Do you think you will break?
I spent two and a half years on the journey of a lifetime. One year was spent in the lush jungles of Costa Rica, on a fast track to healing my body, mind, and spirit in the paradise of Nosara, where I trained to become a yoga teacher. Four months in Spain nourished my soul: writing secluded in the Axarquia Mountains of Andalucia in the south, bursting with life in Barcelona, and walking out my past on El Camino de Santiago—a 400-mile pilgrimage across the country’s north. The remainder of my journey was devoted to experiencing different pockets of the United States, seeing my...
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“Your body is a walking repository of every experience you have ever had in life. Many experiences occur so rapidly or under conditions of such stress that they are stored in the body’s memory in undigested chunks.” —Don Stapleton — The physical form is the outermost layer of the body, the densest manifestation of who we are. What we take in and retain in this layer ultimately determines our health and our ability to live an active, vital and pain-free life. When experiences, poor food and nutrition, stress, stored emotions and so on begin to build up, these are the things that...
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“Our feminine consciousness exerts its power through attraction rather than activity, like a magnet will attract the iron shavings.” — Marianne Williamson — The energy or prana body represents our life force, the underlying vitality that animates our physical body. It determines our ability to create the things we desire in life – whether they relate to life’s work, to relationships, to artistic endeavors or anything else productive. When we fail to regulate our energy, unhealthy conditions manifest such as depression, stress related physical conditions, lack of focus or...
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“Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear and I can’t help but ask myself how much I let the fear take the wheel and steer.” —Drive (Incubus) — The personality body is the control system that directs our thoughts and emotions, built over the course of our life based on the meaning we assign to the events that we experience. This layer of the self is also called the ego, which has as its main concern our individual survival. When overly identified with it, we manifest illness and unhappiness by becoming rigidly attached to the way we think things are instead of...
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“Walk on, and leave it behind.” —U2— The wisdom body represents our ability to see life for the lessons it provides us, rather than seeing ourselves as the victim of circumstance. This skill of discrimination – witness consciousness, not taking personally what happens in life – enables us to see the patterns of reaction we have developed over the course of our lives. Our inquiry into these patterns allows us to release them and to incorporate new, more productive modes of behavior. We begin to make more conscious choices that influence the well-being of ourselves and...
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“If you cannot see God in all, you cannot see God at all.” —Yogi Bhajan — The innermost layer, the bliss body, lies closest to our experience of the divine. Having balanced our physical, energetic and personality layers and developed our ability to witness life for the lessons it provides, we begin to see that we are all interconnected. Our separateness is the true illusion. We are an essential part of something bigger, and the way that we act directly impacts the health of our greater “organism”. This could be our family, our community, our country or our planet. Like...
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