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Why Your Negative Thinking Is Normal
(And How Yoga Can Help You Reverse It)

It was well before dawn when the whoops of a pack of marauding jackals shattered the peaceful night in rural India. Echoing off the valley walls, their howls and yips struck terror in the hearts of every small creature in the brush, along with a few yogis asleep in their beds at the Himalayan Institute’s Khajuraho campus where I stayed. “Human beings are not typical breakfast fare for jackals,” I reassured my aroused nervous system. My thinking mind knew this to be true, but the rest of me was not so sure.