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=How to Cultivate Hathayoga Practice?=
Though mechanical, these Asanas in Hathayoga are done with perception of the psychic being in us.The psychological method is Yoga. To seek within oneself through introspection what is permanent, what is constant.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/16-december-1953#p4</ref>
Hathyoga and Tantric practises are occult processes for acting on the body while the modern methods of development follow the ordinary physical process to give the body all the perfection it is capable of in its present state. The basis of all these methods is the power exercised by the conscious will over matter. Movements, on the other hand, if they are made consciously, deliberately, with a definite aim, suddenly start helping you to form your muscles and build up your body and to create a general harmony in the body— we succeed. Therefore, what I mean is that the method one uses has only a relative importance in itself; it is the will to obtain a certain result that is important.
You can use all the movements of your life for a harmonious development of your body. So, you choose the method you like best, but you can use the whole of your daily life in this way. To think constantly of the harmony of the body, of the beauty of the movements, of not doing anything that is ungraceful and awkward. You can obtain a rhythm of movement and gesture which is very exceptional thereby the conscious will which acts on matter, not the material fact.
"Something there is in us has to be developed, perhaps a central and still occult part of our being containing forces whose powers in our actual and present make-up are only a fraction of what could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able to bring about with the help of the light and force of the soul and the supramental truth-consciousness
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/17-july-1957#p2</ref>
=Why is Hathyoga Important?=