Author: ratnadyer

Yoga gives us many benefits:
Health and fitness, flexibility, relaxation and strength. It regulates our hormones and helps our digestive system and internal organs.

It has been proven to be one of the most powerful ways to heal from and release trauma.

It is a profound and reliable way to process; allow and release emotions safely.

And with all of those things said, after practicing regularly for some years, I am learning that the main healing power of yoga, is that it provides a pathway that brings awareness and consciousness into full embodied presence.

It is good to be in your body and not just feeling like a walking head.

Another part is usually there too, judging the angry part. On this level of experience we are not merely one self. We have many parts. Our one true Self however, is that in us which sees and is aware of all our parts.

Learn to look within.

When there is a strong feeling, fear or defensiveness, a useful question to ask yourself is ‘which part of me is feeling and acting this way?’.

If you had to paint a picture of their character for someone to act as them, how would you describe that part of you?

Gain this information to start to identify the parts of you that play out. They usually have similar patterns or ways of thinking that will show up again and again.

When we can gain awareness of which part is on the ‘stage’ and acting through us, we can start to step back and make choices from a conscious place.

Sometimes in our relationships we need to stand firm with our deeper knowing, which goes beyond mere beliefs, opinions or ideas and more resides in the realm of our intuition, direct experience and higher wisdom.

Sometimes we need to let go of our mental position, our defending and our need to be right and instead focus and prioritise connection and understanding in our relationships.

With the ability to shift mental perspectives and see from different view points, we gain more acceptance, allowing, relaxation and respect.

Enough and beautiful.

Make sure you do your best to communicate and work through things with love.

In cases of abuse however, it is clear, the important thing is to say no.

We are distinct as individuals, and yet not separate from the whole.

The absolute is absolute. There is no thing, no expression, no experience that can be apart from it.

It is only in our thinking of ourselves as different that we create separation.

Even on a scientific level, at the level of atoms and energy, quantum physics tells us there are no actual definite boundaries.

When we have a wonderful time, it passes.
When we have a terrible time, it passes.

We are always ‘returned’ to that which we never actually left, the reality of our self, here and now.

Trust this. Know this. Deepen your knowing of this.

Awareness aware of awareness.

Here we come home to the heart of reality.

Seek to know that in you which doesn’t change.

Practice listening.

You are much more than your reactions. You are the conscious awareness that can relate to your observed reaction and make a choice.

Learn to stop and look. Learn to take responsibility for your experiences and how you are taking things.

The same thing can be responded to in many different ways, depending on how different people think about it/hear it.

When something triggers you, will you take the route of your higher expression or your lower acting out?

Your ego acting out will often lead to more of the same, as it attracts and is attracted to its own vibration.

Conscious awareness can prioritise peace and care and kindness and love and moving beyond conflict.

It might seem like hard work at first to learn to stop and hold yourself rather than letting lose into reaction, but in the long run it is much harder to live a reactive life. And your relationships will suffer.

And at the end of the day, you are the one that has to be in your experience, you are the one that is with yourself and your choices and feelings every moment.
Isn’t it preferable to practice to feel and create peace?