14/06/2025
Walking the path of a Practice, in which the number 1 guideline is non-violence means an active effort of loving….it doesn’t mean that we’re not allowed to be angry.
The Yoga System is in place as an instrument of insight to guide us through the unrelentingly changeable state of the human experience.
The full spectrum of emotion & thoughts, the mistakes, the breakups, the breakdowns, the pain, the loss, the rage, the bliss, the love, the connection, the kindness & compassion….ALL OF IT…all of it is valid.
Some reactions come more naturally than others, often they rise up like fire because they have been suppressed….we don’t encourage suppression in a healthy society…ergo we see that our society is desperately unhealthy….
Most of the unnecessary suffering we see and feel comes from generations of shame….when we try to express our anger, we are labelled aggressive, we are condescendingly judged and told to calm down or wait or be quiet…..there seems to be very few avenues through which we can feel safe enough to communicate our anger, so we shut down…. we people please our way into pretending to be ok when we’re not.
Now, to be clear, by no means am I suggesting we act violently with an agenda of damaging others, what I’m saying here is that, if we are to genuinely be on the road to healing & growth, we must have the courage to stand up for ourselves, to articulate the shadow, to give voice to the darkness…because to mask ourselves in only light is to be a blatant liar…..particularly in the wellness space…we have a responsibility to be as honest as possible about our sh*t…. otherwise we’ll never wade through it!
Who do you trust more…someone who speaks the hard truth in the moment or someone who is secretly seething under a veil of sweetness?
As long as we are embodied as humans, we will encounter all manner of fury, there’s no avoiding it, so it’s better to be candid about it and to balance it with an active Practice of loving…
let anger come up and out, speak it when you need to, your people are strong, they can handle you….and ALSO love them as a Spiritual Practice ✨
‘Love, Love is a verb, Love is a doing word’
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