712 thoughts on “Anger, what Anger? The Joy & Appreciation of Esoteric Yoga”

1. This makes so much sense Gyl, that when we are judgemental, hard and critical of ourselves we are more likely to feel angry. The anger comes from a deep sadness and it stems from the disconnection from our essence/soul.

2. Observation is a great tool: it’s like an allowing of space, in which we get to feel that the thoughts and emotions aren’t really the core of who we are, but stuff on the surface, temporarily obscuring the strength and power that can come through us. We don’t even have to work on letting this stuff go: when we realise it’s there, and see it as the transient veil that it is, we can choose to keep perpetuating its existence, through believing it’s part of us, or not.

3. I have found the experience of Esoteric Yoga to be very revealing as to my current state of being, as my body begins to share the moment the session starts and doesn’t stop until it finishes, and often even a long time afterwards. In the beginning I really didn’t want to hear the messages as they were asking for change in the way I was living, but these days I welcome them as I know my life will only benefit in many ways from doing so.

4. What lies underneath all the thoughts and beliefs that we accumulate, and what is at the heart if the matter is the truth – the love, sweetness, purity and all the things you wrote about- that we are. This is absolute and unchangeable.

5. I am not surprised that you cried when you heard these words “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else. They offer a beautiful stop moment to honestly feel into the way we live including the way we are with ourselves. I love how Esoteric Yoga offers stop moments like this and many more, to support us when we choose to reconnect to the wonderful beings that we naturally are.

6. The gift of Esoteric Yoga is that it allows us to come to know who you are, through deepening our connection to our inner-most, our inner-stillness, where love is what defines us and our living way.

7. Love the simplicity… when we feel a warmth and glow inside our gorgeous body how can emotions hold any sway?

8. “Anger, what Anger? The Joy & Appreciation of Esoteric Yoga” – the effects of doing Esoteric Yoga and a series of sessions too are far beyond what you may initially consider before taking up the practice of stillness through this Yoga because it highlights how you are in reality living life (eg in emotion, tension, exhaustion and so on)…. to what you have “pressed pause” on towards living more truly and spaciously. Two pictures, two views you can work on to develop a true relationship with yourself.

9. I started a yoga program and at the moment I just can’t get enough of it, my body is just craving it, the stillness, the connection. Every session has something unique to offer. Whilst a couple of years ago, my body just wasn’t ready for it.

   But this statement “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” is a biggie and worthy of pondering on our day to day life whether we do yoga or not.

10. “The Joy & Appreciation of Esoteric Yoga” – develops the joy and appreciation of oneself [through stillness].

11. Esoteric yoga allows the space to come back to myself and this is not something special, just a choice I can make any moment through being connected with my body in a loving way.

12. This is very cool Gyl how you were able to observe your patterns and habits with ‘tenderness and grace’. Often I have noticed that when I realise something e.g. a behaviour I am doing or when something ugly about my life gets exposed, I can quickly react to this and go into self judgement or self bashing and overly focus on the imperfections rather than feeling and appreciating the power and volume of love that I am and that I live. To do this is a trick and it means I don’t get the full healing on offer in that moment. So approaching healing from the perspective that we are already divine and enough as we are and simply observing those behaviours or habits which are not part of this divinty is a great thing to be able to do and does lead to greater changes actually happening.

13. It’s really funny how we stubbornly want to stay in something even though we’re no longer feeling that emotion. I’ve experienced that before, where you feel like you need to prove a point by staying stuck in anger or whatever. It’s crazy and isn’t even fun!! Realising it and letting it go….so much more fun!

14. Esoteric Yoga peels away the layers of what is sitting in our bodies that we are unaware of when we are constantly in motion. It is a practice that evolves our relationship with our bodies and with the source we are from, offering us a tangible experience of love in stillness and in motion.

15. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” This is a profound understanding of love.

    1. It is so simple isn’t it? When we see someone displaying anger towards someone, it is in fact a sign that they are first angry with themselves, this means we don’t have to take things personally, whatever happens.

16. Gyl all you have shared here encompasses the tenderness, love, and clarity available in an Esoteric Yoga session. We are held in such love that we can learn from the sessions to have a new relationship to ourselves that is very tender and self loving.

17. Wow — thank you Gyl, this blog hugely touched me.. I have walked my life in protection and judgement; being super critical and judgemental.. And what I am feeling is that I am actually not that, and that I am actually hiding myself when I take those emotions serious and allow them through.. And from there on I can feel how much more I am willing to admit that those judgements have always put up a wall towards the intimacy with myself and others.. And how I no longer want to be known for being critical, judgemental or hard or beating myself up.. Its time to let my true expression come out that actually offers me to be me and others to be them.

18. What a beautiful modality Esoteric Yoga is. Having tried many other styles of yoga nothing like this ever came up in any class. I have, however, had similar experiences with Esoteric Yoga. Really supporting us to return to who we are through developing awareness of our body and development stillness in movement.

19. There is so much in this blog. I know my judgement and harshness of myself. I am this way with others and it feels completely at odds with the love I know I am.

20. Its a beautiful moment when we realise we are not anger or sadness, it is not who we are. We may be feeling this way. But all that is needed is to nominate it rather than to own or embody it. I know I have done that latter many times.

    1. Very wise words Jennifer. Once we let go of identification with our emotions it is actually very liberating and we can feel so much lighter in our body. When we become identified with our emotions, we very quickly feel weighed down because the vibrations of any emotions we taken on are dense, heavy and work to keep us contracted, small and drained.

21. As I discard that which is not me the more I am being presented with more to discard. The key is not to judge or compare myself to where I have been but to accept what is there coming up in my body eg.I may have been feeling moments of delicacy in my body which I am beginning to embrace and then suddenly I feel a hardness. It doesn’t mean I have lost the delicacy or fragility but it means there is some hardness to feel and discard so that I can embody a deeper level of delicacy or another divine quality. There is no such thing as right or wrong so it doesn’t make sense to compare but to allow what is there that is true to be exposed and come to light to clear.

22. I find this happens as well when I’ve been emotional, frustrated or angry and someone truly meets me by asking how I am going, it’s like an instant stop, and I realise in truth none of that is how I actually am or feel. It’s an awesome opportunity to then look at how I let those emotions in and then what I got out of them, usually distraction, to allow them to flourish.

    1. What a great opportunity to see what purpose emotions serve in our lives, they stand out, they get noticed and perhaps they can be great stops to ask how we got to where we got to.

23. We think what is said to ourselves is private and only for us. So if we are are own worst self critique or judger then we only believe this is how we are to ourselves and ‘never would we do this to someone else’ and yet it’s truly the opposite. We can’t turn a tap on and off as we please and so the way we are with ourselves actually is the marker for how we are with others and so with this in mind it pays to take true care of yourself knowing this is the marker we share outward to all. The article highlights how we can be with ourselves and make all manner of comments, even if they don’t make sense to what’s around us and then how this translate to all relationships thereafter.

24. Esoteric Yoga gives us an opportunity to deeply connect with our body, which supports us to build trust in what the body is trying to tell us.

25. This is a beautiful and honest sharing Gyl on the power of the Esoteric Yoga Modality and how it provides the space for us to stop and connect deeply with our bodies and to feel the loveliness of who we truly are without any mind chatter getting in the way.

26. It is silly and a lot of the time a trick we use, to stay in a reaction so as to distract ourselves from the truth of who we are – which is love. So when we judge ourselves by whatever reaction we have chosen to express – stop and come back to truth. Even if we have been love, stop also and feel a deeper part of this truth.

27. Such a gorgeous sharing Gyl reflecting the truth so powerfully, of how we are not our emotions but so much more. We can so quickly get caught up in thinking that we are the emotion we are experiencing, but as you have wisely shown us there is always a truer quality of who we are, residing deeper within. And what’s more is that when we are willing to be honest with how we are feeling within ourselves and our bodies, we come to understand that when we are feeling emotional we are experiencing a disconnection to who we really are, and the opportunity is always there for us to return to being in connection to the quality of stillness we are within, where our Soul is what truly defines who we are.

28. I love those moments of realisation where we question why on earth we are feeling angry, sad, inadequate etc. Of course there are circumstances that lead to this, but occasionally there is a light bulb moment that reminds us we don’t have to take that on, that we are already everything.

29. Thank you Gyl, this was a joy to read again. The mind has its own version of events and ourselves, but the body communicates the truth. Sometimes we can tell ourselves we are doing well when the body is actually tense and exhausted, or feel very unappreciative of ourselves when our body actually is reflecting our many amazing qualities.

    1. Beautifully and wisely shared Melinda. Within our body is where we can always come to know the truth, and live the wisdom of who we are.

30. It’s can quite revealing when we realise that how we are with us is how we are with others; it kills any thoughts of our ‘own private idahos’ and shows how everything is connected and affects everything. We are part of one huge whole.

31. When we commit to live in constant appreciation of our own quality there is absolutely no room for anything which is not from that essence, and so when emotions come up they stick out like a sore thumb and are easier to renounce.

    1. What a beautiful way to live, committed to being in the “constant appreciation of our own quality”.

32. Amazing how we hold onto something that is not even true and create an issue. Simply allowing ourselves to observe what is going on opens up space for what is at the deeper level to come to the surface. Esoteric Yoga divinely supports us in that.

    1. Thank you Fumiyo, observing also allows us to stay connected to our essence.

33. Thank you Gyl I am inspired by the realisations that your session with Esoteric yoga gave you, the body has so much to share if we are open to listen and receive, I appreciate these words today ” As I lay there I thought, “That’s easy, I feel angry this morning”. I had felt this way since I woke up but couldn’t work out why, and looking back, I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.”

34. So much of what we think is just not true at all. How amazing to be able to surrender to our bodies, where the truth lies.

35. What a massive realization Gyl. A great one to pin on the wall. It made me think of how when we express, even if it’s what we would call loving, if we have not the love in our body to offer we cannot but help give this lack of love in our expression. How we are with others begins with how we are with our own livingness.

36. Thank you Gyl for saying that which is true: we are not any loveless thought or emotion, we are worthy of love.

37. Thank you Gyl. I have been identifying with my emotions as long as I’ve been indulging in them and it’s a recipe for staying stuck where I am. It is lovely to be reminded that we can connect back to our true essence at any time.

38. It is only in the moments of stillness that we get to know ourselves as the all knowing divine beings that we truly are.

39. Great point that we magnify whatever emotion we are in by thinking about it and trying to figure it out in our minds, instead of just observing that it’s there. When we try to work out our emotions from the state of being in them, we wrap ourselves even more tightly in them. When we observe them from the sidelines, they are much clearer and we can feel that they are not us, and let them go.

40. Amazing how the mind can fool us into thinking we are a certain way, even when the body is communicating a completely different feeling and connection to our being – wonder what else the mind is lying about.

41. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. This clearly defines how we can enjoy loving relationships with others just by comitting to develop a true relationship with self first with a foundation of self love and appreciation for who we are.

42. A big revelation here Gyl! Especially your realisation that how we are with ourselves is how we are with all!

43. Beautiful Gyl, it is exquisite when we allow ourselves to feel how gorgeous we are. What you’ve shared confirms how powerful it is to connect to our body.

    1. I agree Chan, it is easy to focus on the tiny thing that we believe is ‘wrong’ but there is huge potential in simply appreciating what is true.

44. ‘How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else’… Life and the world around us merely reflects back to us exactly like a mirror what we have put out in the past, a fact that we are all here to not only learn but honour and appreciate.

45. I have often had a similar experience with Esoteric Yoga sessions. I get to the first layer which may be a reaction or emotion, but if I keep feeling this is a wafer thin layer, under which is a delicious solid feeling of the real me. This has shown me that it is futile to get stuck on that surface layer, as it is nothing compared to what is always inside of us.

    1. So true Fiona, a beautiful reminder that we are so much more under these layers of emotions and drama. They act as a barrier that stops us connecting and expressing from our essence. Esoteric Yoga is amazing in supporting us to let go of these layers and connect to the gold underneath that is in all of us.

46. Lovely to revisit this blog and feel the truth that is presented here. We are not our emotions and nor is anyone else theirs. How great it is when we can support each other to be who we truly are by being who we truly are.

47. Thank you Gyl, lovely to read again. There are literally miracles after miracles within any one Esoteric Yoga session, to me these are grand opportunities to heal all that we believe to be true, and instead simply surrender to the pure truth of ourselves.

48. I never stop being amazed at the information my body gives me when I connect and ‘listen’ to it. Oh, what would be like if we were all taught this from the earliest age?

49. It’s really true how if we feel an emotion and hang onto it, it wears us down easily and can potentially turn a very lovely day into a difficult one.

50. It’s almost as if we find basking in our misery fun and also as though it’s a right of passage. Stubborn as we are, we dig our heals in but then there are moments like this where you shake your head and say to yourself ‘what am I doing??’

51. A beautiful sharing of what is possible when we connect to our essence Gyl. It is so simple and yet we are the masters of complication!

52. This really goes to show how we can feed our emotions – OR connect to the body and the inner rhythm of stillness where there is no place for the hightened emotion we thought was so real.

53. “…The anger had been something that was not part of me, something I thought I felt, from my head, but in truth when I allowed myself the time and the space to stop and truly connect to my body, I could actually feel how lovely I was…” From what you share, and from my experience with Esoteric Yoga, it is quite clear that we can incorrectly identify ourselves by an emotion we experience or live in a way that it is constantly there if we don’t deal with any of our issues. Through reconnecting to our natural essence, exquisite stillness and some call it ‘love’ we can clearly see and feel how an emotion is actually an imposition and the complete opposite of who we naturally are.

