Flowing free

We work so hard consciously to earn a living, to go through life, get enough money to ‘pay our bills’ and to satisfy some desires and wants and yet so many times we have massive internal conflicts and misalignment regarding our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

We often live in a state of paradox, we have conflicts about our life, about the way we are living it, doubts regarding it, about experiencing it and about enjoying it fully. We have feelings of fear and guilt attached to it, which can be traced back to our upbringing and what we experienced as a child. We seem to love second-guessing ourselves and waste time and energy and our vital life force in worry, anxiety, doubt, fear, insecurity…

We need to shift our perspective regarding the beliefs that we have and seek to construct empowering beliefs regarding what we wish to have. Otherwise, we will continue running and re-running old patterns and stay stuck exactly where we are.

Our feelings are great indicators of where we are in life, they represent our state of mind at a subconscious level. Here, I am not talking about the times that our feelings are out of control and jumping up and down at the slightest external changes, or about the superficial, distraction-driven sensations. I am speaking about tuning into oneself with awareness and intention.

We need to get in touch with our feelings regarding ourselves and how we are living.

How do you feel about your life?

What does being you feel like on a conscious level?

What is being you at a subconscious level?

We are actually in control of our thoughts and feelings and we need to intentionally place our awareness around our thoughts and feelings.

A good way of doing this is to stop and observe what is going on in our bodies as we read this and think about what life or for that matter anything means to us. This could be our work, hobbies, relationships, finances, religious and spiritual beliefs, commitments, decisions and choices.

Can we think about these with joy and bliss and pleasure or are we experiencing fear and resistance or feelings of guilt and shame mixed with the joy and pleasure?

Is greed a part and parcel of these feelings? Is envy rearing its head? Is our sense of self down on the floor?

Is there any tightness in our chest as we think about ourselves, a constriction?

One of the best ways of realising whether we are on the right track or not regarding anything is to get in touch with our feelings. A feeling of restriction, constriction and tightness is driven by fear and its allies. If there is a feeling of expansion and flow, of naturalness and lightness, then it is being driven by love and everything that is part of it.

So now once again, are your feelings regarding yourself and your life choices based on fear and lack or on flow, love, faith and abundance?

This is true regarding anything. Our bodies have an innate intelligence and radar to know what is happening around us as well as inside us. Once we tune into our physiology, we can begin to explore our inner psychology and vice versa.

Everything is interconnected and nothing exists by itself in a vacuum.

Open yourself, expand yourself, allow your heart to expand and experience love at its best. Root yourself in faith, in being, in knowing that all is well.

Our outer circumstances respond to our inner world.

The world that we inhabit, and the things around us, are a response to our thoughts and feelings. What matters is who you are, how aware you are of who you are, your intention in cultivating yourself, managing your thoughts and feelings, in nourishing yourself.

Most of us are deeply rooted in our senses and react to the world around us. We allow our ego to dictate how we think, behave and feel. We get offended by the smallest of things, we are slighted by the lightest of words as our sense of self-worth is tied to the tiny ego which needs a lot of attention and importance to feel satisfied and valued. As we go through life, we realize that there is no end to the importance that the ego demands. This is where we have to consciously and intentionally stop watching what is being experienced through our senses and begin to look inward.

Awareness, silence and presence allow us to connect to our highest self, the being which resides inside us, the being which is not influenced by the external, the being which is wholesome and complete in itself. It requires nothing from the outside, it requires no validation and no attention, it does not need to control anyone or anything. Connecting with it, allows us to let go of the petty things we deem important, the petty things that we define our lives by, the smallness and the limits.

We can then soar unfettered and free and Be WHO we are.

‘Aham Brahmasmi — I am Bhrahman, I am Divine’