Get on the couch..your own

We all have "stuff." The kind that gives us stress-finances, the job, family (especially in these chaotic times!) The kind that keeps us limited and stuck-fear. The kind that cripples-self doubt.  Human nature is to analyze, we judge ourselves and how we relate to that model society casts for us. Gotta fit the mold. We judge. We become the product of  our fears, past programming, and the self doubt it creates in our mind.We become a self fufilling prophecy. The mantra of "I'm never gonna make it," You're just a---(fill in your own blank!) Our spirit sinks in the mire and muck of negative patterns and sluuurp-we get stuck there. That's a whole swamp full of goodies for us to wallow around in-if we choose to accept it.   No thank you-we don't have to! By using analysis to study the self, we can begin to wade our way out. When you hear that little voice in your mind beating you down-turn your attention internally and get on your own couch and inquire within. Why do I judge myself this way? Why do I feel "I'm not..( again, fill in your own blank!)  ...let the answer come to you, acknowledge it, but then release it.Through yoga, meditation, breathwork and svadyaya or self study we begin to come to the realization of our own true nature-we are boundless, limitless, formless-we are NOT our thoughts, mind, or body. Replace the "I'm not" with I am". Sit cross legged  with your eyes closed. Let your right arm be straight resting against the knee with the thumb and index finger connected. Bend the left arm and let the palm be in front of the heart, about four inches. Everytime you breathe in, let the left hand come out to about a foot from the heart and internally say " I am" and  see yourself expanding beyond your boundaries , into your own infinite nature. You ARE that...your spirit! Let yourself soar beyond the swamp, hose off the mud of negative thought, and then take that step off the couch, become who you were truly meant to be!