54. One of the brilliant things about Esoteric Yoga is how many things simply fall away in a session, like emotions, thoughts and behaviours, and how this supports the true essence of who we are to emerge. On the surface it looks like very little is happening, but boy is there actually a lot happening! There are so many realisations and awarenesses taking place, and a reconnection to our inner essence – it’s like being given a chance to meet ourselves again and get to know who we are. The body is extraordinary, and when connected to it continually offers the truth.

55. When we connect deeply with our bodies there is nothing else than our divine spark, a place where no emotions can ever exist, only the pure love that connects us all equally.

56. Esoteric Yoga allows us the opportunity to stop and feel how our body is, and the space to reconnect, and at the same time feel into why our body is feeling that way and the choices we made to result in that feeling.

57. The Esoteric Yoga gives us much to appreciate and when we feel the stillness in our body it feels very natural, and gives us a great marker to live by.

58. Through participation in Esoteric Yoga sessions, I have been able to feel the truth of these words. For example: If we are not aware of the tenderness that is within the body and how this feels in our daily movements,, how can we reflect and share this with another,
    “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”

59. Finding my connection again, which was because of the way Esoteric Yoga is presented, has brought me to the deep awareness of my body and this is truly amazing seeing I was so lost with a body that was completely numb.

60. More and more I am feeling the truth of what true love actually is. It is impossible to love another unless we are in the absolute love for ourselves first and when we feel the absolute love sometimes with the support of Esoteric Yoga, an incredible modality brought through Serge Benhayon, we cannot but feel the absolute love for everyone and everything.

61. It is amazing to feel how through our connection to our bodies, we can return to being the love we truly and naturally are, first and foremost. It is empowering to realise that it is only through our separation to our love, that comparison, anger and frustration exist. For in stillness our love is known, and it is here that we can live who we truly are, through our every day.

62. This is simple yet truly profound “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”, when we choose to deeply love and honour ourselves there is a flow-on effect that all relationships are blessed by.

63. This morning I was attending the first session of an online program of six Esoteric Yoga classes for women where we have the opportunity to explore our relationship with stillness, without having images of what stillness is. I guess it was for the first time I lay down on my mat without expectations on myself and wow this opens up a new world as “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” Esoteric Yoga, I just love it!

64. OMG what a super powerful stop-you-in-your-tracks moment “There came an amazing moment (actually there were lots, but this one still stands out) when it was presented to us that, “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. Absolute gold!

65. It is the quality of relationship we have with ourselves first that we meet the world with, and Esoteric Yoga offers a true way to reconnect and deepen that which is innate in us all to know us by the stillness, love and tenderness that we are first and that way we can also appreciate it in others first.

66. “As I worked through the Esoteric Yoga session, allowing myself a deeper connection to my body and self, I let go of all these thoughts that were not me.” – how powerful is that, giving yourself the time and space to deeply connect with your body and innermost and from that have a marker to let go of all that does not feel true. Our thoughts can seem so convincing but bringing a deeper awareness to them and the quality they are in helps us discern if they are helping or hindering.

67. Beautiful sharing Gyl, this line “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” really stood out for me today, it has been a deepening understanding of the responsibility I have to bring love into everything aspect of my life, knowing that this is reflected out to others.

68. I had a similar realisation with a recent Esoteric Yoga Course. I was feeling pretty miserable with myself during the day, feeling sorry for myself and when I sat up in the yoga course and began to check in with my body, I felt lovely. There was an ease and a deeper stillness that I definitely had not connected to during the day and it was there immediately I had re-connected. It’s got me wondering why I have given my mind and my thoughts so much power over the years, when really our bodies say it all, with honesty, truth and grace. I can say with certainty that my mind has never offered me this ever. How important is it that we appreciate our bodies and their constant communication?

    1. Stories like these need to be shared because in society how many of us are giving rise to the emotions we live in everyday and seeing them constantly as being real, when deepdown often they are not. What I’ve learnt in Esoteric yoga sessions as well, is that there is a part of me that loves the distraction emotions give or the drama an argument offers. Esoteric Yoga for me is like standing in front of a mirror looking deep within my eyes and going ‘there I am!’ and all else is just stuff.

69. What a telling observation, that how we are with others is simply a magnification and reflection of how we are with ourselves. It certainly makes you sit up and take notice of whenever the tendency to blame others kicks in. Seen in this light, just how relevant can blame be?

70. It just goes to show that when we stop and connect deeply with ourselves – as Esoteric Yoga provides the space for us to do – we find love is our deepest and most foundational aspect. The rest is surface dressing – albeit all too real at times – but to be acknowledged and moved on from just the same.

71. Yes Gyl, what a great realisation to have and live; “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. This is so true and allows us a deeper understanding of ourselves and others. When we are loving and nurturing with us, this is naturally the quality we bring to others.

72. Looking back at this blog, I realise I still do this ” I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.’ which goes to show things don’t magically disappear overnight, we have to keep working on them.

73. It’s great to re-visit this blog and reflect upon the number of times I’ve also come to an Esoteric Yoga session, feeling an ‘intensity’ within myself about something, and then, through keeping it simple, and staying attentively with my own body, so much shifts… there can be a deeper surrender to ourselves, beyond any tension or ‘issue’ – showing how the way we move and quality of how we are with our own bodies is key.
    As you’ve shared Gyl, trying to ‘figure it all out’ (with our heads) can potentially create only more complication within.

74. “…“how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. Hmmmm – how often do we do negative self-talk? Time to change that and accept and appreciate ourselves more.

75. Taking the time to participate in modalities such as esoteric yoga is a commitment to self, and how you treat yourself is how you will be with others.

76. Spot on Gyl, we are magnifying our patterns when we go into the mind to try to figure it out, if we simply surrender we realise we don’t always need the answer.

    1. A great awareness to have; where we choose to place our focus is the quality we then magnify in our own bodies and reflect to all others equally.

77. Oh gosh, beyond words of how right it was for me to read this today and hear the words of wisdom you shared with us. How I am with others, is how I am with myself. The tears flowed as I had this realisation for myself and I opened the door every so slightly more to being loving and graceful with me and less hard. Thank you.

78. ‘What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am.’ What a beautiful way to describe the blessing available to us all through Esoteric Yoga modality.

79. I love your honesty Gyl and can so relate to going into comparison even if I am on my own! Recognising that how I am with myself is reflected in how I am with others has deepened my commitment to letting go of anything that does not support me to live in a loving way. Definitely still a work in progress but it is so amazing to release things like anger that I used to think were part of who I was. I would lose myself in a whirl of emotions and negatively impact myself and anyone who was unfortunate to come into contact with me for hours and sometimes days at a time and the agitation and discomfort this left in my body is something I am still unravelling and which Esoteric Yoga is an awesome support with.

80. Ah esoteric yoga, heaven on earth! Truth be told, it is one of the clearest indicators to me that we have all that we are looking for, always have, and that connection with heaven inside is to be lived for others to discover inside themselves as well so no one is left less or behind.

81. Beautiful Gyl, a great insight into the truth our body holds about ourself and life, and the false thoughts that come in from the mind polluting our pure connection, leading to false perceptions. I can also see that because Esoteric Yoga deepens our own connection to our body, we are offered a greater connection to our inner truth.

82. Great point Doug, I also feel to take this onboard for there is much to self-reflect-on, on what Gyl has shared.

83. Remembering my first Esoteric Yoga sessions where I would fall asleep and snore! This was because I was so disconnected to my body that I was not taking responsibility for being connected to my essence, inner-most or soul. As I have deepened my awareness of my connection, my Esoteric Yoga has helped me bring about amazing healing for my body, as you have so lovingly shared Gyl.

84. Thanks for sharing your experience so honestly, this type of yoga, asks for a depth of connection that most of us spend the better half of the day avoiding, not deliberately but at the same time it is deliberate, for if we allowed stillness throughout the day it would not be so confronting to be faced with all of our choices when we get on the mat for yoga. Esoteric Yoga asks us to bring awareness to our everyday, it’s a true gift to humanity.

85. Esoteric Yoga really highlights the difference living from our minds and living from our body. The former lives off hearsay, expectations and past experiences whereas the latter works with the here and now with no judgements or expectations for the moment to be anything other than what it is.

86. Esoteric Yoga really highlights the difference living from our minds and living from our body. The former lives off hearsay, expectations and past experiences whereas the latter works with the here and now with no judgements or expectations for the moment to be anything other than what it is.

87. I love how you expressed the humbleness that came with feeling, from your body, the hardness you treated yourself with was also with how you treated others and that this was no longer something you wanted to choose for yourself knowing it affects others too. The grace this humility brings is so delicate and honours everyone. Reading this I can feel the hardness in me dissolve as I reconnect with the grace this understanding allows.

88. This is a beautiful and powerful testimony of the revealing and healing that is offered with Esoteric Yoga. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” there is no escaping the truth of this fact.

89. In recent weeks I have been dropping the judgement and criticism I have been levelling at myself (and therefore others too), replacing it instead with acceptance and appreciation. I can honestly say that I am blossoming as a result.

90. I love this line about “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”, because this is how love grows on earth, with self-love we can extend love out to the people we meet, and then love gets expanded.

91. How you are with yourself is how you are with others, I love this Gyl and I love your awareness in shifting the anger; a gorgeous transformation and lesson for us all;
    “There was no anger, no judgment, no hardness, blame or comparison, just a feeling of absolute deep contentment, joy, connection and space; I could appreciate and feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am”.

92. How our mind can trick us. I know I can be so grumpy in the morning but more and more I feel I make this choice to act grumpy but it is not who I am and it is such a joy to discover that, yes I can still be tired in my body but when I feel underneath the grumpy and tired feeling there is so much more to connect to and Esoteric Yoga has played a big part in choosing to feel my connection to what is true.

93. Great insight that how we treat ourselves, we then treat everyone else – and vice versa, of course. And no amount of smiles and protestation to the contrary can negate that fact, something we can all feel.

94. A perfect example of the true depth and power available to us through esoteric yoga… exposing the mistruths we can run with and revealing the amazing qualities we naturally possess.

95. I love how you say ‘I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out’, it’s so true, the more focus we give to something the bigger and more uncontrollable it gets, and suddenly we’re giving all our attention to something we’re angry about, that’s not even part of us, instead of giving everything to who we are and never letting that go.

96. Great sharing. Love how you shared that the anger was not a part of you, but we can think it is us because thats what our mind does! Its harder to consider this when we are angry because we have bought into the emotion, it is not until we consider the possibility that we are naturally amazing that it starts to shift.

97. I have found Esoteric Yoga to be very supportive in building a foundation within myself of stillness, it hasn’t been easy at times, as my mind has wanted to take over in many a session, but continuing with Esoteric Yoga has assisting in bringing myself to my body, developing a deeper connection with it and allowing myself to feel, something I have avoided most of my life.

98. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everybody else”. I love this quote Gyl, it is simple yet wise and profound; certainly something to be aware of, ponder and take responsibility for.

99. Gyl I too find that one of the most powerful aspects of Esoteric Yoga is the spaciousness and permission we are given to simply observe and honour what is in the body to be felt.

100. The Esoteric Yoga modality is deeply healing on so many levels, I am starting a new program this week and I am looking forward to deepening the connection and stillness within myself and then taking this to the world. Esoteric Yoga is a powerful modality that supports us in so many ways – it has been a true blessing in my life.

101. I just booked a new 6 weeks online esoteric yoga program, for me this is part of my medicine. It is a way to connect with myself more deeply and to deepen the quality of stillness that is within all of us. It really supports me and after having done many kind of yoga’s, this is for me the only true yoga there is.

102. Thanks Gyl for sharing your lovely reflections that deepened as your yoga session unfolded. It seems to me that this widespread hardness we commonly hold ourselves in, along with the associated self judgement, is the underlying cause of so many of the problems we come up against in life. Learning to change these patterns is a big job but so fundamental in building a foundation of self valuing.

103. It’s very beautiful to read how the truth disperses the falseness we invest in – no matter how much or how long. And because it is so very simple, we realise the depth of love we have always been held in, and that is very humbling.

104. “…“Anger – what Anger? I feel lovely.” This made me smile deeply inside and really struck a chord with me, as I knew this was how I truly felt. The anger had been something that was not part of me, something I thought I felt, from my head, but in truth when I allowed myself the time and the space to stop and truly connect to my body, I could actually feel how lovely I was.” This is a beautiful example of how we can create something that is not true, and then believe that it is. When the whole time we are in fact lovely underneath it all. It is gorgeous to allow this loveliness to shine rather than get caught up in, and live something that is not true. Thank you for sharing Gyl.

105. I love the simplicity of this Gyl, it is just a choice, a choice to come back to our body. And it shows that any emotion is in truth never the truth of our body

106. Thank you Gyl, I loved reading your blog about the realisation that underneath it all, we are deep and pure love.

107. For me too Linda, esoteric yoga helps to remember and reconnect to the power we have deep within, but all too often lose sense of in the noise and chaos of life. The yoga brings me back to a quality of stillness and helps me to hold that quality when I go back into the fray.

108. Beautifully said Leigh our essence, our true self, is far grander than any issue the world can throw at us… and connecting to that essence through Esoteric Yoga with the connection and presence in our body is a powerful way of experiencing it. This is true power and grandness relegating any perceived issue or hurt back into its proper place as part of the illusion we have fallen for for too long.

