Self-Understanding

Self-understanding:

it sometimes feels as if there’s a kindness deficit in the world right now, a lack of empathy and self-understanding — and I know as well that this must be true within me if it’s recognized at all, a deep place of hurt that’s not yet healed or come to light in my own inquiries and time spent in meditation. The world doesn’t need healing, I do, and through this I will come to see the world as my reflection, already whole, healed, full of kindness, love, and empathy.

being a yoga practice of kindness and compassion.

and it is a practice, allowing this natural gift to come to surface, with just a little awareness and it becomes a spontaneous surprise, my true self being shown to the world in every act of grace and kindness, easily and without effort of my own. That’s what’s meant by self-understanding, exploring below the surface of my initial reactions and finding a deep reservoir of compassion, that by my very nature I display kindness simply being as I truly am, and that any practice done is really only a means of self-revelation, my own love shown to me and now given to the world.

this isn’t a yoga of denial, negating any emotions that arise, it’s much more free than that, allowing, allowing, and always allowing my world exactly as it is right now. It’s with this that I find myself whole, accepting every cloud as…