Sometimes you can simply make a decision that is good for you ...
Formulating an intention, letting it go and then detaching yourself from the result without covering yourself up with eternal affirmations or 'chasing after' positive thinking is a league that not everyone is prepared to play in. The fears and the loss of apparent security are too great.
Life is made up of tests of courage that you can open yourself up to if you are able to consider all the consequences. To do this successfully, you need distance, an observer's perspective and unconditional trust. Not in something or someone, but in something that is beyond names and rational ideas.
Intuitive or highly sensitive people know this only too well, but build protective cloaks around themselves as they cannot withstand possible 'attacks'.
Rational people don't even realise what it's all about because they are so busy with the everyday and fulfilling THE goal that they can hardly look to the left and right and see or perceive other fields.
In Yoga & Ayurveda we speak of 3 bodies & 5 sheaths, consisting of the gross/physical body, the subtle or astral body and the causal body. A different level of density pervades these bodies and each of these levels is composed of sheaths which in turn influence the life of each person in an individual way. This concept from Jnanayoga deals with the question & path of "Who am I?". The answer is based on the previous answer to the question "Who am I not?" and makes it clear that we are not limited to the body and the psyche. The focus is on consciousness itself and this consciousness is Ananda, pure joy. As consciousness, we inhabit these three bodies.
The purpose of answering the questions is to see the identifications with which we walk through life. If everything is taken away from us, for example through illness, we begin to change our perspective and start to realise that we may have made a little 'mistake' in our actions and existence. Suddenly this (or another) wake-up call is a crucial point for rethinking and reorganising our lives. Things that have long been important become unimportant, other things come to the fore; people who have long been companions are left; jobs are terminated; situations are exhausted ... the list of realisations is long and does not always feel comfortable in its 'schizophrenia'.
In order to relieve some of the tension on the all-important levels of body, mind and soul, as well as its existential conditions, it is important to turn inwards. A wonderful 'method' is SILENCE, which can, however, be practised in its fundamental way and accompanied by learning, e.g. in a SILENCE retreat.
I will gladly take you there if you like to hear the call.
Kati Tripura Voss
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