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may/june 2018yogajournal.com.aumanifest the life you wish to live, based on
your heart’s greatest wishes. You
can turn your pain into meaning and become
a leader and a healer in your own life and if it
is your path, you can support others on a
similar journey. When you reclaim the power
that you were robbed of through your sexual
abuse, you can stop the destructive and
addictive cycle you may find yourself in. It’s a
normal reaction to abuse of any kind, to in
turn start abusing yourself. You’ve been
implanted with the notion that this is all you
deserve. You feel tainted, worthless and you
feel that everyone knows you are ‘stained’ in
some way. The story in your head continues
to spin around and around and seemingly
there is no exit ramp to the now heavily
imprinted neural pathway of ‘not good
enough’. The wonderful news is this story can
be transformed. You can take the repetitive
‘broken record’ of negative inner dialogue and
smash it into a thousand pieces.
Visualise that broken record containing your
destructive thoughts breaking. Allow the pieces to
scatter and be swept away by a strong gust of wind.
Repeat this mini-meditation every time you feel the
old energy of self-loathing arise.Join me for this beautiful
self-healing yoga ritual
of asana, pranayama,
mudra, mantra and
meditation:
Smiling Meditation in Lotus Mudra on Heels:
Sit on your heels and and take Lotus Mudra by
taking Prayer Pose, then fanning out fingers, keeping
the pinky fingers and thumbs touching. Smile and
turn your inner dristhi (gaze) to your third eye chakra/
centre. Commence your yogic, three-part breathing
by inhaling from lower belly, filling and fanning the
ribcage, then chest to collar-bones and exhaling
releasing the breath until the lower belly is empty.
Continue to breathe in a full, deep, even way for a
2-3 minutes, smiling from within and receiving
Higher Energy through your Lotus cup. Visualise the
Lotus growing from the mud into the light and accept
that your pathway can be a similar journey, growing
from your personal ‘mud’, into freedom and
lightness. As you smile, feel the gratitude for your
life journey, trusting your pain is transmuting into
depth, meaning and understanding. Repeat 3 times:
“I allow myself to blossom into light and beauty”.