
🤍it is easy to love the best parts of myself. Im proud of my accomplishments & praise my progression, cruising along in the sunshine in good vibez. but, about my 'shadow' parts (Jung)- not tending to them leaves them underdeveloped & suppressed. when they surface, Ive become angry at myself & others. at times I subconsciously check out, to avoid & ignore. what I love about Kundalini Yoga practice is, it is teaching me to accept & love all of me –to love myself when Im angry or need time away, when Im irrational -to allow all my experiences of being a human. it is teaching me to acknowledge & allow those feelings to be felt fully, to be curious & compassionate when I react. it's instrumental in me coming around to owning these parts of myself & recognizing they are {can be} problematic
🌪️ There is & will always be a constant play in polarities. So often we want to connect to an emotion, to the feels, and itll engulf our total existence (a night, week, years) hijacking us, & so we miss out on the evolving world (that is us) around us.
🌬️ now, whatever the emotion, I challenge myself to feel it through its full course– to love & accept it, & ‘practice’ through it - creating stability, owning it, transmuting uncomfortable feelings as a tool for empowerment -then, letting it go. Im a human with emotions; I fuck up & shine bright -a beauty-full experience to embrace! Self-love
💙 My favorite definition of love, that I challenge myself with, is from Alain de Botton, Creator of The School of Life 🤍 "What does it really mean to love? To love ultimately is to have the willingness to interpret someone's, on-the-surface, not very appealing behavior, in order to find more benevolent reasons why it may be unfolding. In other words, to love someone is to apply charity and generosity of interpretation. Most of us are in dire need of love, we need to have some slack cut for us because our behavior is often so tricky, that if we don't do this, we wouldn't get through any kind of relationship. But we are not used to thinking that is the core of what love is. The core of what love is, is the willingness to interpret another's behavior"
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