“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
– Alan Watts (philosophical entertainer)
He said that – At root, there is simply no way of separating self from other, self-love from other-love. All knowledge of self is knowledge of others, and all knowledge of other knowledge of self. I begin to see that self and other, the familiar and the strange, the internal and the external, the predictable and the unpredictable imply each other. In the features of everything foreign… and remote I begin to recognize myself. Yet this is a “myself” which I seem to be remembering from long, long ago— not at all my empirical ego of yesterday, not my specious personality.
“The inner self is a state of consciousness” that can be accessed through meditation and introspection, which promote greater self-awareness and acceptance. Yoga philosophy views each person’s core self as perfect, but aims to help bring awareness to negative patterns or thoughts that may not be serving a person’s higher purpose. Yoga & meditation is the process of cleaning the mind of all the things that keep “the true inner self from shining through.”
The “myself” which I am beginning to recognize, which I had forgotten but actually know better than anything else, goes far back beyond my childhood, beyond the time when adults confused me and tried to tell me that I was someone else.. Long before all that, long before I was an embryo in my mother’s womb, there looms the ever-so-familiar stranger, the Everything Not Me, which I recognize, with a joy immeasurably more intense than a meeting of lovers separated by centuries, to be my Original Self.
The inner self is an individual’s personal, internal identity – one that is distinct from identities defined by external, social forces and relationships. It is closely linked to a person’s values, beliefs, goals and motivations.
The term also implies “a level of authenticity” not associated with external identities and labels; it is the “true self.” Many refer to the inner self as the soul, particularly in spirituality. Meditation and yoga have been used for thousands of years as a way “to tune into the body and access and align with the inner self.”
Dr. Sunetra Javkar 9820373281 Maharashtra — Hypnotherapist, Life Coach, mind counselor & Naturopath. Past life regression therapist & Crystal Therapist.
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