How we think of ourselves changes over the years.
Something in us is unchanging, always present, the source of our being.
This truth of who we are, has nothing to do with thought or thinking.
We are more than any thought. We are awareness, conscious and present with or without thinking taking place.
Learn to go beyond how you conceive of yourself.
Remember to be kind. Remember to include yourself in your kindness.
Tears are healing. Joy and sorrow are intertwined. Allow yourself the full spectrum.
Allow feelings to move through and become aware of thoughts and narratives that can keep you stuck in certain emotions.
When we gain awareness we can open beyond.
Practice everyday to be embodied in aliveness.
Meditation does not need to be on a cushion. It can be in any moment where we bring our attention out of our head and into our awareness, our body, our breath, our senses, our presence.
Suffering is only sustained through thinking.
Access all that brings you joy!
Bring it from the past or step into new things you’ve always wanted to try.
Ask yourself in any moment.. ‘what is something loving or feel good that I can do with myself right now?’…
Follow it.
If you can’t seem to choose it, look into the thoughts and barriers that block you. Learn to see what you are choosing and protecting.
We have to learn to really connect with ourselves; come out of our head and into our heart and present moment.
No matter how much stuff we have, if we cannot connect in gratitude within ourself and be truly alive to our environment, we cannot ever feel fully abundant.
Being discerning is seeing things objectively, as they are, without needing to add your ideas or opinions. And with that just having an awareness or knowing of what is right for you in how you are going to respond.
Being judgmental is seeing things through your ideas and opinions and putting them in a box of good or bad.
I had a therapeutic massage today. Man it was so good.
Receiving is so healing!
It made me ponder on how it’s a totally different thing to receive care and physical support than it is to make my own efforts. Both are necessary of course. But man I was grateful.
And it was so clear to me how even a really brilliant doctor still needs a doctor, a nurse still needs a nurse, a yoga teacher still needs a yoga teacher, a Counsellor still needs a Counsellor, a massage therapist still needs a massage therapist.
We need each other.
Learning to open to receive is important.
Often we want to skip our challenging emotions and just feel better. But the way to feel better is to pass through our emotions, or to let them pass through us. This way they can be released and we will come home to land within our self.
We often fear we might be overwhelmed, drown or that our feelings won’t end, if we really let ourselves have them. But this is a trick of our mind, trying to protect ourselves.
Feelings will always pass. That is their nature. They are always moving.
And so with becoming more grounded in our body and our awareness, we can learn to trust ourselves to have them.
If we don’t know how to be with ourselves, what do we really have?
RATNA DYER 