#4 Sweat Lodge - A personal journey to overcoming fear
The Native American Sweat Lodge has been used throughout time as an initiation process designed to catalyse the experience of transformation or rebirth.
I travelled to Portugal, for reasons many as I discuss in this episode. I took part in a Sweat Lodge ceremony. It was profound and I learnt many things.
It taught me about FEAR. And that ultimately, on the other side of that which we fear... we come to experience that 'we are ok'.
This ever-present 'it's ok' that exists for us all is extremely healing, comforting, and empowering.
I am on my personal journey in embodying all that I have come to learn over that past decade. Meditating every single day, practicing yoga diligently and consistently like a monk. It has been my life, but...
IT IS NOT ENOUGH.
Health, is something I am coming to re-define.
Health is a lifestyle. One's way of life is one's health. And my way of life has been self-sabotaging in many ways, regardless of daily meditation and yoga.
The self sabotage has been rooted in a deep seated fear. A fear of the unknown, and the attempt to make things stable and predictable has lead to addiction... smoking weed is one of my escapes.
Eating can be another escapist behaviour that creeps back into my lifestyle. When I speak of escapist eating... I refer to when one eats as a means to avoid boredom, uncertainty, or stressful, intense feelings.
It surprises me that although I have practiced meditation for so long, and have journeyed so deep through the yoga and internal arts, that I am still running...
The void has until now remained a challenge for me to relax into. And so I share all I do in this episode of SLFMASTERY with Coach Usmosis as a clearly vulnerable & wounded healer.
I am here to serve you all. But I am also in the midst of a deep learning process. The process of learning how to simply be healthy...
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