Thursday, October 17, 2013

Peeling off the layers

The other day I took a yoga class. It was actually a free class at Core Power Yoga (they let you take any class for free on your b day).




The yoga instructor talked about peeling off a large sweater from her body, and she thought to herself what it would be like to peel off the layers of herself just as easily. The ones that we keep to protect ourselves from the people around us, the ones that grew thicker as people have hurt us and disappointed us. 

But embedded in these layers of protection are our fears that we keep holding on to. This prevents us from letting go, and being free to grow and move forward in life. 

I thought about this. What if I peel back these layers to find myself at the core, and do not like the person I find. What if I realize that inside I am angry in the core, that I am judgmental, that superficial things are things that matter the most to me. It would be easy if we could say that everyone is a good person at core. Perhaps we are... but perhaps we aren't. Who is to really say?


<3 Namaste


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