Self-Discipline in 10 Days — Theodore Bryant

River Orion 2026-07-05

A figure silhouetted against a dusk sky pushing an enormous round boulder up a bare slope

Tapas — the Sanskrit word usually translated as "discipline" or "austerity" — literally means heat. The yogic tradition understood discipline not as the suppression of desire but as its transformation: the directed application of will producing a kind of internal combustion that burns through obstruction. Theodore Bryant, a licensed psychotherapist, reaches the same observation from the other direction. His 153-page…

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