Practice
5 Days — Letting Go of the Result
Loosening the grip on how it turns out.
Day 1 — Act, then release
Act; the outcome isn't yours.
BG 2.47 — Thy business is with the action only, never with its fruits; so let not the fruit of action be thy motive, nor be thou to inaction attached. read →
Practice
Pick one task today and do it well without checking how it lands.
Day 2 — Evenness
Steadiness is the practice.
BG 2.48 — Perform action, O Dhananjaya, dwelling in union with the divine, renouncing attachments and balanced evenly in success and failure: equilibrium is called yoga. read →
Practice
When something goes sideways today, pause one breath before responding.
Day 3 — Lean on nothing
Depend on nothing to feel steady.
BG 4.20 — Having abandoned attachment to the fruit of action, always content, nowhere seeking refuge, he is not doing anything, although doing actions. read →
Practice
Name the one result or approval you're leaning on and act as if it's already gone.
Day 4 — No tally
Weigh gain and loss the same.
BG 2.38 — Taking as equal pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, gird thee for the battle; thus thou shalt not incur sin. read →
Practice
Make one decision today without first tallying what it wins or costs you.
Day 5 — Just return
The practice is the returning.
BG 6.26 — As often as the wavering and unsteady mind goeth forth, so often reining it in, let him bring it under the control of the Self. read →
Practice
Each time your focus breaks today, come back without grading the interruption.