Patanjali's yoga sutras

अभ्यासवैराग्याभ्यां तन्निरोध

abhyāsa vairāgyābhyām tannirōdhaḥ

abhyāsa = constant practice

vairāgyābhyām = the practice of detachment

tan = these

nirōdhaḥ = cessation; mastery

By the constant practice of detaching your identity from your mental vortexes, you attain mastery over the ego.

You are not your thoughts, your personality traits, or your mental states. You aren’t the things that happen to you or the things you do.

You are a tiny atomic particle of divine consciousness and it is through your individual awareness that Loving Awareness observes itself.

But, there’s a paradox in this. Loving Awareness has given you myriad ways to experience its totality. The constant rush can be overwhelming and you keep accumulating the residues of everything you live through. You practice yoga to nirōdhaḥ the chitta vritti, to stop the hurricane of mental vortexes–or at least to detach your identity from them.

Cultivate the feeling of inner divinity in yourself and your awareness of it in everyone and everything. Make this your constant practice. Detach yourself from any thoughts or emotions that disturb this perspective. Remind yourself of this universal divinity constantly and feel how it permeates every experience. Let the divine presence grow so big that it swallows any disturbance with rapturous silence.