109. Focusing on our perceived issues such as ‘I feel angry’ or reacting ( which is again a focus) on how judgmental or critical we have been towards ourselves, as you shared Gyl, only keeps them hanging around. Esoteric Yoga has a way of asking us to step back from this in moments seemingly inescapable grasp and look at the bigger picture. Our bodies and our essence and our ability to feel energy are far bigger than any issue; we create the image of it being bigger than us.

110. Because the word Esoteric means inner-most and there is no specific person or group that this relates to, it is just inner-most, which everyone has access to.

111. Your blog about Esoteric Yoga is very poignant Gyl, as your words during …“Anger – what Anger? I feel lovely.” really demonstrate the imposition of emotion on to the body which we then can easily be taken over by, and then identify ourselves as that. And yet, with the practice of Esoteric Yoga, you can easily see and feel the distinct difference between you, the body of love and this emotional imposition… We do have a choice… to be or not to be!

112. Having had an Esoteric Yoga session via a recording this morning I experienced much of what you’ve shared here Gyl. Our movements bring us our experiences and they bring us energy because without energy there is not experience. But one energy is from who we truly are the the other is not, the energy that is not us gives us all those harsh thoughts and emotions and wants to try and hunt for the answer to the problem. But it will never give the answer as it’s sole purpose is to survive for itself and be the only energy rather than supporting anyone let alone the body it is moving through. The energy we truly are loves the body and it feels amazing to work with this energy but also allows us to be aware of the other. The power of our movements is huge and it is amazing to have Esoteric Yoga available to highlight and remind us of this power.

113. …”when I allowed myself the time and the space to stop and truly connect to my body, I could actually feel how lovely I was…” This is the true gift and power of Esoteric Yoga… To be able to feel the two things going on, To connect to the body and feel your true essence, love of your being, and then be able to see and feel the imposition of an emotion. Incredible how stillness separates the two, creating space and thus clarity and connection.

114. The phrase, “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” is one that speaks to the level of responsibility we hold in each and every moment for the impact of our choices on everything and everybody – including and starting with ourselves.

115. Gyl, I can totally understand how you felt upon realising that “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”, as it was a huge aha moment for me – a real life changer in fact. This amazing modality that you write about has been such a steady support in the developing of my relationship with my body; a relationship that has blossomed so beautifully, and as a result so have my relationships with others.

116. Amazing how thin the layers of emotion are compared to the universe of joy and stillness that is underneath.

     1. So true Felix, I have been increasing aware of just how thin these emotions and problems are. Because when I move in a different way, the issue fades. It is only an issue as long as I make it an issue. Layers can be built up and it appears as though it is a big thing or it takes a while to return to my stillness and warmth but that doesn’t mean that each layer isn’t tissue paper thin.

     2. That struck me too Felix, how easy it is to latch onto those layers of emotion like anger say and make them us when really they’re not true and not who we are, and yet we make ourselves them and as Gyl notes we magnify them further. We do indeed make mountains out of molehills when we do that.

117. Yes, it is quite eye opening to realize that I am with others as I am with myself.

     1. And a great realisation to make Felix – we can’t separate the two.

118. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” so very true. How we are, how we talk, listen, judge and the list could go on with ourselves, really is how we are with others. It has only been since I started to be more loving with myself, more gentle, less judgmental, could I even begin to be that way with others. It is an ongoing unfolding, the deeper I go with me, the more open I am with others.

119. ‘What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am.’ – Beautifully said Gyl, Esoteric Yoga is an amazing modality which invites us to deeply surrender and re-connect to our stillness where there is no room for the negative thoughts.

120. Esoteric Yoga gives you the opportunity to re-connect to, and feel the stillness and joy within your body, and allows you to appreciate the extent to which we take on the emotions of what is happening around us.

121. I simply love the space that participating in an Esoteric Yoga session offers me: the space to stop, re-connect and feel all that is happening in my body at that moment in time, without judgement or self critique; just a gentle observation of every single part of me. This is a time for me to get to know me from a place of honesty and self love, and the willingness to allow my body this time to reveal what is not in harmony and what healing is possible. Like you Gyl I have the deepest appreciation for this divine modality and the wonderful and committed presenters who bring it to us.

122. A very inspiring blog Gyl Rae bringing the absolute gold of an Esoteric Yoga session which simply invites us to re-connect deep within the body – nothing to do, nothing to think about, nothing to become, nothing to figure out and thus magnify emotions and thoughts- only to be in conscious presence with the body and surrender more deeply to the stillness within.
     “As I lay there I thought, “That’s easy, I feel angry this morning”. I had felt this way since I woke up but couldn’t work out why, and looking back, I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out”.

123. “There was no anger, no judgment, no hardness, blame or comparison, just a feeling of absolute deep contentment, joy, connection and space; I could appreciate and feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am.” This too has been my experience of Esoteric Yoga Gyl. No matter what I feel arise in a session, discomfort, pain, emotions I’m able to allow and observe gently and lovingly from a place of expansive stillness, harmony and exquisite beauty I recognise as me.

124. I love the way you share Gyl. This line stood out for me “I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.” I can feel that thinking is my ‘go to’ when I am trying to ‘fix’ something and I can see very clearly this course of action doesn’t actually allow me the space to feel what I need to feel. Consequently the problem I am working on with all my thinking is magnified. Now that I have this awareness I can choose differently.

125. Yes terrianneconnors, ‘once we realise that we are not our emotions’ it empowers us because we know we can choose to come back to ourselves. So for example, with self-doubt, if I don’t believe in it, it vanishes in a puff of smoke and I wonder what I was so concerned about. When I say Yes to me, I say No to the self-doubt and it cannot exist, as it was only there because I let in those thoughts and believed them. I have found Esoteric Yoga a tremendous support to help me reconnect with myself and overcome self-doubt.

126. Yes true esteraltmiks, understanding is very important to have for yourself and others too. I might indeed sometimes react when I feel angry or sad but then understanding that I am not perfect and why I was angry or sad helps to let go of it.

127. “As I worked through the Esoteric Yoga session, allowing myself a deeper connection to my body and self, I let go of all these thoughts that were not me. What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am.” I so love this modality and then we can take the stillness out into the world as we go about our daily activity.

128. Dear Gyl what you share with us in your amazing blog is wonderful. What I found once very revealing was: “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. With this knowing nothing is hidden and it was and is the greatest gift for me to get more and more awareness of myself!

129. Yes I agree Lieke and terriannegconnors this moment is wonderful. For me is understanding also something what makes it easier to choose my loveliness – so I like to put it on top of what you both have already mentioned.

130. When we are in our stillness everything that is being played out in our bodies will be revealed, allowing to connect back to who we truly are, our beautiful tender selves. A great blog Gyl

131. Great blog Gyl, I have recently been examining control and it seems to me it is like pressing the lid down firmly on a pot of boiling water, it requires quite a force and you just end up burning yourself anyway. You describe that so clearly with this sentence: “I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.”
     I love the way you took the lid off completely and looked into the pot (your body) to see and feel what was actually there.

132. It is joyful when you can distance yourself from the emotions and see them for what they are and not let them rule your day or life. Esoteric Yoga provides a beautiful pathway to discover this.

133. Thank you for sharing this for it is great reminder of the responsibility we have in our relationships, especially the one we have with ourselves first that lays the foundation of all others. Awesome.

134. “I had felt this way since I woke up but couldn’t work out why, and looking back, I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.” Oh Gyl, this is such a familiar pattern that I do too… Magnifying thoughts because I am not with my body but am in my head. That’s what I love about Esoteric Yoga is that it offers the opportunity to cut the thoughts that come up and come back to the body. I am finding the more I practise Esoteric Yoga it is becoming easier to cut these thoughts in a much shorter time frame.

     1. I can so relate to this also Donna, magnifying thoughts, trying to figure things out. This happens because I am not with my body and therefore the thoughts can just go for gold. But Esoteric Yoga offers such a great way to come back to the body and feel that connection to within.

135. How wonderful that, through the modality of Esoteric Yoga, we are offered the opportunity to so deeply connect with our bodies and feel the truth of who we are. A grand, grace-full, yet simple stop in our schedule that can reconnect us to the grand, grace-full, loving beings we all equally are.

136. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. This is an unavoidable truth Gyl and is what inspires me to learn how to honour and love myself deeply, so that others can feel this.

137. The words “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” is so very true. I have found that since I have been more loving with myself, my interactions with those around me have also become more loving. Thanks for your blog Gyl

138. “allowing myself a deeper connection to my body and self, I let go of all these thoughts that were not me. What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am. “- How beautiful and freeing to know and feel that we are love, Gyl.
     Anything less than that is what we are not, and once we surrender deep into our essence stillness, joy, harmony and love can be embraced and embodied.
     What a beautiful healing modality esoteric yoga truly is.

139. Your sentence “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” is so true. My understanding of this gets deeper and deeper and the more I’m aware of this, the more I make sure, that I connect to myself first, before I connect with others.

140. What a beautiful account of a melting away in our bodies and minds of that which holds us less than who we truly are. There is a loveliness there within and it can so easily be connected with when we let go of the image of who we are and who we should be.

141. I have just completed an esoteric yoga session online. The theme of the programme was surrender. The more I surrender to myself, the more I’m prepared to leave judgment aside, the more tenderness I give myself the more I am able to suppress judgment of others and interact with tenderness in my dealings with them.

142. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”, this line has really stood out for me reading your blog. It is a great reflection that whatever I am thinking about another person I am also thinking about myself. If I develop a more loving relationship with myself then I will naturally feel this with others.

     1. I have been considering this lately Donna and I can feel the absolute truth of this. We may think we can direct our anger inward without affecting others but it is simply not possible. This approach often leads to explosions of anger for no apparent reason. It can also show in subtle ways like the tone of a message. We cannot hide how we feel and we cannot choose to be angry with ourselves and loving with others. The truth is always felt.

        1. Yes, Donna and Leonne with your comments –this same line stood out for me too – “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”.
           The reflections around us are constantly showing us this and it is great to uncover the unloving thoughts about oneself through this mirror – the truth is always felt when willing to begin being more honest with oneself.

143. Allowing ourselves to feel the deep sadness of a moment, that sadness leaves. It does not get locked in our bodies anymore and we get to feel the pure loveliness of ourselves again.

144. When we allow ourselves to feel, we drop the protection we don. Protection is a form of control, when we feel we have lost control. What do we feel we have lost control over? And why? What does protection give us in return? Esoteric yoga is one of the ways to allow the body to come to a deeper understanding of our feelings.

145. How we are with ourselves, is how we are with everyone else. This is a great reflection. How the world is, is also a direct reflection of how we are and have been with ourselves.

     1. I like to remind myself when I am having judgements or negative thoughts about someone or something, that really these thoughts are about myself first of all. I know that when I am feeling awesome and feeling the loveliness of me I can then easily feel that in others. When I am out, it is much more difficult to connect with the beauty in others. So it really comes back to self responsibility first of all.

        1. This is so true Donna, I know and have felt that exact some thing for myself. That when I am experiencing judgements or putting expectations out onto others, it is a mirror back to me to look at what is going on in me. What is it that I am not wanting to feel or take responsibility for? This can sometimes be an ouch moment……as you say, it does come back to self responsibility.

     2. That is such a moment of revelation. No wonder Gyl felt tears rolling down her cheeks at its recognition.
        You have taken it a further step Adele. So often we complain about this world -its callousness, carelessness, greed…and so on. It is but a great mirror reflecting the way we are with ourselves as a humanity.
        In this revelation you have sowed seeds for true change…not just the empty activism that seeks to repair the outer at the neglect of this deeper and more painful truth.

146. Emotions are not us but they are what we have allowed to enter and run us. Where and why do we have an opening for this to happen? Great to have the reminder and opportunity to do this through your blog Gyl.

147. “The anger had been something that was not part of me, something I thought I felt, from my head, but in truth when I allowed myself the time and the space to stop and truly connect to my body, I could actually feel how lovely I was.” – I love that we only need to connect back to our body to expose the falseness of the mind feeding us emotions.

148. So unifying to feel that beneath all that we may layer ourselves with, in truth we are all the same in our essence, we are love.

149. – “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. This is such a powerful statement and so true. I have been appreciating this more and more over the last years and seen how my relationships with others do certainly reflect the changes I have made in honour of myself – qualities of openness, allowing, appreciating and acceptance to name but a few.

     1. Yes it is a great one to think about isn’t it. And it takes a bit of courage and honesty to be able think about it and see it to be true.

150. Thank you Gyl…It is amazing how the mind can fool us into thinking we are a certain emotion as in your example of thinking you were angry, when in truth if we stop and spend a few moments re-connecting to our body we can feel the quality that is truly us, we realise we are not our thoughts. I have also experienced the loveliness and the expansiveness of me in the Esoteric Yoga Sessions.

     1. It is amazing. It begs a few questions worth pondering too, like how is it possible that our mind and bodies are sensing different experiences at the same time? Where are these emotional thoughts coming from if not from the body? Are our minds and bodies separate entities impulsed by different stimuli, do they have their on agendas? Questions aside there is one thing for sure and that is it feels amazing to align my body and mind in the same place at the same time and that Esoteric Yoga is a powerful means of supporting this.

151. “As I worked through the Esoteric Yoga session, allowing myself a deeper connection to my body and self, I let go of all these thoughts that were not me. What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am.” This is so beautiful Gyl. I love my esoteric yoga sessions as I always end them feeling more connected, still and with myself than when I began.

