Balancing Truth, Change, and Consistency

MAY / INTUITIVE HEART GUIDANCE

Our Physical Body, the 5th body in Kundalini Yoga uses the nervous system to connect our mind, body, spirit. Through this connection we form an identity, and express that identity through many forms which creates our experience of the world. Living from a place of contentment and balance relies on a steadfast nervous system, one that can adapt and surrender to our ever-changing world. One that recognises that our security has been built on a stagnant story of consistency over truth. We’d rather cling to consistency believing the harder we hold; the less things will change.

Everything changes. Impermanence is the only thing that doesn’t change. We fight fearfully to our beliefs of who we think we are, and create a life of imbalance and suffering. Our greatest fear is death, and we pitch ourselves against death – the natural order of things, and in doing so, turn ourselves away from the flow of life. 

“The minute you start to try to live your life as if nothing will change, you become an enemy of the way of things”. Ram Dass

To live a balanced contented life, we need the mind, body, and spirit to be communicating from a strong nervous system creating a deep place of trust within us.  We need to trust in the fact that we know very little about what the future holds, who you will be when you grow up, or how it will all turn out. Learning to soften, surrender to change, allows space within your heart to open and accept instead of expecting; then life will continually surprise you. Then you learn the Leela – the divine play of life and can dance with change.  

When I look at my life now, there is very little from 25 years, 30 or even 40 years ago that remains of how I saw myself or how I thought my life would turn out. My life then, who I thought myself to be, has very little similarity to how it is now. There’s no way I knew anything about Kundalini Yoga or a spiritual path and I realise now, looking back, if I had resisted change instead of trusting something deeper within me, I wouldn’t be who I am now. (or who I will become). Who I am hardly recognises who I was back then, and who I was then may not have been here now to see these changes, and she certainty would have struggled to send compassion to her younger self. She would have judged, punished, and pushed harder instead of softening and surrendering. She would have longed for truth not realising it was her consistent fear patterns blocking her from truly being content. 

There is a story of Gandhi who was leading a march to protest the British. After a few days he realised there may be some bad consequences and he stopped the march. His Lieutenant said Gandhi Ji you can’t do this, people have left their homes, jobs, taken great risks to follow you. Gandhi replied,“ I have a misunderstanding… I’m only human I don’t understand all. My understanding of truth changes from day to day. My commitment is to truth not to consistency.” 

A lot of us have built our security on consistency, then projected that identity outward. It is possible on this path of no path; we can awaken a space deep inside of us to hear when our commitment to our consistency is greater than our commitment to our truth and allow that to change. Offering this truth to others and self, creates a new kind of consistency, one based on compassion, flexibility, openness, love, and truth. When we trust like this, we get to be at home with change. When we trust like this, we get to be at home with uncertainty. When we trust like this we relax not needing to know how it all turns out. There’s a special kind of freedom and peace that comes with that kind of change. 

Love, light, and laughter 

Devpreet 

MAKING FRIENDS WITH CHANGE / WORKSHOP