Yoga and emotional health: overcoming the identity crisis
According to yoga philosophy, the greatest challenge for human beings is to confront their own identity crisis.
Do we know each others ?
Our impoverished relationships with ourselves are characterized by a lack of listening, abandonment and respect for our intuition. Our real identity remains unknown to most of us. Without this inner anchor, we lack natural charisma and we go in search of a new reason for being. We clearly need an identity, but which one?
Installing Alternate Identity
When a person is spiritually healthy, he or she is self-sufficient. When there is an inner disconnection, we try to be enough through something else. A substitute identity is an identity created from scratch, which distances us from who we really are. These substitute identities give us a reason for being, a feeling of existing. Without them, it would be difficult for us to survive while being cut off from ourselves.
There are many possibilities for creating a false identity, and what constitutes a reason for being for one is not necessarily for another. Some simply do their job, for others it will give meaning to their existence. For many, a substitute identity will be built on motherhood or fatherhood. There is obviously nothing wrong with having children, but we can question what they really mean to us. Are we fully identified with these roles, or are the relationships more spacious?
A more or less noisy crisis
When we rely fully on a surrogate identity, we feel fulfilled. Most often, we are not aware of neglecting our real identity. She experiences her crisis in silence.
But substitute identities, built on external and changing bases, can slip through our fingers at any given moment. Subconsciously we know it. We devote enormous energy to maintaining the bonds that strengthen our diverse identities, to protecting the material things on which they rely. Because when a substitute identity escapes us, the crisis makes much more noise. We can no longer ignore it.
The moment to choose
The passage into the noisy phase of the identity crisis leaves us with a choice. Either we scrounge from all sides to try to reconstitute something of our illusory constructions and re-dress ourselves in the lost identity, or we rejoice at this opportunity to reconnect with ourselves more authentically.
False identities are always experienced in virtual worlds. Preoccupied with the future, the past, the views of others and our own criticism of ourselves, when we are far from ourselves we do not live in the present. Yoga brings us back there.
Emotional calm in the present moment
Through sensory awakening, and through presence in the body and breathing, yoga prevents us from letting ourselves be sucked into these virtual worlds. Substitute identities are experienced in the emotional body. The emotion is positive when the void is filled by a new role, and negative when an identity escapes me. By connecting with the body, calming your breathing and awakening your senses, you soothe the emotional body. It is only with the emotional body calmed that we can enter the present moment, see with the heart and connect with reality.
All the nobility of yoga
Well beyond a purely physical discipline, yoga allows us to escape from the identity crisis. Thanks to physical, respiratory and meditative practices, we gain access to the emotional appeasement and mental strength necessary to rediscover our true reason for being.
And this is where the essential reason for yoga lies.
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