152. “What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am”. Gyl, this has also been my experience with Esoteric Yoga sessions. No matter how one is when they start the session, the invitation to go deeper as the session progresses, cannot be ignored and if accepted, stillness and joy inevitably follow.

     1. Yes Anne I agree, it is like when you feel how held you are in a space to just be, constantly reminded to stop the judgement, and just be, it is almost like you get moments to break through the thought patterns of ‘i’m not good enough’, ‘i’m angry’, i’m this and i’m that, and in actual fact you can go beneath this outer layer and feel who you truly are inside. In my experience, this then supports you in the days thereafter, with a greater knowing of who you are and in your body – it is very powerful – and I am only in week 2 of my program! Yay!

153. Yes Gyl this really resonated with me too – when you said “I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.” I can this naval gazing…I can try so hard to work things out that I feel I could be forever broken. That is why connecting to the body on such a simple but deep way is so important. Many thanks

154. I really get what you mean about “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” – its so easy to be self-critical and judgemental, saying things to yourself you would never dream of loading onto another, but that is actually the quality others receive, and only serves to keep ourselves in the spin of it. So I am learning what it is to not be in judgement, but to allow space and understanding, to observe and let go of things that are not true – and from this I can learn to hold others in that same understanding, allowing them the space to freely make their own choices.

155. You expose something very important Gyl and that is that when we try to figure out why we are feeling something we usually magnify the emotion we are in. I have found I can get into a spin trying to ‘fix’ or get out of a certain feeling that is uncomfortable where as the way get to the root is to actually accept what is there to be felt and deeply connect to our body. Then whatever is there shows up effortlessly to be dealt with.

156. Those moments that provide a space for us to deepen our understanding about our life are so precious. I have been finding that the greatest and the deepest insights are gained when I feel and understand something with my body – with my whole being, rather than relying on my head. And Esoteric Yoga is so great as a way of building this connection and awareness of our body.

157. Hey Gyl, it is such a blessing when we finally start to feel the truth and not only know it in our heads.

158. I too have noticed that in endeavouring to figure out why I’m frustrated or feeling a certain way – that it magnifies the state. More recently entering my rhythm again or taking myself for a walk is far more connecting and in turn, revealing.

159. I love the fact that my thoughts can be changed by the way I move, how great is that. Just recently I had disturbing nagging thoughts when I got up in the morning and I started to very gently stretch out the stiffness in my body and my thoughts started to change. The feeling that my thoughts were controlling me went and I could feel that I was coming back to me, instead of running with the thoughts for the rest of the day.

160. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”, this is for me a very powerful truth. I used to be extremely committed to my word. If I made a verbal commitment to meet someone or do something, I was duty and honour bound to see it to its conclusion. Keeping my word was paramount for me, I identified with being a trustworthy person while at the same time lacking any self esteem. I was deeply hurt and confirmed in my worthlessness when others did not respect their commitment. I have learnt to let go (but still in progress) of this need to be right, to be perfect. Life is full of unexpected events that prevent someone from fulfilling plans. I do not beat myself up now if for some good reason I cannot deliver on “my word” and the resentment I used to feel towards others as greatly diminished. So yes Gyl, the way I am with myself is how I am with everyone else.

161. There is real beauty in allowing ourselves to feel how we truly are, and to allow our fragilities and hurts to come up without judgement. What I could feel in your writing Gyl was how supportive the esoteric yoga was in allowing you to feel the true you underneath, as this has been my experience too. It is so clear that the way we think and treat ourselves not only magnify’s in our bodies but goes out to effect and impact upon everyone else and by choosing to be more gentle and loving with ourselves we open the door to being more open, gentle and loving with all others.

162. I have learnt when there is judgement and criticism there is no room for healing and I am the person that I judge the most harshly and criticise. Breaking the pattern feels like tough work sometimes.

163. Wow, what a beautiful, honest and inspiring blog Gyl. So “lovely, sweet, tender and pure”. I love it.

164. I find it truly wonderful when we can allow ourselves to let go, be, and discover the ugliness and the beauty all in the same moment.

     1. It really is life changing Gyl and Lisa to be able to feel and nominate the ugliness or what is not the truth of us – the sadness, anger or frustration etc, as soon as we do this it doesn’t have the same hold. This ability to observe and not absorb somebody else’s emotions is something I am working on, knowing that they are not me. I loved your words Gyl, “lovely, sweet, tender and pure” – our true nature.

     2. I love these moments Lisa that you’ve shared in your comment. I have experienced this many time when I was attending the Esoteric Sacred Healing courses and at the 2015 Lennox Heads Retreat. It was such a powerful healing process, leaving me feeling lightness, clarity, love, joy, truth and stillness all at the same time and learning to bring all of that to my everyday life is absolutely awesome.

165. It is extraordinary when we settle ourselves, stop the incessant doing and connect to our bodies, what we find to really be there.
     Our minds and thoughts can create a whole story and even physical ailments, which are simply not true, thank you, so much Gyl for bringing us your deep insights.

166. Wow. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. That’s certainly something to contend with and ponder deeply on, Gyl. The quote should be placed over the front door so I see it every time I go out into the world! Thank you for the thought-provoker.

     1. There is a little saying I have heard – ‘The way you do anything is the way you do everything’. There is much truth in this!

167. Esoteric Yoga, has for me, been a life changing modality that I value and appreciate every time I lay down to start a session. I welcome the opportunity to re-connect with my whole being – my body, my feelings, my aches and pains and my emotions! And, how lovely I feel when I can take away all the mental reasons/excuses that had previously stopped me from going into a deep and nurturing stillness. Like you Gyl, once I knew I was being held in absolute love and was being truly supported to honour and feel what was true and right for me I was able to commit deeply to every Esoteric Yoga session with much appreciation for the stillness it brings to me and my body.

168. I can feel your deep level of acceptance Gyl, without judgement and self critique we can truly observe our choices and move on with greater responsibility for the all.

169. Esoteric Yoga sure does give us an opportunity to stop and feel exactly what is there. And it is true that if we look just underneath what is governing us at any given time we may find something completely different.

     1. Spot on Rebecca. Esoteric Yoga gives us an opportunity to stop and connect deeply to our inner-most and every time we do this it is an opportunity for something new to present itself. It is as though we are peeling the layers from an onion and once one layer has come off, the next layer is revealed for us to see!

170. Even reading this blog back to myself it made me smile and my body melt. As I realise I have been being hard on myself, but there is nothing there to give myself a hard time about, all I can feel now is love.

     1. This is a absolute gem Gyl. Having the realization of hard or harsh and when checking in with what’s up, finding nothing is up! This has been an amazing moment of revelation for me. I’ve caught myself out for making stuff up out of nothing. My understanding has been, it’s come because I feel great and I’m still becoming accustomed to owning that lovely feeling within me. The other way is just a habit that doesn’t serve.

171. “There came an amazing moment (actually there were lots, but this one still stands out) when it was presented to us that, “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. This is so lovely, and I love the playfulness of it as well as the poignancy of being aware that of a moment of deep learning being available. This is a gem to share, how we are with ourselves does indeed reflect how we are with others. As my relationship with myself has changed I can feel this also with everyone I meet.

172. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. I love re-reading your article Gyl and being reminded of this. If I’m honest, the self judgement still creeps into my day more often that I would like which is in turn presenting a harshness to others that I know isn’t me.

173. This is really lovely to read Gyl. It is a constant re-learning to simply be tender and accepting of ourselves. I hear it over and over but I am choosing to live this more and it allows me to lovingly accept others. When I can appreciate my beauty, I can appreciate this in others.

     1. Hi annietran36, acceptance is the key. I realise how hard and tough I can be on myself and others. But when I allow myself to accept there is nothing wrong with me, and that I am amazing, lovely and sweet, this just disappears. This is also the same, in that when I accept how lovely I am, without a thought or trying I accept how lovely other people are too, I feel all their amazing qualities, and love and appreciate them for who they are, and what they bring to the world. I am no longer caught in the false mind trap of being hard and judgmental.

     2. Annie, I too have heard this many times before but am only now really starting to appreciate the quality I do the little things in my life make a huge difference to my feeling how precious and delicate I am, exquisitely so at times.

174. I like your description of how you were with yourself through your Esoteric Yoga session, that you came back to the stillness and tenderness that is who you really are and realised that the thoughts are not you and this shows why it is so important to come back to the body, to go deeper and feel from there.

     1. I agree Deborah, I have just has this experience again tonight when reading this blog.

175. A beautiful bog Gyl and a great reminder that how I am with myself is how I am with everyone else.

     1. Thank you Nick.

176. It is so beautiful to reconnect to that stillness of who I am, the more that I make time and space during my day to do that the easier it is for me to handle the challanges and tensions presented during the day, it is a gentle reminder of who I truly am.

177. Gyl, Esoteric Yoga has been so supportive for to feel me and feel how the other things that come in head to interfere and put thoughts are just that and if I don’t give it anything than a passing thought, then they will not become mountain of an issue. I loved how you shared if you’re hard on yourself, you are also on others.. I can so relate to that in my life and once we become aware, we can then choose to either live in the same old pattern/momentum or let go of the old and live in a more supportive loving way for us and in affect others.
     Your blog really reminded me of one Esoteric Yoga session, I got to feel how my issues and my hurts are not me. Yes, I did know this but one day I could clearly feel the depth of the yummy connection I had in me and if I lived that all the time, then there would no real issues. Yes, there would situations where things may need to be discussed/nominated but no they don’t need to become a big deal unless I make them.

     1. It is so true pinkylight, when I am with me, there are no issues.

     2. I also love what you share about creating issues ” they don’t need to become a big deal unless I make them.” That made me smile as I have been catching out that old pattern in in myself over the past few months. Something would happen no big deal, and I could feel I was about to make it into some sort of drama or issue, I would clock this ( well most of these) straight away, stop and ask myself am I creating a drama, my body responded with a very loud yes, so I simply said ‘ cool I am not doing this anymore ‘ and let it go. Amazing to now have this awareness – this is with absolute thanks to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine presentations, other wise I’d still be on that roller coaster – and I hate roller coasters.

        1. I could have had many oscars for creating issues…story of my life. It just feels great like you share gylrae that the moment something happens and our mind wants to go into a story or create an issue, to stop that flow of thoughts and to realize: this is soooo not me. Connect with my body and just move on, into the next moment.

178. How beautiful Gyl, I loved reading the steps of transformation taken . . . from feeling anger to the realisation of your gorgeous self, and how, in connection to that, every issue simply melts away.

179. Reading this makes me feel the exposure of “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. I can feel how much judgement I’ve had for myself and how this plays out with how much judgement I’ve done to others too. I know that’s not me, it’s a great bottom line from Kate, we are and always will be Love.

180. This is so great Gyl that you stayed with your connection to your body so that you could clearly see how the anger was not you and what is you is a loveliness that is always there. What I really appreciate is your honesty of how, when you are hard on yourself and judge and criticise yourself – you are doing that to others. That is such an ouch – but great to feel – I can see how I’m doing that to others too – and how that is so not me – or you or any of us – bottom line is we are, and always will be love.

     1. Dear Kate I love this ” we are, and always will be love” a very powerful and truth full statement. And yes honesty has a huge part to play in this. The more honest I am with myself, people and life, the more real things are and I am able to let go of and heal things that are not me. I may not always get it right, but that’s cool, everything is a learning. But I know for sure being honest feels way much better than not saying anything or pretending that everything is okay.

181. Such a great point when you said “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. When I was at home and remembered I had to go to work at a hospital tomorrow, I started to feel like I was becoming serious to prepare myself for how I would be in the hospital, it was horrible! I thought, ‘is this really how I’ve been living when I go to work?’ what about the joy that I know and live with, why aren’t I living that and carrying that with me into work and wherever I go, why not take it to work?

182. A great demonstration of what can come up when we connect and drop into our stillness. Realising that you are not your anger feels like quite an amazing insight, followed by a deeper understanding of the fact that nothing happens in isolation – we treat ourselves as we treat others.

183. For someone like me who has been locked in their mind for many years, Esoteric Yoga is something that has taken me time to appreciate. But now that I have opened up to how powerful it is and made it a part of my life, I can feel what a fundamental practise it is in allowing me to connect deeply to my body and let go of everything that is not me.

     1. janetwilliams06 I love this line, it deeply resonates in my body “and let go of everything that is not me.”

184. I enjoyed re-reading your sweet blog Gyl. What stood out today was:
     “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. At this moment tears rolled down my face as I realised I was being hard on myself and that the judgment, critique and hardness I often hold myself in, is how I am with everyone else.
     This is a huge real-eyes-ation, and one I imagine has transformed your life.

185. What you have shared Gyl is the true beauty of Esoteric Yoga in that it allows us to reconnect to and feel the beautiful tenderness, grace and stillness in our body and hence feel the truth of who we really are.

186. Gyl when rereading this blog for a second time I can really appreciate how beautiful this realisation is and also the depth of knowing that esoteric yoga brings when we choose to connect to our bodies.

187. I can really feel the truth of what you write re how I treat myself is how I treat others. It’s something I’ve tried to pretend isn’t true as I have known how abusive I’ve been towards myself.

     But feeling the truth of what you’ve written is amazing because I can really give myself permission to honour myself and not be dissuaded by any thoughts of being selfish. I do know the difference between self interest and self love.

