Have you ever been told, "Just be yourself and everything will be fine!" What does that actually mean? Aren't you always your self? No, not really. Do you act the same way in front of your friends that you do around your co-workers? your parents? Nope. We have different masks that we wear during the day. There is that time though, that we feel most at ease with ourselves and with life. That is the, "just be yourself."
I completed a local yoga teacher training workshop this past weekend. Might I say, that it was the most delicious and fulfilling yoga training that I have had to date. I feel like a whole, new, enlivened person buzzing with creativity and energy for my practice and my teaching. We were asked these questions:
*When do you feel your most authentic self?
*Where are you?
*Is anyone with you? Who and why?
*Where do you feel it in your body?
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I invite you to sit quietly with these questions as well. Go ahead, grab a pen and paper and write, I'll wait...
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What did you come up with? Was it hard to conjure a time and place of feeling authentic? Or was it easy? Do you have it in your mind now?
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In the hectic times during your day, you can close your eyes, take in some prana and go to that feeling and image. After writing that truth, it becomes more tangible, it is stronger felt, it is accessable. It has always been there, but in the chaos of humanness (is that even a word?) we forget and it gets buried under all the junk. So sift through the junk and pull that authentic self to the forefront and live from that space for a while.
It feels so good.
