Our world is shaped by what we experience as two. The one side or the other, opposites like push and pull, holding onto and letting go, effort and rest, light and darkness, success and failure.
By reading these examples, you might notice a tendency inside of you, a little judgement, a value that we connect to one side as a better, as the side to run after, to chase, maybe it suits us better, maybe we made better experiences in the past and find this pattern again. Or maybe we just don’t feel comfortable with the other side, the side we don’t pursue, the “bad” side. It seems like we try to not define it as something helpful or nourishing or something that brings us forward. But what is this “getting forward” actually?
Don’t we loose ourselves, while running away from one and towards the whatsoever “better”? Let me ask you: Have you ever felt helpless, because you ran so far in the “better” direction without actually feeling better? When you catch your breath for a moment, you start realising that you gave your whole energy into running towards “the better”, without actually feeling a shift to being better, the running just let you avoid for a moment – while we find the answer in the word itself A – VOID – because actually “the better” doesn’t exist in this direction, we’re running out of energy and creating a – void. Then you find yourself without breath, because what you were doing the whole time was just INhaling. We’re chasing the one side of duality, but have you ever INhaled without EXhaling?
Inhaling without exhaling – how do we exist?
Think about this really simple example of how you felt, when you were nervous giving a presentation, your breath didn’t flow, you were standing there, gasping in, another one in, until you realise you’re standing in anxiety and you urgently need to exhale. You experienced a moment of avoiding one side. This shows us something really clear and simple: After all duality is just an illusion we create. Inhaling and exhaling are creating the breath of existence, it appears as one, the definition of duality in it is just a description of the act itself. But what we see, as we stand there presenting, properly inhaling and exhaling, is a calm and balanced mind, a unity.
“Yoga” itself means unity, oneness – we are whole and we live with clarity by facing light and darkness, no effort comes without rest, success and failure walk hand in hand. In each of us flows female and male energy, the Ida and Pingala Nadi. We’re channeling intuition and rationality, cold and warm, the sun and the moon – one day you feel more sleepy, calm and quiet for yourself, the other day active, like moving forward and extroverted. By balancing these two over time we reach inner clarity, a deep acceptance, we feel balanced and wholesome. Our central energy system is active, we feel fulfilled inside of us and this fulfilment lets all dualities disappear. We are one.
Maybe you remember a moment, where everything felt like it was in the right place, harmonic and just as it’s supposed to be?
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