Nature Supports Chaos! Yogic Guidance for the Highly Sensitive Person.
If we look at the nature or constitution, the ‘prakruti’ of a highly sensitive person, they are actually built for chaos.
Our sensitive nature is boundless, naturally rebellious and creative — it is not possible to move in a straight line.
Our desire for structure and any semblance of order, is simply our innate drive towards balance — something that is always in process (energy being fluid, not fixed).
The key to ‘getting it together’ is to first accept one’s nature, and to accept ‘change’ as a fact of life.
The next time you’re struck by unforeseen forces whether it be Covid, or any other destabilizing entity, remember the strength in your unique make-up!
Sensitivity is a gift, there is a lot of power and resilience stored in the softness — you just need to know how to move in right relationship with it — this is a journey for your own self-discovery.
In Vedic philosophy, there is a Sanskrit term, ‘Ṛta’ which signifies the natural order and rhythm of things in nature as well as the ‘moral order’, which we call ‘dharma’. When you feel like you’re being pulled into a dark or chaotic place, whether mentally, physically, spiritually or emotionally, practice ‘trusting in life’ — trusting in nature’s way of returning harmony to disorder, trusting its ‘secret ministry’.
Trusting in life also means to trust in one’s nature (remembering that in yogic thought, the macrocosm mirrors the microcosm).
Once you remove the limits on your mind placed by reductive ideologies like patriarchy and colonialism, and start trusting in the chaos that is nature — your nature — then the order begins to manifest, what you desire, is created as you are no longer fighting against yourself.
How will you shift perspective from dark to light?
Believe in your gift to see within the shadows — thrive in chaos!
Yoga Oracle Energy
Niyamas
Eight Stages of Yoga: Laws of Personal Observance
You are being called to deepen your yoga practice.
There are particular virtues and duties or a code of ethics that inform ancient Indian culture. Niyama is one of the eight limbs of yoga. These ‘observances’ are practiced to purify the mind and body and build strength of character. Tune in to what you need to cultivate in this moment: 1) Saucha, purity of thought, speech, body and environment 2) Santosa, contentment and optimism 3) Tapah, austerity/self-discipline, 4) Svadhyaya, self-study and 5) Ishvara pranidhana, devotion to and contemplation of Spirit. Take some time for yourself each day to reflect on these essential aspects of yoga practice and reap the results of the inner-transformational work you have done! These are necessary steps on the path of moksha (liberation). There are more codes in the Vedic scriptures, but these are the five outlined by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutras.
Where will your attention go this week?
Rise up!
~ Payal
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