Nurturing a Home in Our Bodies

 We live our lives in our bodies. We interpret our external world through our inner world.

Our inner world consists of our stories - our beliefs, our interpretations, our visions and everything that makes us. A proverbial sanctum sanctorum. Our primary conditioning also forms a part of our inner world.

Unbeknownst to us, we absorb ideals from our external environment as we move through life. Especially those from childhood. We believe that these ideals are us. However, as we are older, and we become aware of these patterns, we learn to differentiate the auto-pilot ideals, with those that we choose.

As we are unlearning these past patterns, we are bound to face hostility from our biological self, our identifying mind. Because we've gotten so used to certain ways of thinking, and believing. This hostility is expressed as triggers, as body sensations.

Our bodies have evolved to capacitate the conversion of sensations into thoughts (narrative/interpretation).

When we make space to allow the discomforting sensations without making them mean something about us, we integrate them into our wholeness. We create a home for the discomfort, without creating an irrelevant identity for ourselves.

Each phase of our life can reveal new parts that we haven't accepted of ourselves. And each phase is a learning process, created for us to evolve into the next. As humans, we never stop learning. It's all about moving forward.

Every time we follow this practice, it teaches us to embrace the suppressed, dismissed and unwanted parts of us. These parts have never been that. But, we've been taught to believe that.

This creates a fierce sense of confidence in our imperfect sense of being. We begin accepting our flawed, natural selves - and lead with our raw authentic selves. Reclaiming each part feels like it has returned home, to ourselves.

Once we begin accepting our real selves, people may reject us. Only because we trigger parts of them that they haven't accepted for themselves. Our mirror neurons help us reflect others in our kind, and vice versa. We can only see what we think of us.

When we accept every fibre of being, we no longer stand defensive of ourselves in the face of others. It's easier to work with our true strengths, instead of what's been asked of us. It's easier to assert our needs without having to explain them.

We feel comfortable being in us, as ourselves, and we don't wanna run from us.