     1. Agree Karin, becoming aware of the difference between self-interest and self-love can be life changing. I too was brought up to believe that being self-loving was selfish yet if we do not love ourselves, how can we love others? Thanks to meeting Serge Benhayon, I now allow self-love and self-nurturing into my life and my love for others has expanded immensely.

        1. Great point to highlight Karin and Anne, and as you say Anne, can be life changing.

        2. Yes this is a great point to highlight, knowing and living the difference between self love and self interest. As the first serves to serve all, and the second serves no one as ultimately it turns in on itself.

188. Thank you Gyl for reminding me that when I ‘feel anger’ that some how I get lost and very identified with the anger and think its a big part of me or its who I am – an angry person. The truth is its an emotion that attaches to us until we let go and return to our essence of who we truly are – love.

     1. I like what you are saying Andrew, emotions are just in the mind, all we have to do is connect to our body, our essence, love and the emotion is no longer there.

189. It is great to practice Esoteric Yoga and find myself naturally wanting to go deeper, letting go of layers of thoughts and emotional outplays in my body and finding that wonderful stillness within. Before I was introduced to Esoteric Yoga I was caught in Yoga as trying to do the postures and create a state of mind and of body. There was no space to just be. It was totally life changing to understand what Yoga is truly about and how natural it is to connect to a deeper sense of who I am.

     1. I can really relate to this Simon in regards to how life changing it is to allow ourselves to just be. No need to perform or accomplish anything just connect to a beautifully natural stillness that lives within and how this can be brought to all aspects of our lives beyond the yoga mat.

190. We can’t switch from being hard on ourselves to kind to everyone else. It’s such a great lesson and so beautiful to let all that go and embrace our true nature of love. Thank you Gyl.

191. Hi Gyl, on re-reading this blog I was really feeling how I too can magnify thoughts by trying to figure out why and really going into dissecting them. For most of my life I have used getting caught up in my thoughts as a way to stop me from feeling. This is such a distraction and keeps me away from simply accepting what is there to be felt. It also keeps me away from feeling the stillness that forever lives underneath all that busy mental energy. Stillness is such a powerful quality to be connected to ~ it allows us to feel we are complete, not needing anything from the outer. There is a steadiness and self assuredness that is a very supportive to making true choices about what supports our body. Living from this space allows us to feel who we truly are. It feels like there are many systems in life geared towards mental activity and stimulation so we separate from and are kept from who we truly are and live in this constant momentum that keeps us from knowing our inner stillness and the truth of life. Reading Serge Benhayon’s books based on The Ageless Wisdom has supported me so much in understanding what the truth of life is and how to re-connect to my inner stillness.

     1. This is spot on Bianca, I too have used, and still do use thoughts as a way of taking me away from any kind of stillness, So I don’t have to feel what is going on, yes I can indulge on thinking about any emotions that are coming up such as anger but through complicating it with thoughts I don’t take responsibility for whatever is there to be felt, and hence stay in the same place I am rather than moving forward

192. Having denied being angry for years, and now discovering how it has been an underlying hidden energy all my life since suppressing it consciously in my 20’s, yoga sessions and all that I feel in my body during them, show me where it has been hiding — in my body. By connecting to the stillness and gentleness inside me, and knowing that is my true essence, the anger is allowed to be present without being engaged with, or even felt, for the body is doing the work of clearing it, as I accept what is there, stay present, and breathe then wait. When I stand up I can feel how my whole body feels different, and so do I.

     1. Wow Joan that’s incredible.. It’s fascinating how for over 30/40 years you were able to bury the feelings of anger, and that only once you have begun bringing more stillness into your life, you were able to feel it. Your choice to bury it no longer, and deal with the underlying issue, is I’m sure you appreciate every day.

     2. Hi joanchristinecalder, it was great to read your words ” denied being angry for years”, as I too have not liked to feel anger. But it only buries it deeper, to rear its ugly head later down the line, and more often than not feels much more unpleasant then. What I am learning, and have learnt, is to say okay this anger is not me. There is something I am sad about and because I don’t want to, or won’t allow myself to feel it, I harden myself and in comes the anger. Whereas as soon as I acknowledge this, nominate the sadness and don’t indulge in it, saying ‘okay cool I’m sad / angry … but that’s okay to be aware of, as now there is all the more room for love’. I let go of whatever was bothering me, and it doesn’t occupy my body or the space I am in.

        1. It is so life changing to understand this and practice it. How different the world would be if every person was able to recognise their emotions in this way and choose not to let them run. To choose stillness and gentleness is a totally different way of being that enables anything else to be totally exposed.

     3. Joan, I agree that it is so important to allow the space for your body to expose what has and can be deeply hidden for a long time. Frustration was something I could easily access in my life, but I was always so reserved, I didn’t even allow myself to get angry, feeling a pride in that at times. But actually it was still there, until I was able to bring some stillness to myself and allow it to come up and out, it feels much better in my body as a result of that.

193. Gyl, to hear another human being claim the truth of who they are with the words, ‘I could appreciate and feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am’ is like connecting with a light that inspires me and others to connect with theirs. I lit up when I read those words Gyl, only because I know them to be true for me too. Keep expressing with that clarity and purity and I will too! Let’s light up the world by expressing the truth of who we are. We WILL change the world by doing so.

     1. Thank you bernadetteglass, I still smile when I read these words, and that light, because they are me. Especially the word sweet, as until recently this is something I tried to deny, which is crazy. And yes we are all these, equally so.

194. I have found the esoteric yoga sessions so exposing, I always used to fall asleep in them because I was so used to being on the go, and not being still and being in my body. Now, the sessions help me to connect much more deeply than anything else to feel what I’m feeling. And, more often than not, I am feeling yummy and didn’t realise it, because of an emotion I was holding onto, just as you describe Gyl.

     1. Well said, Gill, my relationship with Esoteric Yoga has also changed a lot over the past few years. In the past, I really did not want to truly stop and listen to what my body had to say, so likewise fell asleep every time. Now, I value what a golden opportunity it is each time, to connect and learn, and be shown where I still hold tension in my body, and also how lovely I feel when it all drops away.

        1. Yes janetwilliams06. My relationship with esoteric yoga has also continued to deepen as I allow myself to feel more and surrender more.

195. Brilliant observation Gyl and so helpful to me at this time. That when we feel an emotion or a reaction in our bodies, yes it is great to be aware of them, but it also seems very important to understand that this emotion or issue or hurt or reaction is not who we are. I love your suggestion that the way to perhaps really understand this is to connect to that inner essence that is always there, and then it becomes simple to see a mood or an emotion as just a behaviour.

     1. Absolutely andrewmooney26, I whole heartedly agree. Emotions, issues or hurts are not who we are, this is such a joy to read and write as I feel the truth of it in my body. The more I step back and observe these patterns and behaviours,the quicker I am able to let them go. This is with thanks to modalities such as Esoteric Yoga, and also the amazing presentations of Universal medicine and Serge Benhayon. In truth without these I would still very likely be absolutely lost and absorbed in drama and emotions. It has been a huge, very much loved and joyful wake up call, to come back to me.

        1. Gorgeous.

     2. Absolutely andrewmooney26!

196. Gyl, I can so relate to this, ‘The anger had been something that was not part of me, something I thought I felt, from my head, but in truth when I allowed myself the time and the space to stop and truly connect to my body, I could actually feel how lovely I was.’ Yesterday in the morning a friend asked how I was, I felt tired so this is what I replied, she asked me again in the afternoon and I went into my auto response for the day which yesterday was ‘tired’, but actually after I said this I realised that I was just using this response without actually checking what my body felt like at that moment and actually I felt great, I felt inspired and I could feel how much potential I had. This would have been a much more true response, so it made me realise that rather than give an automatic response, that it is really about feeling into the body, how I am and that it is OK to take a moment to do this.

197. At my first esoteric yoga session I heard the words “no need to perform” and I knew that I had been performing all my life to be recognised, loved. This amazing modality of esoteric yoga allows us the opportunity to feel the truth in our body and the choice to change the way we have been living based on that truth.

     1. Irene this is such a joy to read ” there is no need to perform”. This should be shared with the whole world, as how many of us grow up being told to perform, perform, perform. From when we are still in nappies all the way up through school, exams, university, work, relationships, family and the roles we take on.

198. Thank you Gyl, how awesome is it to expose this judgement character for what it is. I have used this judgement character as a form of protection to keep people out, because I am judgeing myself – because many times in many ways we are judged and not held and seen for who we are. What is so grand, is that there is Serge Benhayen and universal medicine and esoteric yoga that see us and hold us for who we are and not what we do.
     Reading your gorgeous blog is so inspiring and confirming of the preciousness we all come from, and the joyfull beautiful tender way we can be with ourselves and each other.

     1. I agree Amber, it is amazing to be met and held by Serge Benhayon, his family, and now many others, for who we are and not what we do. It is so freeing, even writing these words I can feel my body let go of protection. Imagine a world where we all meet every single person in this way, allowing each other to just be. The world would, and will be, a very different place.

        1. This world gylrae you speak of is one that we all very much deserve and one that we all will enjoy immensely.

        2. I agree aminatumi – We will all en-joy this world immensely.

199. Awesome Gyl. I too, love Esoteric Yoga and the way it helps us become aware of what is not us as we reconnect to the truth of our bodies. I love the awareness you got when you could feel how the hardness and critique you held for yourself you also held others in. My upper arms and shoulders relaxed, releasing the tension I have been holding from my day when I read this, reminding me also of this truth and allowing myself to be kinder and more tender with me and therefore others. Thank you.

     1. Absolutely Gretel. Through this simple modality we get to feel the tension and also are able to let go of it in such a short space of time. This just shows how powerful being in connection to ourself and our body is.

200. I remember my first yoga session four or five years ago when I felt very uncomfortable laying still on the table. Over the years, it helped me to reconnect deeply with my body and it is an ongoing program.

     1. Exactly, alexandremed, it is only until we truly still the body through a modality such as Esoteric Yoga, that we realise how much tension we hold in our bodies. I know that when I cannot lay still and my body is resisting stillness I have been caught up in the momentum of the day. It a great marker for me to stop and bring myself back to stillness, which feels beautiful.

     2. I am with you on this Alexandre Med, and this ongoing program I am finding profound.

     3. My first yoga session was similar alexandremed I was a little concerned and how I would be still for so long and found that I could easily distract myself with an itchy nose, a buzzing fly and a very busy head, or just falling asleep. Over the years it has developed to a beautiful deeply supportive way to reconnect and explore the depth of that connection with myself.

     4. It’s great to be reminded of and appreciate how far I have come since my first Esoteric Yoga Session.

201. I also find it so interesting when I can observe an emotion like anger, and try and work it out in my head, where’s it coming from. I can now see, as you say, how this pattern magnifies these thoughts by trying to figure it out, instead of just dropping it because that emotion is not me.

     1. Exactly gillrandall, I love the simplicity and truth of this line “that emotion is not me.”

        1. Any emotion is not us.
           We are simple, loving and joyful and anything else is just not it.

     2. Yes Gill we are much more than the vagary of emotions. I go into my head and try to explicate to myself why I’m suddenly annoyed, angry, sad … I go on analysing the emotion, reliving it when all that is needed is to to just drop it and move on.

     3. This comment highlights that we go round and round in circles with thoughts, without truly going anywhere.
        How about with feeling? When we feel, we can go deeper always. When we ask why, understanding also deepens.

202. I love the esoteric yoga to feel my body and the connection that I have with it.

203. Gyl, it is most extraordinary that we can continue to compare with one another when we are not even in the same room, city or country and/or cannot be seen but I can recall a very similar dialogue that I have had with myself whilst doing Esoteric yoga where I have done exactly that.

204. ‘As I lay there I thought, “That’s easy, I feel angry this morning”. I had felt this way since I woke up but couldn’t work out why, and looking back, I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.’ Gyl, reading this paragraph it has just dawned on me how often I do exactly that, magnify my negative thoughts by dwelling on them rather than letting them go and connecting to who I really am.

205. There is great power in the choice of the thoughts we choose to feel. More and more I understand that what I feel is what I have chosen to let myself feel, and I therefore have a choice as to whether I become emotional and unsteady or whether I choose thoughts that allow me to have a balanced rhythm and a joyful energy to my day. There seems great power in that ability we all have to govern the way our lives go and that understanding that we are accountable for all we are makes our lives all the richer.

206. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” This question is one I shall bring into my daily regime. I sat with this for quite a while and realise when I’m self loving and gentle with myself I have no expectation/s of those around me. When life gets hectic or the pressure is turned up I expect so much more from those in my immediate company as I do of myself. So thank you Gyl your shared experience has really got me feeling more deeply.

207. Gyl, it’s so great how you allowed yourself to recognise so early on in your session how the anger was something that was not part of you. I have also gone into comparison sometimes too, and even despite knowing what a downhill slide that is.
     ‘How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else’ is a huge lesson for me, thank you.

208. Esoteric Yoga has been a wonderful tool for me to feel for myself, and therefore know, that I do not need to be motionless to be in stillness – I become still within, even when I am in activity on the outside, and connect to myself – and that the quality in which I do anything has a direct and profound impact on my body. This has been a profound lesson.

209. Thank you Gyl, it is amazing how when we truly connect to ourselves it allows us to truly feel what is there. Esoteric yoga is so powerful in supporting this and I find that when I commit to this it ripples out to the rest of my life.

