Who Am I?
How can we do inquiries into the Self off the yoga mat? Of course, we may find that the mat is the best place for our personal practice, and we may also begin to notice an overflow of this connection into events in our life. How do we continually do self inquiry while still actively living in the modern world while meeting ourselves where we are at?
There are events and times in our life that hold an incredible capacity to allow for break throughs, allowing for growth. Birthdays are one of those events that can hold an immense amount of energetic qualities. A perfect time for reflection that many don’t acknowledge as holding an immeasurable amount of transformational energy. A majority of humanity in this time period are unaware of the relation between birthdays and their window into the deepest callings of existence. Most people do celebrate and enjoy this day with pleasure and recognition, but for what purpose? Perhaps this is alos the perfect time to consciously deepen the connection to our purpose and begin to inquire about ourselves off the mat.
The birth of our body is a deep mystery, a gift everyday that we are constantly receiving. Our birthdays are a significant event that we take for granted, normally we don’t approach them from a Yogic space, not fully relating to our power. We arrive to this life as so many things to the outside world, a daughter or son, a sibling, a friend, and we continue to learn how to act and who to be. We quickly lose sight of this vision of what we were born to realize. The day of birth is the day our humanity gets the first taste of the path into the unknown. A flavor the human mind is both fascinated by and afraid of simultaneously.
This day can be a day to reflect on past experiences of family and friends, to truly be touched by the grace of these gifts, we may have gotten lost in those challenges but they may have also triggered us to realize the deeper purpose. Getting lost could be seen as the moment we arrived, separating from our mother. A separation we learn how to handle from all of the gifts this life gives us. Learning about the world is our personal experience to receive all the different types of presents. The childlike mind is curiously seeking in innocence, absorbing everything that crosses their path. Drastically shaping our individuality into becoming what the outside world wants us to be. Perhaps, we are living from this space of being a lost child, living in learned behavior. This is when and where our birthdays can be looked into from an alternative perspective, looking and listening to the child within and connecting curiously with the intentions to inquire into this mystery of life. Imagine how this child within would feel if he or she was finally seen and heard, as this young being has been going about life completely unaware. The moment that this child is embraced, everything we have ever known, seen, felt, experienced as Love is gone. This is when rapid growth happens. A living reality of gifts that don’t take on the form of toys and games, they aren’t materialistic things. We have always been giving and receiving from what we learned as a child, only until we do inner expansion and explore can we grow in Yoga.
When we raise awareness around what growth is, rather than referring it to it as external experience we can begin to receive and celebrate our birth gifts, which then are directly reflected back into the world.
When we begin remembering the Self, the process that unfolds is like rebirth, emerging out of all we’ve ever known. Again, another cycle of life happens, more gifts are created for us to receive. Only this time, our awareness may be coming from inner learnings, an expansion of awareness and we are no longer requiring external information to process our “practice” of Yoga. We become one with our own teacher and lost student. Our birthday has the potential for much more than we could ever imagine. A reflection can gift so many insights into understanding our own inner child and inner mother, seeing them in uniform within ourselves. This is the best birthday gift I’ve receive this year, existing in that connection. This feeling of validation of existence. Being held and loved by my own presence.
A birthday inquires into this mystical world and gives us all the chance to expand in this infinite connection. Everything received in life, whether or not they were viewed as undesirable or desirable, has lead me from looking on the outside to seeking on the inside. This is the most powerful tool that we all harbor, most of us humans are unaware of how to use these tools, we never were taught and that’s where Yoga flows into life. Our inner teacher lead us into seeking out how to explore these tools, which for most have lead us to find Yoga. Both the body and the mind are tools that we have been gifted and to utilize them from a Yogic approach is a fulfillment beyond worldly birthday presents. To celebration the human divinity of birthing our being we must begin asking ourselves who am I?Aum,
Resa
There are events and times in our life that hold an incredible capacity to allow for break throughs, allowing for growth. Birthdays are one of those events that can hold an immense amount of energetic qualities. A perfect time for reflection that many don’t acknowledge as holding an immeasurable amount of transformational energy. A majority of humanity in this time period are unaware of the relation between birthdays and their window into the deepest callings of existence. Most people do celebrate and enjoy this day with pleasure and recognition, but for what purpose? Perhaps this is alos the perfect time to consciously deepen the connection to our purpose and begin to inquire about ourselves off the mat.
The birth of our body is a deep mystery, a gift everyday that we are constantly receiving. Our birthdays are a significant event that we take for granted, normally we don’t approach them from a Yogic space, not fully relating to our power. We arrive to this life as so many things to the outside world, a daughter or son, a sibling, a friend, and we continue to learn how to act and who to be. We quickly lose sight of this vision of what we were born to realize. The day of birth is the day our humanity gets the first taste of the path into the unknown. A flavor the human mind is both fascinated by and afraid of simultaneously.
This day can be a day to reflect on past experiences of family and friends, to truly be touched by the grace of these gifts, we may have gotten lost in those challenges but they may have also triggered us to realize the deeper purpose. Getting lost could be seen as the moment we arrived, separating from our mother. A separation we learn how to handle from all of the gifts this life gives us. Learning about the world is our personal experience to receive all the different types of presents. The childlike mind is curiously seeking in innocence, absorbing everything that crosses their path. Drastically shaping our individuality into becoming what the outside world wants us to be. Perhaps, we are living from this space of being a lost child, living in learned behavior. This is when and where our birthdays can be looked into from an alternative perspective, looking and listening to the child within and connecting curiously with the intentions to inquire into this mystery of life. Imagine how this child within would feel if he or she was finally seen and heard, as this young being has been going about life completely unaware. The moment that this child is embraced, everything we have ever known, seen, felt, experienced as Love is gone. This is when rapid growth happens. A living reality of gifts that don’t take on the form of toys and games, they aren’t materialistic things. We have always been giving and receiving from what we learned as a child, only until we do inner expansion and explore can we grow in Yoga.
When we raise awareness around what growth is, rather than referring it to it as external experience we can begin to receive and celebrate our birth gifts, which then are directly reflected back into the world.
When we begin remembering the Self, the process that unfolds is like rebirth, emerging out of all we’ve ever known. Again, another cycle of life happens, more gifts are created for us to receive. Only this time, our awareness may be coming from inner learnings, an expansion of awareness and we are no longer requiring external information to process our “practice” of Yoga. We become one with our own teacher and lost student. Our birthday has the potential for much more than we could ever imagine. A reflection can gift so many insights into understanding our own inner child and inner mother, seeing them in uniform within ourselves. This is the best birthday gift I’ve receive this year, existing in that connection. This feeling of validation of existence. Being held and loved by my own presence.
A birthday inquires into this mystical world and gives us all the chance to expand in this infinite connection. Everything received in life, whether or not they were viewed as undesirable or desirable, has lead me from looking on the outside to seeking on the inside. This is the most powerful tool that we all harbor, most of us humans are unaware of how to use these tools, we never were taught and that’s where Yoga flows into life. Our inner teacher lead us into seeking out how to explore these tools, which for most have lead us to find Yoga. Both the body and the mind are tools that we have been gifted and to utilize them from a Yogic approach is a fulfillment beyond worldly birthday presents. To celebration the human divinity of birthing our being we must begin asking ourselves who am I?Aum,
Resa