What happens when we invest in an object or a person, a situation, a relationship and that thing we placed our value and identity in is gone?
I’ve always known to keep coming back to this question, Who Am I? It’s a good idea to make a habit of pausing and feeling into this answer.
WHO AM I without this object, this person, this place, this thing?
In martial arts training as in yoga practice, we practice enriching our spirit, we train our physical body to connect with our different layers, mind, body, heart and spirit, to build a relationship with it, to be in harmony with our internal workings, so the outside functions smoothly.
We all know the idea of inside/out! Take care of your internal environment as much as you focus on the external.
How well you nourish yourself and align with your inner body, determines what is experienced on the material plane. (First Chakra.) Do you remain loyal to or go against your own nature and values for the sake of the Other, or other things? This is poverty at the deepest level. You’ll feel the hole inside acutely. You’ll try to keep filling it by fixating on trying to fix the outside.
As hard as it may seem sometimes, and especially if you’re in a relationship or have children, we are each responsible for filling ourselves up. Nothing outside of you can offer you wholeness — it can offer support, relief, joy etc for a time. But when it’s gone, what is left?
This is a really important lesson for us empaths and highly sensitive gifted people. We are natural caretakers, healers and givers wired for kindness, empathy and selfless service. Life experiences and social conditioning have taught us to not value who we are. We tend to place value in people and things outside of ourselves. The dominant ‘masculine’ ideologies and mentalities do not support but rather exploit and ridicule our innate sensitivity and intuitive gifts.
It is our responsibility to unlearn habits that cause depletion of our vitality and life essence, our shakti. The sooner we enrich ourselves; take care of our selves first, the sooner we have the capacity to serve from a place of strength and wholeness and thereby impact more people and drive the positive change we yearn to create.
Connect with who and what you are without your labels, roles and objects and relationships. These things do form our life, but who are you at your core?
What one thing can you do now to experience your essence? Can you maintain this practice consistently?
Journal down the answer to Who Am I? What is my inner wealth? What makes me feel energised? How can I cultivate more of this goodness and richness?
Understand your worth beyond anything outside of you.
I’ll leave you with another Bruce Lee quote! Keep your eyes on the prize (the treasure that is you!)
‘This achieving the center, being grounded in one’s self, is about the highest state a human being can achieve.’
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Rise Up, Warrior!
Payal
Originally published at https://www.mindbodyspirit-yoga.com.