210. Reading “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” felt so much more meaningful to me today, especially with my relationship with Esoteric Yoga which is all about connection with the body. To be honest, in the past Esoteric Yoga usually felt very uncomfortable and I tended to avoid sessions. However, it was a very different experience for me during a recent retreat I attended at Lennox Head, NSW Australia. We did Esoteric Yoga and it was joyful for me to be aware that I didn’t once feel like running away and I felt a confirmation that I am embracing being in my body more and more. It also meant that I was much more at ease with people too.
     I would like to add and thank Marcia Owen to the list of inspirational teachers of this modality.

211. It’s amazing, even reading back a blog you have written you learn so much. Today I am aware that I still slip back into a pattern of “trying to figure things out in my head ” or replaying it over and over again – this is so exhausting and draining, takes away conscious presence and most of all the fact, that even though my body is physically very tired, and I had a blip yesterday and felt off, I still actually feel and am tender, lovely and joyful. And you know what, the blip is not really that big a deal, really a tiny grain of sand on top of a mountain of love, and just a very simple choice to trust myself.

     1. As you say Gyl, having a ‘blip’ is no big deal, it’s how we are with ourselves after the blip and how we bring ourselves back that matters. It’s the berating ourselves or going over and over what happened in our heads, or talking about it that takes us further away from our true essence.

     2. Yes absolutely Gyl – trying to figure out and solve things in our heads is very exhausting… And for me tends not to get me very far!

        1. I agree Susie, I don’t get very far either, in truth I’m still in the same place or even literaly more bogged and drained down by the thoughts in my head. Sometimes after stepping back, I realise what a waste of space and energy that it has been. I have this amazing day yet I have spent most of it in my head thinking about something that in the grand plan of things really is a tiny minuscule and really not a big deal – if anything at all. So, why do this, when it takes so much joy away from being our self, the day, feeling how awesome we are and really how amazing and simple life truly is …. maybe there in lies is the answer?

212. I love what you are sharing here Gyl, as it shows how all the emotions we carry are actually not something that is truly part of ourselves but just something we hold onto and let ourselves be dictated by, while underneath we are always able to re-connect to the loveliness that is there awaiting us.

213. I can really feel the line, ‘What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am.’ How beautiful to feel this – a real testimony to letting go of all that we may think we are (good and bad) for finding who we truly are beneath. We don’t just stop there but keep on growing in our amazingness.

     Time for me to stop stopping with what I already know of myself but connect more deeply with myself and discover more of who I truly am and who we all are!

214. Your experience has been very confirming to read this morning Gyl. I woke up feeling how much I can put energy into solutions or fixing, my relationships with others, particularly family… but as I laid there, like you with Esoteric Yoga, I felt I can only hold others with preciousness if I first hold myself in the same way. This is huge, because it stops all the ‘working out’ and going into my head to find the next angle to change something. Thanks for the inspiring sharing of how quickly your emotions simply slipped away when you connected with your body.

215. This is a beautiful reflection of how you met and honoured your body. Discarding anything that wasn’t true, wasn’t you. Love it.

216. It’s great how you describe letting go of the anger and very simple reconnecting to yourself bringing you that gorgeous stillness. It’s there all the time for us, but we need to let go of those emotions that surround us first.

217. How inspiring! I had thought of the possibility of joining an Esoteric Yoga class online, but as yet have not taken this opportunity… this blog has further inspired me to give this beautiful modality a go! Thank you Gyl!

218. Gyl what stands out like a sore thumb is how much we allow ourselves to be caught up in problems, in anger or frustration, when the truth is, underneath all the thoughts that are not really us we are naturally loving and harmonious. As I sit with what you have shared it takes away the pressure to “get” somewhere, and instead puts the focus on the way we live so those thoughts don’t come in, and if they do, through feeling and connecting with the body they will drop away. No complex working things out – simply feeling who we are.

     1. I loved reading this comment yesterday David, whilst I had stopped on a long drive home. The word frustration stood out for me, and in that moment it highlighted the frustration I could feel, albeit a small bit, within myself, but I had not realised this. It also made me smile and laugh to read ” takes away the pressure to “get” somewhere,” as I could feel this is how I was driving home. I had a long distance to cover and had gone into the motion of getting there, instead of enjoying the drive and being totally present with myself. It was amazing to feel, as when I got home I could feel what really exhausted me and had changed my body was not the distance traveled (yes this was naturally tiring for my body), but it was actually the constant debating and chatter in my head.

        1. You have described it so well gyrlrae. This is exactly how I often get exhausted in my day, nothing strenuous or earth shattering, just a slow ongoing poisoning of my body with the drive ‘to get somewhere’ and the resulting depletion of energy. This way of being is endemic in society, no wonder we are all so very exhausted and in need of sugar and energy drinks. Esoteric Yoga, in supporting us to deepen our awareness and understanding, is a blessing.

     2. Well said David. And that is the essence of Esoteric Yoga – that we don’t need to get anywhere, we are already naturally loving and harmonious. We just have to let everything else drop away.

219. Thank you Gyl. ‘“how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” – that was a big wake up call for me too. Understanding that we are constantly communicating with everyone around us all the time, whether through words or not, really stresses how important our energetic responsibility is to others, as well as to ourselves.

     1. Yes this really is very exposing. If I ever find myself speaking or acting in a way towards someone that is less than loving I stop and ask myself how have I been with myself recently. More often than not I have not been loving with myself.

220. Esoteric Yoga for me has been a wonderful way to re-connect with my inner stillness – it also exposes just how often I check out with my thoughts – it is a beautiful modality. Letting go of emotions has enabled me to live more healthily and less stressed.

     1. I agree Carmel, although being present with myself has become more and more, I am still amazed at times how I can go way off and get distracted by the most ridiculous thoughts, which when I stop, they don’t even feel like mine. I say okay ” where are these thoughts coming from ” or even, why I am going into drive? Something must be up as I know this doesn’t feel like my natural, joyful and cheeky self.

221. I love this blog, Gyl. This is probably the third read and this time I felt the simplicity of your words, the truth of them and how easy it is to return to ourselves.

     1. Thank you janneprice.

222. ‘I let go of all these thoughts that were not me’ – a quick adaptation: ‘I commit to letting go of all the thoughts that are not me’, and my foundation is set for the day – thank you, Gyl.

     1. Exactly Matilda, every choice is a commitment to be with ourselves, why (even though I still wander off at times) would we want to be anywhere else?

223. I am digging the realisation that stuff like anger or anything else for that matter, like anxiety, frustration etc is not part of us but rather something that has entered and which can be sorted by a bit of the old Esoteric yoga.

224. A very beautiful article.

225. Hi Gyl, what you share is so important, to let go of the thoughts that are stopping us from being our true selves. Esoteric Yoga always brings me to a deeper connection with myself and the stillness felt is beautiful. Thank you for the reminder.

226. I love re-reading this Gyl as I felt pieces this morning I may have skipped over last time.
     Your experience of self-judgement in a room only filled by you really exposes just how influenced the mind is. For me, old patterns and beliefs that have held me back really come to the surface when I am closer to a point of reconnection. A great key is offered here Gyl to be with our body in this time and only observe the mental activity rather than believing it again. Thank you for sharing this.

227. ‘When I allowed myself the time and the space to stop and truly connect to my body, I could actually feel how lovely I was.’ It’s funny how we think we have issues and end up with emotions that drain us, but when we feel ourselves deeply, our essence feels joyful.

228. Beautiful reminder of the joy in connecting with our bodies. I particularly appreciate the comment about seeing that the anger was not part of you Gyl. How very true.

229. Esoteric Yoga has enabled me to feel my body like nothing else. To really connect and hold myself in stillness was not something I could even dream about a few years ago. It really is an amazing way to be with us and allow ourselves to just be.

     1. Those moments of reflection back to how I used to live, awaken so much appreciation – thank you, Raegan.

230. Hello Gyl, How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else, I love this line.
     Thank you for sharing.

231. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”.
     Wow- what a gem Gyl- I shall ponder on the ingrained behaviours that I have taken on that are clearly not me, when I deeply connect to the inner stillness and beauty of who I am.

232. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”.
     Thankyou Gyl this comment stood out to me as I still sometimes hold my self in hardness and judgement and feel myself being the same way with others. Since reading you blog I have had a greater awareness of how I am holding myself.

233. Thank you Gyl. I loved reading you blog. So honest and tender. Reconnecting to our tenderness and stillness dissolves every holding in our bodies, and allows us to let ourselves in, truly and beautifully and, as a result, let others in.

     1. The word dissolves in itself, invites so much letting go – thank you GD.

234. That’s really beautiful Gyl. Thank you!
     Once I started paying attention to how my mind spent its day and was shocked by how much frustration, anger , hurt and resentment it carried on with towards myself and others, it really woke me up as to how much I can truly change the quality I can live in. That I have the power – and the responsibility to change it. Thanks for sharing this – and thank God for Esoteric Yoga!

     1. Here here simplesimon888.. I can certainly relate to this wayward mental activity as a daily internal battle and am now choosing to change and take responsibility for why it is this way in the first place! I no longer choose to hide in this false and restricting activity.
        Thank you God for Universal Medicine 🙂

235. Thank you Gyl for your sharing and I could feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure you are.

236. It is incredible to recognise what comes up in the esoteric yoga and how it comes as a complete surprise to us sometimes. And how you describe how you can feel the anger that is not you, simultaneously with the loveliness that is you, is something I hadn’t considered before. Great to connect to what is you, and hold onto that. The best line of this blog for me is “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”.

237. That’s what I would name true yoga: “What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am. There was no anger, no judgment, no hardness, blame or comparison, just a feeling of absolute deep contentment, joy, connection and space; I could appreciate and feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am.”

238. Sounds like an amazing session Gyl and it really reminded me of what a gift esoteric yoga is and to never take for granted how powerful a tool it is for checking in and returning to stillness.

239. The sweetness that radiates through your blog is delicious and a natural flavour that comes with the love and preciousness you hold yourself with.

     1. Thank you Alex Braun

240. Our hurts, our emotions, our beliefs and our thoughts are not our true essence. If we really get this, we realise that other people’s hurts, emotions, beliefs and thoughts are not their true essence either. So much unnecessary fighting and disharmony would be eradicated by just realising and remembering this fact.

     1. So true Golnaz Shariatzadeh, and all the more room for harmony, joy and love.

     2. Wise words Golnaz. This is an understanding that has world changing potential.

     3. Beautifully expressed Golnaz. Living this truth and seeing people for the magnificence that we all truly could only transform all of our behaviours towards each other. Absolutely world changing.

     4. Thank you Golnaz, so beautifully expressed.

     5. That’s a lovely reminder Golnaz for us to be understanding of others when they behave in ways that are unloving.

241. That’s interesting that you could just change how you were feeling just like that, as soon as you felt the loveliness of your body and stillness, its like anger cannot be a part of that.

242. Engaging thoughts and trying to figure out the ‘why’ to an issue or a problem has been a long term way to guarantee getting bogged down for me, it’s an effective way to stagnate and so easy to be enticed by under the guise of ‘fixing’ it or more likely stopping the pain so I can live in Comfortville. What grace the practice of Esoteric Yoga offers, I have had similar experiences in Esoteric Yoga sessions and I marvel at the power of a practise that is so simply offering space to connect to me can be so deeply healing and revelatory. If I compare it to the time I have wasted rattling around my own head trying to ‘figure things out’ its expedient too. Of more significance, this post has helped me to realise the practise of Esoteric Yoga shows us just how powerful we are within, that is, that everything we need to heal ourselves and possibly even the world comes from connection within, not nutting it out in our heads.

     1. You’ve greatly exposed another path I’m sure we’ve all taken on the trip to ‘Comfortville’. I can definitely relate to what you’ve shared about spending hours and hours rattling around in your head trying to figure out the reasons for issues, and solutions to them. I too have done this to avoid actually dealing with them, and have indulged in finding solutions, rather than true ways forward.

        1. Funny Susie. I know ‘comfortville’ very well. So well in fact that I got there without even knowing it and stayed far longer than planned.

     2. Thank you, Deanne and Susie, for this powerful expansion, exposing the nonsense of trying to sort out ‘stuff’ in the same place that the ‘stuff’ was created – our heads. My inspiration and aspiration now is to let go to the always wisdom in my innermost – wisely guided by my body’s signals.

     3. It’s interesting that it’s the fact that we are in our heads thinking about things that create the issues in the first place, and then we go to the same place to try and resolve the issue…crazy! It’s like taking the same poison twice and expecting to feel better.

        1. When we go to our heads to try to resolve the issues we have created from our heads the issue amplifies and we feed further the drive to resolve the issue with more of the same. Round and round in the same merry go round. Crazy indeed.

        2. It’s so true Sandra, the way you have simply explained it, reveals how crazy it is that we create issues; and if we allowed ourselves to deeply connect to our body we would feel the warmth, stillness and preciousness of who we are. Emotions do not exist here.

243. What a standout moment of “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” then to allow the deep realisations to unravel and transform into feeling the truth of who you truly are. What a joy to read this blog. Thanks Gyl.

     1. This is a power awareness indeed… Esoteric yoga is such a powerful way to learn to be more tender with yourself.

244. It is powerful when we allow ourselves to feel whatever comes up for us in life with tenderness and love instead of beating ourselves up with guilt and shame which only buries things deeper within us. It is the stillness I experience with Esoteric Yoga that allows that deeper connection to the love and tenderness that I am .

     1. Absolutely franciscoclara8, I agree, being tender with ourselves is much more powerful, and deeply loving, which allows everything to be felt fully. Beating ourself up just hurts, and for me holds me back, and whatever there is there to be felt, let go of and clear.

