An inner burning man (and woman!)

As you meditate or do yoga, a fire arises in the belly that burns away and transforms negativities and impurities. It is an internal fire of purification.

First acknowledge and accept difficulties and struggles with their uncomfortable emotions/feelings and then offer them to the fire of yoga.

Those things you let go of and are willing to offer to the fire somehow metamorphose into something uplifting that transforms your state in ways your ego could never do and the mind itself not conceive.

This is how seemingly insurmountable obstacles can miraculously transform us.