El yoga también se puede definir como una herramienta para lograr “el equilibrio no solo dentro del cuerpo o entre la mente y el cuerpo, sino también el equilibrio en la relación humana con el mundo”.
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Oswaldo Grillet leads a full life, both within his mental and physical wellbeing, due to his disciplined practice of meditation and yoga that helped him put a positive spin on his life after developing a visual disability. Listen to Oswaldo's story and his journey along “a scientific and mystical path” which has brought him peace and happiness.
“Without a doubt, in life there is always a before and after… one must learn to let go when it is necessary to let go… and yes, I had to stop doing things that I used to do, or I had to do them differently and make adjustments, but whenever a space opens up, or something leaves, it is an opportunity to understand that something new and different is coming,” says Oswaldo, who currently works as a motivational therapist, social worker, yoga teacher, musician, composer and writer.
Oswaldo admits that, for years, he was disconnected from his body and mind, involved in maintaining a hectic existence, overflowing with projects and responsibilities that demanded his attention and time. But with the partial loss of his vision, he began to look for paths that led him towards introspection. In that space, he reassessed his priorities and learned to accept that "life is a process of learning and adaptation."
It is worth noting that Oswaldo is an experienced practitioner of yoga and meditation. He began exploring both techniques in Venezuela when he was a teenager, and years later he traveled to India where he lived as a monk, studying and practicing yoga, devotional music, transcendental meditation, and Ayurvedic medicine.
This wealth of knowledge made his path easier, and helped him become more aware of his reality in order to find ways to adapt to the inevitable changes to his vision and life. Thus, little by little, and with the help of yoga and meditation, he managed to fine-tune his stress management, which was important "because retinal detachment is linked to the nervous system and pressure," explains Oswaldo, aware that the risk of returning to suffer another detachment in one of his eyes is significantly high.
Oswaldo insists that meditation does not require extreme effort, explaining that instead you just have to find a quiet place, close your eyes, concentrate on your breathing and accept the thoughts that arise, observing them, instead of trying to control them. The essence of yoga is to cultivate the mind so that a person can love and be at peace with himself and with his internal processes, encouraging him to live in harmony with everything that he cannot control in his environment. Yoga can also be defined as a tool to achieve “balance not only within the body or between mind and body, but also balance in the human relationship with the world”.
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