How Does Fear Impact Your Life?
In the Yoga Sutra, Patanjali lists the 5 Klesa - colourings - of the mind, that impact our capacity to see things in front of us as they truly are. Instead, we are constantly looking through the colourings of our own past experiences, tainting the present and impacting our future.
Our main goal is to dissolve these colourings of the mind, so that our mind becomes as clear as a spotless piece of glass, enabling our deeper, immensely powerful self to see the world as it really is.
Imagine!
Not distorting the reality of someone’s words through your own wounds.
Not making ill-judgements about someone because they have a characteristic coloured by someone else in your history.
Not creating false stories that leech your energy away.
Not being held back because of some old, irrelevant programming.
Patanjali tells us in the Yoga Sutra that the five colourings are:
Ignorance
I-ness
Desire
Aversion
Fear
The order that these are written is not accidental. Ignorance being anything that colours the truth before us, moving through those that swirl strongest on the surfaces and underpinned by the last FEAR, that permeates so much more than we often realise. It is fear that often propagates anger. It is fear that dresses up as self-loathing. It is fear that makes us judgemental. It is fear that sabotages us from living in our purpose. It is fear that robs us of happiness. It is fear of our own dying that gets in the way of living fully, afflicting our decisions every single day without us even knowing.
The world can be scary but we are already capable - or not capable - of responding in whatever situation we find ourselves in. We are what we are in this present moment and we can make ourselves more capable, in different ways, each and every day. Learning to trust ourselves and our capabilities is a most important first step.
Little achievable brave steps each day, until those little steps grow to bolder steps, until you are embodied. Over and over again.
In this beautiful, pained, kind, tragic and glorious world full of incredible human doing the most extraordinary things each and every day, we send our love to you.
Lissie and Shane
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