To drive yourself to your fullest potential and achieve greater self-awareness requires you to start with personal self-mastery.
Everybody has the capacity to notice, to tune in, to separate themselves from their current circumstance and embrace change.
Greater awareness and self-discovery can enable you to be bolder, to be more original and see life for its true value. It starts with having more honest conversations with yourself, about what you want and about what you are truly here to do.
You are the distinguishing factor for how you see the world, and a greater level of awareness will allow you to acknowledge that viewpoint.
What are you authentically connected to? When you find it, it allows you to see deeper into a challenge or a problem. You see a more wholesome perspective and will naturally be more exposed to those ‘ah-ha’ moments. Those transformative moments are the ones that lead to a life of presence.
What silent agreements have you made with yourself to prevent you from seeing the world in a different way?
It all starts with creating a space for you to reflect, to be able to think and clear your mind. For some this may be skydiving, surfing, running, meditating. Whatever it is, start doing it.
For me, meditation, mindfulness and yoga have been the platform of reflection and inward looking. These stepping-stones have leveraged me into a healthier and happier life. Through my teaching journey, I have witnessed many people coming into greater alignment with themselves through these practices of self-mastery.
Yoga, meditation and mindfulness lead you down a path of self-discovery and fine-tuned awareness. They provide you with the tools to break free from the restrictions and limitations of the mind. This can only lead us to believe that it isn’t just a workout, rather a work-in. These practices date back to ancient Indian philosophy, where it states that these practices are an approach to conscious living.
The benefits of yoga, meditation and mindfulness:
1. Strengthening & Toning the body
2. Flexibility & Range of motion increases
3. Anxiety & Depression decreases
4. Memory & Attention improve
5. Helps diaphragm control through breathing
6. Uncover peace/bliss within (balance)
7. Improved Sleep
8. Better Digestion
9. Spiritual connection (Inward & Divine)
10. Development of Self-awareness & Self-acceptance
If you think meditation, mindfulness and yoga might not be for you, I urge you to reconsider. These practices are for everybody and for every body.
The practice doesn’t have to be overwhelming, daunting or come with an expectation. Try to remember what it is truly about and you will open yourself up to receiving all the gifts that lie within its essence.
I believe that these practices are the tools that enable us to live a wholesome, fulfilled life. The ways in which we offer ourselves space for reflection as a way to truly get to know ourselves.
This is my way of living, and I want to share it with you as a way to help you start your journey of personal self-mastery. Its a powerful experience.
Live with intention.
Chels
