Inner Work Requires You To Deal With The Inner Chaos
Written by: Aishwarya Gopalakrishnan, Executive Contributor
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Forever misunderstood, forever unknown. These mysterious waters are dark, and darker still the deeper you go. We fear the unknown, the unexplored, the incomprehensible, fearing what we may find, what may spring up. And yet still, until you take the dive, you’d never see, how beautiful lighting up the dark can be. Don’t let your fears guide you, they often keep you from exploring possibilities that could change your life forever! Go within, explore the parts of yourself that you fear knowing, that you fear finding out.
I don’t know if my concept did justice to the way I captured this, but a lot of inner work involves dealing with your own inner chaos, the darkness of sorts, messy discomforting truths about yourself where you begin to observe and deal with it, begin to understand and sit with it, and to contain it takes a lot out of you. But once you do this, you free it as well, and that’s the key. It’s just the fear that keeps you from doing that. Maybe that’s why it feels tiring even though you’ve been sitting through it all day.
We all have an inner side that we tend to fear exposing to even ourselves. When you look into the mirror, what you really see is often just the surface levels of who you truly can be.
The next time a discomfort comes in, the next time you find yourself in chaos, I hope you invite it, sit with it and understand it without judgment, observe it. For once it’s recognized, it goes away. It’s a probably chatter of the mind.
Such is the nature of ego. It vanishes the minute you self inquire, the minute you question “Who am I?”
Aishwarya Gopalakrishnan, Executive Contributor Brainz Magazine
Aishwarya is a blogger who is passionate about yoga, meditation, sustainability and spirituality. She is an avid yoga & mindfulness practitioner who is also certified in the two respectively. She believes in living a holistic lifestyle & strives to incorporate elements rooted in ancient principles such as ayurveda, yoga, mindfulness & living a sustainable lifestyle. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge through her blogs. She is currently working towards her passion project that is aimed at creating an atmosphere for seekers & yoga practitioners alike. She hopes to bring this to the community very soon. She is an MBA, with an engineering undergrad who is a management consultant by profession.
