Embody Your Natural State of Being
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A disturbed breath leads to a disturbed mind. A Steady breath leads to a steady mind. The two go together. Hence cultivate a steady and quiet breath, thereby the mind is controlled. – The Hatha Yoga Pradipika
When we become steady, the natural state of being arises living life with success and solutions every step of the way.
There is a belief that many people are taught: we must search to find the answer or find out who we are. It is as though we are a mystery to ourselves. Most people experience this reality, doing what they do day in day out, knowing there is more or something else undiscovered.
We are often told that all is within, but how many of us actually stop and ask ourselves the same question we expect others to answer for us. When we stop and listen we are open and may actually hear the answers from within.
Maybe we do stop and ask, but do we take the time to listen and hear, then act on that information?
Sometimes the key is so simple that we miss it and forget how easy it can be. The solution is often right there in front of us yet tension or frustration mask it. The simplicity is often denied or rejected as the mind struggles with holding onto a false or old idea of the way it should be.
We are taught to search far and wide. Imagine if we could just let ourselves know; stopped hiding and putting obstacles in our way. The obstacles serve a purpose in keeping us distracted from actually achieving the result we want. Obstacles keep us busy and begin to feel like a back and forth game. Every step we actually take can be an achievement when in an open space of receptivity to love, joy, peace and health. We can trust that each step forward is in line with a source of energy inside each of us that desires to live and feel fulfilled.
Ironically it is the moment we stop searching that the answer falls in our lap. This happens when we stop trying and start relaxing.
Searching has intent and it is the moment of no intent that we are actually completely open to receiving a solution beyond the workings of the mind. Sometimes we refer to these moments as magical or coincidental or scratch our heads and think “isn’t that funny, I could not have planned it better myself”. Can we accept that miracles are based in natural laws of nature and that so much happens when we relax, allow and just let life happen.
Intent is usually there to serve us to reach a particular achievement. There is purpose behind our actions. When we let go of the need to have purpose perhaps we can just let ourselves be the joy, passion and life we are and were at birth.
Our natural state of being is just that… Being. There is a distorted perception in society about having to have purpose and having to be something or someone. This fuels the search discussed above. By searching we put more energy and validation into an unconscious belief that we are not yet someone or something.
We are taught that if we do the right steps, right behaviours according to someone else’s beliefs, rules or judgements (either another persons or cultural), then we will find truth. But whose standards are we trusting and why?
Ultimately there comes a time when the answers or solutions from the outside just aren’t enough. When we have tried everything and exhausted most options, we are left with blankness, emptiness and an unknown.
We can avoid these feelings by creating more to do and keeping busy, yet eventually these suppressed feelings interrupt our sleep, dreams, relationships, work or health - until we stop, listen and actually hear what mysteries have been hiding and what gifts may await our reception.
Surrendering or letting go to the point of allowing a process beyond control takes you somewhere unknown. This is profitable. There is always a surprise.
Paradoxically it is this space that is the fulcrum.
Most people continue to try and look the other way while others take courage and let it happen. This is the path of least resistance.
No matter how acute or chronic the situation, this unknown is an opportunity to listen; listen perhaps for the first time, to a voice within, an authentic truth, a unique wisdom and solution. It’s an opening where we can choose which way we want to go. Do we go with the fear, contract into this emptiness and feed isolation or expand into love? The reality is that both may involve pain. I have noticed these beliefs and patterns in my own life and in the clients I have seen over the last 10 years in my kinesiology and breath work practise. Some clients continue to play a game of going back and forth while others gradually and consistently work through their issues with the work we do on a foundation of calm breathing.
Many people dream of having a blissful life and are very happy to keep the dream where it is. It is like a carrot dangling in front of the horse’s nose, never quite tasting its sweetness but always projecting and knowing it is there because you can see it. Can you feel it? To dream is a choice but now is a time where you can step into your dream and feel the exhilaration, passion and grounded joy of its physical reality.
It doesn’t have to be hard. It can actually be easy; so many things in life work with ease. The best things often do. The fact is no one else is here to experience being in your body. No other being is here to experience you in your skin so it is up to you to enjoy the experience. Experience it the way you want…. Gently, deeply, lovingly and joyfully. Why not? You may as well fill up the shopping trolley before you go to the checkout.
Let us stop the search and take stock of where we stand, feel it, breathe it in, open up. Stop talking and actually listen. A moment at a time, a breath at a time, and perhaps see what lies beneath the layers most of us hide under.
It is my firm belief that in any given situation there is a solution right in front of us that we cannot yet see or perceive. Often when we relax, stop and allow ourselves to get clarity, it usually surfaces.
Article By Ani Neradilkova
Ani Neradilkova’s background in psychology and kinesiology have been the foundation of a career and lifestyle in the healing arts where she has now been running courses called INSPIRATION. She has been a professional trainer for 7 years. Life is all about passion for Ani because “without it we would not exist”. She consults in Gladesville, Sydney, conducts Skype consultations and produces meditation CD’s.
www.kinessence.com
As the only Sydney Level 3 kinesiology practitioner (AKA #2039), her passion and inspiration have soared into her clinic and sessions with clients, and now into her corporate and group training sessions.
