Who am I? If I am not the same person who could identify with a shoulder tension and then I couldn’t identify with me as I normally do during yoga practice.
- Andrea West
- May 4
- 1 min read
We usually identify who we are by attaching to what we are experiencing at that time.
I could easily experience myself as someone with shoulder tension in this posture. But with the tools given by the ancient yogis there wasn’t an experience of my shoulder or pain.
We see ourselves as someone who is in pain or pleasure; I am… a happy person because today is going well. I am … a miserable person because … of what is going on at the time that is unpleasant.
The identification is not made on solid ground as everything is changeable, even our body is changing.
In yoga we detach from the association with everything that is changing within ourselves and outside.
Thoughts stop,mind is clear and peaceful.
Pain and pleasure cannot be expressed when there isn’t a perspective of a person who is attaching to labels to describe themselves.
The ancient yogis gave us the tools to see beyond limitations.
Om Shanti 🙏
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