Raja yoga (higher or royal self-control) is the immediate and direct conscious control of the activity of the mind through the control of attention. According to Patanjali, the ability to control the activities of the mind arises only against the background of the state of "vairagyam" - "dispassion" or "inner silence", which is defined as a combination of detachment, complete internal background silence and stopping the internal dialogue. When inner silence is achieved, a person returns to his true nature and becomes a free being, able to control perception. By consciously changing the settings of perception in this state of consciousness, a person changes the world by correcting the probabilistic parameters of the quantum picture of reality. The instrument by which this can be done is called "will." The application of the will realizes "intention" - accessible to each of us and at the same time the most mysterious and powerful "magical" force, with the help of which human consciousness directly affects reality.

There are many practical ways to develop "inner silence". It accumulates gradually and from some moment "collapses" into consciousness. Each person has his own quantitative and temporal threshold of practice necessary to reach this moment - the moment of "enlightenment".

One of the most effective ways of accumulating and activating inner silence is what is called "hatha yoga", or "yoga of power" - "a strenuous effort made for a long time, and repeated regularly over a long period" (Patanjali "Yoga- since morning"). Hatha yoga - "the gymnastics of the wise" - self-control through force (Skt.) - a gymnastic method for realizing such an effort, invented in antiquity and brought to perfection by wise people over the centuries. “There can be no success in raja yoga without hatha yoga, just as hatha yoga cannot be successful without raja yoga. The ignorant who practice hatha yoga without the goal of achieving raja yoga are wasting their energy in vain. (Swatmarama "Hatha Yoga Pradipika")

Andrei Sidersky talks about his new methodological development - a concentrate of more than thirty years of experience in the practical application of hatha yoga to achieve the state of raja yoga in modern society. The working title of the development is "Yoga of Intention".

Overview of the principles and general composition of the method, practical acquaintance with one of the twenty-seven "open" training series of the initial level of complexity. Initialization of access to the control functions of attention, initialization of the channel for controlling the energy of the will, initialization of the field of the intention functional, activation of the "internal screen" function and control of the field of attention.