25/02/2023
As humans we spend a lot of time in fear. We fear loosing what we have, not achieving what we want and we fear having things we don’t want.
Fear is a fundamental response to life itself that is activating our sympathetic system and put us on guard to what is happening.
In response to fear, we either freeze or if we have been raised by life the hard way, we convince ourselves that we need to be strong to face our fears! so we end up swallowing this fear at the expense of our body, our nervous system and our believes.
Over the past years, I have been led to stop escaping fear or facing it in the same way I used to do by being strong but to BEFRIEND it…in the same way I started befriending the darkness. For the yogis and especially the tantrums, they found that through the deeper reflection and meditation we can experience a part of us that is FEARLESS. The heart of that relates, in the ta***ic tradition, to Durga, the supreme Goddess. Durga means the invincible, the Fortress that is in each one of us where fears do not enter.
The further we connect with this space within, the more we realise that Fearlessness is not ferocity is the sense we know but is more RAWNESS and TENDERNESS.
Today as I held the morning practice at the Hermitage, I was called to keep repeating the mantra “OM DUM DURGAYE NAMAHA” allowing the power of these sanskrit words to infuse in our bodies, softening us into our strength.
Today was a humbling reminder that being fearless is not about facing things by yourself in the “familiar” way but to seek the help needed through the love surrounding us and within.
“OM DUM DURGAYE NAMAHA”
May we keep seeking the way to the Fortress that has no walls yet is invincible in Love.
