We have so many ideas about ourselves and so many roles we play, sometimes we forget who we truly are underneath it all. I love teaching little kids meditation, as they haven’t been told as deeply yet, what they can and can’t be according to everyone else’s limited ideas. They truly believe still they can be anything, be anyone.
But as we get older, stuff sticks and we have negative biases and concepts that seem to form like concrete in our brains, seemingly solid ideas about how we, and the world around us works. And without them, these ideas, the world can seem scary, so it makes sense for us to hold onto them. And sitting with ourselves without it all can be tricky stuff. We sense the futility in engaging with our moods too deeply as they too pass. If our emotions pass so quickly, what then is our whole identity even built on at one point we question?
When we make a commitment to challenge what we apparently believe, and find the truth that lies quietly underneath it, it can be lonely and scary, but the reward is far greater than the repetitive relieving of these fleeting feelings, trust me.
Written with love,
Jac x
L E T T E R from Jac – Willingness
