It is all very simple really. All that has happened to you in this life has shaped you into the person you now are. Past lives too, if you believe that to be true, have shaped you. You are whom you are now because of all that has happened to you. You are also the ‘victim’ of hereditary traits through the gene pool of you’re lovely ancestors.
What lies behind this person that you have inherited and become? It’s almost as if there is an original blueprint of you, like a template, that has had this person you now are, shaped into it.
We live our lives doing the best we can to find a way to live and too survive what life throws at us. We adapt in different ways to the life we have been given, and at a certain point in our life, we may find that the life we have been given was actually one that we hadn’t really had much conscious choice in.
“You may find yourself living in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. And you may ask yourself, my God how did I get here?” Talking Heads: Once in a lifetime. (Google it)
So one day you may ask. “My God how did I get here? What has happened? What have I been doing? People usually find themselves asking questions like this when they have some kind of, what the medical people term ‘Nervous Breakdown’. Now don’t be too shocked by this, but this is exactly the place that yoga can take you, and beyond, if you have the tenacity and the commitment for it. (This is only my opinion by the way)
What has usually happened in the case of a so-called nervous breakdown is that a person has moved so far away from any authentic life, that they have become disconnected from themselves on an emotionally healthy feeling level. For some people unfortunately the doctor is the best place to go at this stage of the game.
“People create neurotic suffering to avoid authentic suffering” Freud.
We may suddenly find that we do not know who we really are. We may ask did we ever know who we really were? Life kind of goes like this for most of us; In order to get approval at school, work or even at home we sometimes had to behave or act in a particular way. This is what most people do to get their needs met, to get what they want. It’s only when we forget we are acting that we literally lose ourselves. We then become 'ungrounded', or lose touch with feelings, and seek help somewhere outside of ourselves, and as mentioned in previous blogs there are plenty of people willing to help. For the right price you can get all the help you need.
The human body will always seek ways to survive; it is inherent in its structure to survive. A crisis is the body/minds way of trying to restore some health and equilibrium. The body will respond to fear whether real or imagined. The body has a mind of it's own, which is nothing to do with the ego's pressurising games. Give it some love by doing some Asana and Pranayama, relax. . . . . . . .
It’s amazing to me that we are not educated into the function of the human body at school. Anatomy and physiology isn’t such complicated subject and a darn sight more useful than algebra. But no, it is left to the experts to sort us out when it all goes wrong. Tragically most people know more about their car than about their own body. Most people too, in my humble opinion are quite ready to spend £1000 or more to get the car fixed but when it comes to £100 or so to get some health check, no way.
Well blah de blah de blah, who cares anyway?
Well me neither actually, not anymore at least. I have spent vast amounts of money on ‘finding myself’. I have suffered untold miseries in order to find ‘the truth’. So when people show a little resistance to the process of waking up, I’m usually very empathetic with them. But when people keep making endless excuses as to why they can’t do a class or a workshop and continue to whine and complain even when you’ve spent half an hour at the end of a class telling them what you think might help them, I lose interest, and the reason for that is; I don’t think everybody is cut out for the yogic path. So if you think that is you then it probably is. Lets just leave it at that.
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