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How Do We Gain Enlightenment In 2022?
When I did my yoga teacher training one of the topics that I became most interested in was how yoga can be used as a tool to resolve my own personal issues and to become Enlightenment.
Difficult
I believe there are different levels or forms of enlightenment; from everyday moments to people who commit their lives to achieve it.
For me, I believe part of enlightenment is when you come to the realization, recognition and the awareness of who you are.
Memorable
A memorable moment help define it for me, this happened a few years back during a yoga class. While I focused on my breath and movements, I felt an indescribable rush through my body.
As I reached deeper into that feeling it felt like my body and my mind became one. Memories and emotions flowed through me, and I felt from a deep place something speak out. What awoke was the feeling that I hadn’t been listen to my heart or my soul for as long as I could remember.
Coexist
I became aware that I wasn’t living for myself, I was in fact just coexisting with society, my community. I was never a priority in my life, which created a wall between my mind and my soul. While also blocking truly connecting with other people.
So in this class, I did a lot of reflection during my meditation, I was aware of my mental state, my body, my feelings, my thoughts, it was only then then I realized that it was ME that I needed to focus on.
I had been surrounding myself with such great people through yoga guiding, teaching, positive energy. But it was only then, when I was looking at myself, a rush of heat and energy washed over me, filling me with a sense of pure bliss, this is where I needed to be teaching and devoting my love for yoga.
Satisfied
The satisfying awareness of our bodies, feelings, mental state, and the mind through body and soul. Aware that my teaching / knowledge, spirituality, and positive heart needed to guide the yoga family.
So I believe enlightenment is when you reach not only a deeper awareness and understanding of yourself. It’s a transformation, it opens opportunities as you let go of fear, to let other things fill that space.
It’s speaking into the unknown with courage, shifting your perspective slightly knowing that reality is still the same. But your part of it, not just floating along.
Persona
Although some people see enlightenment as some mystic event where you come back completely changed your whole persona, your personality and characteristics. The reality is actually a new sense of self and self awareness about recognizing your state of thought, strengths and weaknesses.
Compassion
When you devote the same kind of compassion and sense of awareness onto yourself as to others, you actually create more space and energy inside. You see things more clearly and to let more positive energy flow in.
It’s as though you were laying in bed half asleep, half awake, half dreaming, and you hear your alarm going off.
You’re conscious of it ringing but unsure what it means or what to do. You can hear it in your dreams although you don’t wake up to turn it off.
Enlightenment is like hearing the alarm through your dreams.