01/26/2022
Do you know everyone's favorite word? Their Name!
Some of you guys might be wondering where the name Sat Nam came from. Well, my birth name is Sadiq Sheraze, which I still respond to. I am redefining my life and I am starting by changing the most common word I hear, and that is my name.
Sat Nam is a sanskrit term which means True Identity. Some of the work I do is to help people shed the false ideas of themselves and help them to find security through recognizing their true selves. So many of us mask around behind who we think we need to be, who are parents want us to be and what society suggested we needed to be in order to be accepted, loved, and seen.
The core of what I learned through school, yoga, personal experience and education was that our true selves are already worthy, divine and whole. WE DO NOT NEED TO BECOME ANYTHING! We get to BE who we are, as we are and if anyone objects to this, we do not have to take it personally.
Sat Nam is my reminder to BE my true self. I grew up in a muslim community with a loving religious family in Spring, Tx and I had a lot of expectations on me on who l needed to be. Coming out at Baylor University at the age of 20 helped me break through so many boxes but I found myself in more unrealistic self expectations in the LGBT community.
This led me to really seek out who it was I am, and that led me to the Yoga community and to a wisdom which I am still walking. We all become enraptured with our identities, and this is due to the fact that our identities are what keep us safe and accepted in different communities. When we are alone or abandoned by friends, family or communities, it triggers an evolutionary response of survival. When we enter in to this survival mindset, we retreat back to our identities instead of finding peace in the center within ourselves. This practice is what keeps in a confident state, a relaxed state and a state of self belief. With self belief, we can create. When we are in the creative state, we break through doubts, fears and limiting narratives that keep us from achieving our greatest desires.
