The entire practice of yoga is not to identify with thoughts but to remain in witnessing, passive awareness. According to Patanjali, yoga goes beyond the modifications of the mind. Reactive thinking is active regardless of what you are doing. Reactive, mental and emotional activity arises out of unresolved impressions built into the time-bound karma body of the self-image. This means the reactive perceiv er, the ego-mind, superimposes a distorted reality of what is present.