The six destroyers of yoga practices, as mentioned in the "Hatha Yoga Pradipika" are:
over-eating, over-exertion, useless talk, undisciplined conduct, bad company, and restless inconstancy.
To overcome these obstacles, Patanjali offered the four-fold remedy of friendliness and feeling at one with all that is good, compassion with devoted action to relieve the misery of the afflicted; delight at the good work done by others and avoidance of disdain for or feeling superior to the victims of vice.
The prescription is enthusiasm, daring, fortitude, true knowledge, determination and a feeling of detachment, of being in the world but not of it, as the means to overcome the obstacles in the path of Yoga.
-B.K.S. Iyengar in "Light On Pranayama"
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