When a lotus seed is planted, it goes through days, even weeks, of darkness, then the first sprout breaks through its shell, & moves upwards, through the murky waters, against gravity. It does not know about the existence of the sky, it has never seen sunlight, nor heard the whispers of the birds. It has never felt the lightness of the air, nor the swaying of the gentle breeze. But still it moves, unperturbed, drawn upwards by unseen forces, until one day it breaks past the water's surface. & look what beauty comes out of this! Dear friends, any growth in life requires a certain amount of faith & discomfort. It involves a certain amount of fear too - & why not? One has never experienced such a situation before, so it is natural for the primal instinct & mind to demand security & control. But how much is too much? How much of our fear is legit, & how much is just the mind playing tricks? The mind is a master at playing tricks. It can create all sorts of doubts, just for the sake of avoiding something. Even when the facts are being presented right in front of our eyes, & the mind has processed it & knows it to be the truth, it is still able to conjure up its mischief, to escape the truth, no matter how absurd its actions may be. If we are determined to grow, we must be willing to go through some degree of not-knowing & discomfort. I'm not saying that one should become a masochist & go looking for discomfort or become an absolute knucklehead! We merely need to re-wire our brains to see these two elements in a different light. If you look at it logically, the unknown & our discomforts are what made us who we are today. When we were babies, the issue was, ‘I can’t crawl,' I do not know how to move around.' When we tried to get on our knees, we kept face-planting, 'This is new & strange to me,' ‘I keep hurting myself. This is a painful situation.' But we kept at it, & look at us now! Through discomfort & exploring the unknown, we learned how to overcome obstacles in life, thereby gaining new abilities & skills. If I told you, the number 8 has a certain fragrance to it; would you believe me? Mere jaan, life is an ocean of bliss. But if one is not willing to open one’s eyes towards this bliss…
Kya karun, mere jaan? Just like the lotus sprout had never seen the sky, how does one know what the possibilities are in life? If someone told you there is a chance to live life at a higher state, would you even consider trying it? If someone said that life could be more colourful, more joyous, more celebratory...would you believe them? Life is what you make out of it. Life is always a choice. At each moment, there are two options: am I going to languish, or flourish? Am I going to react according to my old patterns, or am I going to consciously make an effort to alter them? Am I okey staying in my comfort zone, even if there is no growth happening? Or am I going to take a risk to derive a new & possibly better result? & if I want a different result, surely the course & direction of my actions must change? Everything could be working in my favour, but at the end of the day, the decision lies in my hands - am I going to languish or fluorish? This changes everything. Mere jaan, the sky awaits.
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About Prabh LehriI am a yoga teacher based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I am passionate about yoga as a form of healing on the physical, emotional & mental level. I have been on a yoga journey for almost a decade and have been formally sharing my experience in the last 4 years. Archives
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