yoga is about war.

the Bhagavad Gita is a book that tells a tale of war.

why, then is westernized yoga so focused on toxic positivity and smiling till your face hurts?

from personal experience yoga makes me happy. but it never lets me rewrite the bad things that happen to me as positive. instead, I see it objectively for what it is and distance myself from it. I don't reframe negative occurrences as positive ones because I want my brain to remember them as unwanted.

I feel being overly positive can be detrimental to ones mental health and can make them a victim or easy to pull one over on.

https://linktr.ee/Gavin_edwards_yoga