     2. I can second this Francis when we allow ourselves to simply feel what is going on it brings a whole different of being; for example if we feel angry we could get frustrated and aggressive with people but from my experience when I stay connected to the way that I am feeling my interactions are a lot more responsible, and thus I don’t amplify within my own body whatever emotion I am currently in.

245. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” a real stop moment. Learning to stop being hard on myself was a big one for me – ongoing….But discovering that I can’t treat anyone better than I treat myself was a big wake-up call. A great sharing Gyl, thankyou.

246. I just realized this year how beautiful life can be if I really let go of ‘holding on to hurts’ and let emotional states go. It is quite unfamiliar but “wahooo!”-worth to practice!!!! Really exempting.

     1. I agree sandra schneider, letting go of hurts opens our hearts.

     2. I agree Sandra. Letting go go hurts has been incredibly freeing for myself and others, and has allowed my relationships to go to another level. As you say, well worth practicing.

     3. Beautiful Sandra, the weight of hurts and emotional drama feels like carrying around a black cloud above that dampens the warmth of who we really are. Your practice feels so freeing and light!

        1. Yes Aimee, to hold on to my hurts is like to choose a “black cloud” around my head and heart all the time that dampen my truth (and dampen my body) – very good picture!

247. I know this feeling of being hard on myself and yet, when I feel below the surface I am actually pretty cool and feeling good. That is why those moments of stillness and connection are so powerful. They offer a true reflection of how I am feeling within my body. Thank you.

     1. Hi Samantha, I have been aware of a similar experience recently – feeling amazing then actually doubting this amazingness, as in thinking maybe a little blip during the day has really knocked me off, but the fact is, it has not. And I giggled at the realisation and amazement of this, ” nope you are still amazing ‘. So it just exposes another game we can play, where we may go looking for things that are not actually true, to pull us down or make us live in a lesser way. Not a loving game to play.

248. This article beautifully exposes the falacy of resigning to the fact that our thoughts, emotions and behaviour are who we are. In our essence we are, every single one of us, far more gorgeous than our wildest dreams. When we support ourself to connect to the stillness within us we can feel for ourself the truth of this fact.

     1. Thank you for your comment Golnaz, it made me stop and enjoy the feeling of my own gorgeousness.

     2. I agree Golnaz, we are ‘more gorgeous than our wildest dreams’ , way more, absolutely divinely so.

     3. ‘Far more gorgeous that our wildest dreams’ – beautifully put and an inspiration for me today – thank you, Golnaz.

        1. I agree matildaclark, deeply inspiring to start my day.. “we are”…”far more gorgeous than our wildest dreams”….thank you Golnaz.

     4. Thank you Golnaz, I love how your expression has added to this blog.

     5. Love it Golnaz: “the fallacy of resigning to the fact that our thoughts, emotions and behaviour are who we are”. Life changing revelation to understand this!

249. I enjoyed reading your yoga experiences Gyl and how profound it must have been to realise that you were none of the critical and hard thoughts. Thank you for sharing.

250. The simplicity of connecting with myself, my own body and the space it has in the universe affords the blessing of knowing and deeply feeling all that I am not, and yet have used to bludgeon my way through the daily living experience known as life on earth. What is so amazing about this ever unfolding process, is that it is so simple to let go of those patterns, beliefs, judgements and harsh ways of being, for we are the light of God, and none of that truly exists.

     1. What a big and beautiful comment Lee. I’ve only recently started to get the benefit of Esoteric Yoga, and am now finding that the distance between how I may be feeling now, and that incredibly deep connection you refer to is only minutes away…

     2. Yes it is so simple to connect with ones own body , and how loving to take this time , even for a few seconds, to make sure we are registering what the body is saying. Such wisdom to be gained if we listen.

        1. I agree Felicity – Simplicity is definitely the way.

     3. Lee, what you have written here makes so much sense, if I connect to myself I can feel all that I am not. I stopped and felt what you have written and have found myself appreciating what I am by way of feeling what I am not. So simple but something I all too often complicate.

     4. So well said Lee: old habits die hard sometimes I sometimes have to pull myself up from going into those old pattern, beliefs, judgements and beating myself self when really those days are long gone. Life can be simple now to allow myself a deeper connection and acknowledge that those thoughts are not mine.

251. What you have shared here – that how you are with yourself is how you are with all others – is a timely truth for me to reflect on. As I drop into a deeper connection and acceptance of who I truly am, I can see the harshness and the judgement I have held against myself and others and the hurt it causes. Reading your blog was another opportunity to let this go. Thank you.

252. Dear Gyl what a joy this is to read and feel, your deep connection to your innate stillness is tangibly felt, such a healing for me too. Thank you for sharing this lovely moment.

253. It was a joy to read your Blog Gyl, I too judge myself in a critical hard way, and it feels such an ingrained habit. It was amazing that when you connected to yourself, that the Judgement simply dropped away, and you felt your loveliness. When we allow those negative voices or thoughts to run, run with us they will!

254. A lovely reminder of how it is not about fixing what is not true and not a part of who we are in truth, but deepening the stillness that we are – after all, yoga means connection and that is what Esoteric Yoga offers.

255. When I started Esoteric Yoga, seven years ago, I found it difficult – unbearable in fact. All I could feel at first was my agitation and the fact that my body was wound up tight like a spring. I did not recognise anything deeper in me because I was unfamiliar with what it meant to be still. As I continued the deeper essence started to shine through…and now I know that it was always there, just a little buried, like treasure under a layer of dust. The anger and the anxiousness are like a layer of dust over our beauty. So many of us think that the dust is all there is, until we chose to wipe or blow it away. Esoteric Yoga allows us to feel the magnificence inside us all, underneath the dust.
     Then, for the first time in a long time we have a real choice about what impels us.
     That is freedom.

256. So simply said Kristy, and such a powerful truth.

257. Gorgeous Gyl, I had an image the whole way through reading your blog as I have absolutely known this myself. I had a giggle or two, yes, I’ve done that, I do that, and I also felt the deep appreciation of what it is to hold ourselves in tenderness and grace, as we come to more awareness of how we are being with ourselves (and as you say, others), which isn’t always the easiest thing to feel. This is the space I feel Esoteric Yoga offers us so beautifully.

258. Esoteric Yoga has given me the opportunity to reconnect to my body and feel the stillness (for the first time) and the beauty which lies within. By experiencing this I now know I have a choice to stay with the emotions/thoughts as they come up or to let them go and reconnect back with my true self. Thanks for the reminder Gyl about how we are with ourselves is how we are with others.

259. Gyl it is such an interesting subject that you raise. It seems to be that the more we let go of the ‘what we are not’ the easier it is to let go of the ‘what we are not’. I had an experience the other day where I was feeling emotional and felt quite clearly that if I wanted to keep feeling that emotion I would have had to actually try quite hard to do so ! It was so much easier to let it go and be who I know myself to be, a steadiness and joy under the emotion.

260. Thank you, Gyl. Esoteric Yoga provides us with the opportunity to choose love, to be in relationship with our bodies and therefore with our divine nature. For me, it is fast becoming my greatest support because, having spent much of my life in my head, I am finally beginning to experience the everyday from me, my body and the truth that speaks to clearly when I listen.

261. I agree Ariana, this sentence has given me so much to sit with as I remind myslef of the how I often am with myself and how I am in control of this, it is up to me if I change.

262. Gyl, this blog is something I will remind myself of, and most definitely come back to and read again. To actually feel that the anger was not you and that you actually felt lovely is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this gem of a blog.

263. Thank you Gyl,

     This is a lovely reminder of how the way I am with myself impacts on everybody else around me and to know that I can always choose to come back and reconnect to the stillness within my body and from there I am able to appreciate the beauty and simplicity of life and others.

264. The other day after reading this blog I was clearer about how I had a choice, to either be in the sadness I was feeling or see that, that wasn’t really me and connect with who I really am. Thank you.

265. Every moment being a fresh opportunity – pretty cool – and in our hands.

266. Thank you Gyl, most hugely. I still often get stuck at the point of angry, tired, frustrated and/or sad, making that the stop point, that I then over analyse and, as you say, magnify. What a gift of a line ‘Anger – what Anger? I feel lovely.’ One that I now have in my toolkit for when the stagnation in the something ‘I am not’ next occurs. One more breath without judgement and I can start to feel the simple preciousness inside.

267. Beautiful Gyl and I can relate to much of this. I have been stunned when during esoteric yoga sessions I actually allow myself to feel what is there instead of going in with a preconceived idea of what should be there. There is a such a beauty when we allow ourselves to really feel what is there and how we are feeling. Even when the feelings are ones of raciness or wobbliness, feeling what is really there feels incredible. The honesty of what is there is beautiful.

268. How beautifully and poignantly shared Gyl. Esoteric Yoga is such an amazingly profound modality – oftentimes (well at least as I have experienced and witnessed myself) we seem to baulk at its simplicity, and the opportunity it offers us to truly stop to be with ourselves, and feel everything that is there to be felt.
     I love your description of meeting the self-recrimination and judgement, for in that deep place of being, if we surrender to it, such things stand out – they are not who we are, no, but until we feel them so and realise this at such a deep level, letting go is nigh impossible.
     I have had moments during Esoteric Yoga sessions – too innumerable to mention – of deep letting go, including tears… I’ve experienced moments of the most profound beingness and the exquisiteness of the Stillness that is my essence… I have felt and allowed my body to let go of so much that can accumulate in daily living, and cherished this deeply.
     This modality is for our times, and it is most sorely needed. Serge Benhayon has taught it to offer the deepest, true support. Appreciating also Gyl, the honesty and willingness to go deeper within oneself, such as you have shared so personally. Every one of us is blessed when we come back to this connection with our essential selves.

269. This really helps me consider, that how we are with ourself is how we are with others. If we are not loving we can’t be loving. What I take away at the moment is, if I don’t value myself, feel worthy or am self critical then am I not being the same with everyone else? So the responsibility to not stay with all the outside chatter and instead live from who we are, is not only for us, but equally for everyone. Esoteric Yoga is certainly a very supportive way to come back to the simplicity and innate feeling of love we are.

270. another gorgeous blog that continues to confirm that the body can speak loud and clear if we allow it.

271. I love how you have taken a moment to stop and appreciate Esoteric Yoga Gyl. It is a modality that enables our connection with ourselves to go deeper and deeper. There simply is no end!

272. When asked ” what do you get from an Esoteric Yoga session ?”
     I now can respond, “A feeling of absolute deep contentment, joy, connection and space, appreciating how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am ” your words speak my truth too,
     thank you Gyl

273. Beautiful, honest sharing of how esoteric yoga has helped transform your life.
     I too, have found this. Esoteric yoga has helped me develop the foundation of stillness in my body. From here my natural, divine inner essence is felt , and everything else felt on the surface of this is clearly who I am not.

274. Several times I’ve had feelings of anger or fury when deeply connecting, like it was there underlying what I could actually feel. Until it’s reached, touched-on, then nominated and processed, goodness knows what that’s doing to my day – because everyone knows we’re not naturally angry furious people. We’re much lovelier than that.

275. It is crazy how we can allow a thought to take over our mind and then we indulge it and get caught in the emotions, to only to make us feel worse in our body. So it is really great now that we are able to catch the thought and no longer give it the energy, or indulge and bring it back to the life that we are, by just simply bringing focus back to the stillness in the body.

276. Gyl this is a great sharing of your sessions with Esoteric Yoga, I too have felt an enormous support from this modality and letting myself to go deeper in feeling me in my body. What you say about all the thoughts that are not us, but we give them power is so true. It’s a choice to not let those thoughts come in and just be who we naturally are is so much easier and loving.

277. The support that Esoteric Yoga gives me is enormous. It is a moment of truly being with myself, connecting with my body and feeling into how things are going. For me this is the only form of yoga that invites me to connect with my body and to simply be with me. Doing this in the morning has a huge impact on how my day is.

278. ‘I let go of all these thoughts that were not me.’ Great, Gyl to get such distance from our thoughts and emotions that we can recognize that they are not who we are. By letting them go we easily return to our natural way of being which is playfully joyous, light-heated and open.

279. In seeing this blog again it reminded me of a session I was leading the other day and how in an instant I had a choice as to what type of leadership I brought to the activity. I could choose to be quiet and reserved or I could give all of me. In choosing the latter I could feel the change in my demeanour as I connected to a teaching style that I know well but that a moment earlier I had been resisting and gave the participants a far better session than my previous demeanour was going to allow. It is all a choice and I know now I can change in an instant how I am and what I give out.

280. Gyl, this is so lovely because it exposes how we can get stuck in emotions instead of connecting to who we truly are and living the equisite beauty of that place.

281. “I still compared myself to others somewhere in the country or on the opposite side of the globe – judging myself in how I moved or when I moved – and then critiquing myself, thinking others would judge me if they saw me, when all along, none of this was actually true.” Isn’t it weird how we do this? And it is so draining. Thank you for cutting through this, Gyl.

     1. Not that long ago I lived like that 24/7. Now I have been finding the more I manage to notice when comparison and judgement creeps in, and the more I acknowldege that those thoughts are something I am caught up in and not the real me, the less frequent these thoughts become and the less hold they have on me.

282. We can be far too hard and judgemental on ourselves at times. I know I can be and although it is less as I am learning to appreciate and be more loving with myself, it still catches me out. It is introduced into the body and it is great to be reminded of this.Thank you for sharing.

283. I love this Gyl. Esoteric Yoga is an awesome modality and what I am finding is that once we have let go of those negative thoughts/emotions we are in a much better place to observe as to how the thought/emotion was there in the first place.

284. Doug, a lovely way of describing how Esoteric Yoga supports us…a bit like a reset button.

285. The stillness beauty and joy of Esoteric yoga we are inside us all is such a gift through this modality to truly feel who we are.A beautiful reading and sharing thank you I love true yoga and living with this harmony also what a great support it is too in our lives.

286. I agree that when we make the choice to deeply connect through being present in our body, all those nagging feelings just simply fall off and we are left with the awesome beauty, us. And that is what happens in esoteric yoga sessions. Clearing and presence. Ever deepening. How great is that!
     You also helped me realize something important when you say: “I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.” When there is a nagging feeling or thought, and I try to avoid it, fight it or try to figure it out, I perpetuate its presence, but when I am aware and responsible enough to just feel what there is there, and accept it, I allow an openness where I can actually feel my essence.

287. Gyl as someone that was put off by Yoga and all the posses and things you had to do that were meant to be good for you but never felt like they were, its great to get back to true yoga to esoteric yoga. The simplicity I also feel is a marked difference to the seeming ease yet complex drive to do and look good/right in mainstream yoga. It feels like with esoteric yoga there is an allowing to connect and feel what is there – in that the healing takes place. There is no pressure and the busyness of life falls away. It’s quite incredible to see all the things that we think we are drop off as we allow ourself to lovingly feel our body.

288. Yes, “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” – we can just offer to the world what we live.

     1. Beautifully said, such a simple yet inspiring and life changing offering.

289. Thank you for your sharing Gyl, Esoteric Yoga is indeed a true God send, a true way to re-connect to our bodies which allows us to feel where we may be holding on to tension or an emotion that does not belong. The more I practice esoteric yoga the more awareness I have of my body. My body feels more alive, and this supports me in being consciously present with myself, letting go of any tension I am holding in my body and connecting to the stillness within.

     1. That is a beautiful way to describe Esoteric Yoga Sandra, “a true way to re-connect to our bodies which allows us to feel where we may be holding on to tension or an emotion that does not belong”. I used to practice another type of yoga which seemed to be all about forcing my body into postures that hurt and create more tension! How gorgeous to allow our bodies to rest and be still, so we can see who we really are and what does not belong in us. Taking a moment to truly rest, re-pose and observe ourselves is such a valuable gift in this busy world of ours.

290. Beautiful Gyl, it was a blessing to read your blog.

291. Thank you, Gyl. This blog feels more amazing on the second read! A beautiful, beautiful unfolding and reconnection from just one esoteric yoga session.

292. Thank you Gyl, what a love-bomb of an article. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” – wow, definitely a moment to stop and consider this, and to really deepen our responsibility ~ Is that the key to letting people in? Letting our true selves be embodied first and foremost?

     1. Arianne thanks for your comment linking Gyl’s statement with your question re letting people in. I’ve struggled with letting people in, but your question has helped me reflect that perhaps I’ve not let myself in, or rather opened the doors to my inner heart and let my love out into my entire being. Could it be that simple? It’s worth finding out.

293. Gyl I could really relate to what you have written. So many times I have found myself going mental on something that someone else said or something I thought I was feeling which has sent me on a wild goose chase instead of just being open to it and letting it develop if it is in fact anything at all or simply what I’m feeling from others.
     I’ve found it to be very consuming and it switches you off from being who you truly are.

294. This is very beautiful Gyl,. This really resonates with me; “it was just such a blessing to feel this in my body with tenderness and grace, and not beating myself up and claiming I did not want to be this way”. Thank you for writing this Gyl, I really enjoyed reading it.

295. Thanks Gyl , I relate to much that has been expressed. I also like what Greg said ,an awesome reflection to remind us that we are not our thoughts ” and the importance of discerning our thoughts and checking in to feel if they are real and serving or just a distraction,smokescreen or sabotage program ,trying to make us lessor”.

296. A great article Gyl and so easy to relate too, a great reminder to truly listen to my body all the time not just when it’s convenient for me to stop and do so.

     1. So true! Our body is constantly communicating to us. Some of what the body says is obvious. But often the body is communicating very subtly. And esoteric yoga is an incredible way to connect to the subtly of what the body is saying.

297. Wow Gyl, what a reminder, “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”, often I find it easy to indulge in selfish behaviours, which then by virtue, is the quality I am with other people, Ouch! But also it is very easy to put others above yourself, and put your body on line for the care of others, however in doing this we are actually only presenting a quality that is of the level of your relationship with yourself.

     1. Awesome, Oliver, a big one for me right now, thank you for shining the light on it with your words.

     2. Well said, Oliver – the quality with which we care for others is always determined by the level of love that we have for ourselves. A great reminder!

     3. Thank you for highlighting this Oliver, such an important reminder and takes us to a new level of responsibility. We really should grow up learning this at school!

298. Thank you Gyl for your very beautiful and inspiring blog. I haven’t done the Esoteric Yoga before and I am now inspired to try it. I would love to learn how to connect to my body more, let go of anger, judgement, comparison and connect deeply to my inner most. Learn to truly live fully connected to myself and others.

299. Thank you Gyl, an awesome reflection to remind us that we are not our thoughts.

     1. Nicely summed up Greg, its very empowering to consider that actually we can be more than the thoughts we might be having at that moment – say we are sad or hurt by something – if we recognise that the sadness and hurt and the thoughts and feelings that come with that are not us, we can take a step back and look at the issue as separate from ourselves, rather than being the issue.

        1. Great that we have tools like Esoteric Yoga and The Gentle Breath Meditation to help us step back from the emotion and let go of it.

        2. I agree Catherine, the gentle breath mediation is also an amazing technique.

        3. I think it is something that happens all too often. We learn to identify with the emotions we feel, evidenced by the fact we say ‘I am sad’ or ‘I am angry’ when in fact we are not those things, we are simply feeling those things. Life becomes far easier when we aren’t seeing ourselves as the issue.

300. Thank you Gyl,

     This blog hit the spot this morning as I have been waking with a tight jaw lately and I hadn’t quite been able to understand why, but after reading this blog I can now start to get a sense of the times when I am being hard on myself or holding myself a little protected around others. Like you said, this is not who we are and when we take the pressure off we are left with a truly precious being.

     1. Beautifully expressed Rebecca, ‘when I am being hard on myself or holding myself a little protected around others. Like you said, this is not who we are and when we take the pressure off we are left with a truly precious being.’ I can feel from my personal experience how important it is to be gentle and loving with myself instead of being hard and critical, if I allow myself to feel my vulnerability, then I am left with this precious being.

        1. I find this too. It is an automatic response that I have used over time to protect myself. Underneath this protection I feel so vulnerable so it is understandable why any of us would want to protect ourselves, but what I am learning is that if I accept this vulnerability and show love to myself and others I am less likely to get hurt. It actually hurts me more to hold on to the hardness in my body and keep other people out.

        2. Loved that Rebecca. Being open and vulnerable to how we feel leaves us being precious! I have so avoided that all my life, even the word seems alien to me when I look at it from no connection to my body, and when I do connect of course I am precious, as we are all, we are just masters of hiding it from everyone, including ourselves.

        3. The whole world seems to be geared to keep us in a hard and critical place towards ourselves, but it is so wonderful to see another being tender and precious and loving towards themselves and others, inspiring. Those I have met through Universal Medicine have most definitely inspired me to be more that way. My relationships have changed as a result, specifically because I changed my relationship with me first. No more critique or hardness for me thanks, it hurts too much, not only myself but others too, and if and when it does creep in it is noticed and dealt with immediately. Life is so much sweeter.

     2. For me too Rebecca – I’m often quite protected around others; restricting how much I share, what I say, and like you sometimes walk around with a tight jaw. This is certainly not who I am! And this only happens when I hold myself in anger or frustration.

     3. Taking the pressure off and giving ourselves the grace to let go into a deeper level of awareness, with our thoughts set aside and our bodies as our guides.

     4. Thank you Rebecca and Gil for this reminder. It serves me as well to connect with my preciousness, it helps me to let go of all the pressure and hardness I put on myself, which then leads to frustration and anger, a tight jaw and rigidity in my arms.

        1. It’s great you said about your arms Judith as I was walking along and could feel a tension in my arms that was like lock arms! I realised I was putting myself under pressure to conform to trying to look the part at work- like work can’t be fun.

           And then I remembered it was crazy to be intimidated by professional looking blouses (yes hilariously true) and people working studiously at their desks. I had to reconnect with myself and feel the beauty and truth of what I bring to let go of my comparison and need to feel secure in conforming.

           I can feel my preciousness at work and feel how healing it is for not just myself.

301. It is one of the gifts I have been given by Universal Medicine, to know that we all have that place of stillness within us. When I have been supported to reach a level of stillness, connect to a deeper part of me and reflect like you have, I have managed to see that a lot of what I thought was the true me, such as my emotions, my thoughts and my beliefs did not actually reside in this deeper part of me. What a blessing. This has truly transformed my life.

     1. That is a very beautiful comment Golnaz and I agree, Universal Medicine has also put me in touch with a place of stillness within from which I could begin to observe myself and my choices and like you and Gyl, begin to see that I am so much more than my emotions and thoughts. We are all so much more glorious than we realise and with the support of the esoteric yoga as presented by Universal Medicine, we can realise our potential to re-establish a life that honours and supports who we truly are.

     2. I agree, Golnaz, the opportunity to connect with our deep inner stillness is truly a blessing, and the Esoteric Yoga is a great way to make that connection.

     3. Beautiful Golnaz ” I have managed to see that a lot of what I thought was the true me, such as my emotions, my thoughts and my beliefs did not actually reside in this deeper part of me’ knowing and feeling this truly is a gift. To feel the divine fullness of who we are Is absolutely life changing.

302. Thank you, Gyl for sharing the simplicity and beauty of Esoteric Yoga. It is an awesome modality that supports us to let go and connect with our innermost and truly feel what is going on in the body, and not what our trickster mind is telling us.

303. A beautiful way ti describe how those emotions we get caught up in are not really from us but moving through us, Gyl, and how we retain them in our bodies by trying to work out where they came from. Your discovery in an Esoteric Yoga session, when you were so still it was possible to feel what you were truly feeling, shows us how important it is to connect with and live from the stillness that is always there for us if we choose it.

     1. So true Joan. It is through connection to stillness that our bodies then share the awareness and truth of who we are and what we are truly feeling.

304. Great blog Gyl,the power of Esoteric Yoga never ceases to amaze me if I allow myself to be still without the old mind running off on a tangent trying its level best to take me away from being able to truly connect.

305. Hi Gyl. I was feeling and expressing just tonight with my wife how massively important it is to give yourself space and connect. Eso Yoga offers space and connection — Eso Yoga is union with the body. As this modality teaches Union with the body is an all day modality. How many times when something is not right we do not allow space to make that issue small again. Stop and create some space to expand again. Only when we focus on it your loveliness gets pushed out. You only have to mark a good feeling and accept nothing less there-after.

306. Well said Jane, the mind is so strong and all of the sudden you are caught in a story, feeling miserable and creating issues that are not there….and then to come back to the body, where the true knowing lies.

     1. Absolutely, and the truth that is there underneath the stillness and love – never wavering. It’s worth paying attention to and making that the focus!

307. Beautiful sharing Gyl – and shows the simplicity of esoteric yoga and how it helps create the space for us to feel and let go of so much and hence feel the deeper connection with ourselves.

     1. The simplicity of esoteric yoga indeed, Henrietta. Beautifully expressed.

308. “…it was just such a blessing to feel this in my body with tenderness and grace, and not beating myself up and claiming I did not want to be this way. “ These are very powerful life changing words and experience Gyl As is your sharing of connecting to what is truly with-in and not the blah blah of the head chatter.

309. I can feel your love for Esoteric Yoga, and your love for yourself. I love your surprise that when you tuned into your body you were not actually angry. What amazing tools Esoteric Yoga gives us that we can then use in our lives.

310. Thank you Gyl, your description of the difference between the felt sense in your body and the emotional state from your mind was so exposing. I have a simple choice in each moment to connect to who I truly am from my body or to engage in the story, reactions and emotions from my head.

311. Thank you Gyl, “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”, just is so simple yet powerful to read. It’s obvious when I think about it, but it jumped off the page when I read it, energetically we all feel this.

312. “What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am.” beautiful comment Gyl. I love Esoteric Yoga – it really suppors me to live my day more connected with myself.

313. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” – this is the quote of the day for me. As soon as I read it my whole body just stopped as I could feel how much truth comes from this.

     1. I agree Madeline, so simple and so true.

     2. For me too Madeline and one I will definitely carry forward.

314. Thank you Gyl for so many lovely reminders concerning the way we think and the reality of our body, which are so different.

     1. Roslyn it’s quite fascinating just how we can let ourselves get caught up in our thoughts, in our emotions and how complicated and all consuming that can feel. Yet when we actually let ourselves feel our body, something that can be hard if we are caught up, it’s not long before we feel a simplicity underneath that, and in many cases can say “what was I on about!”

        1. This made me laugh David, “what was I on about!”, I have asked myself this question many times, and who was this ‘I’ that was choosing complexity in the first place.

315. What a beautiful sharing Gyl – you support everyone to become aware that who they are is not the sum of their thoughts, but the joy, beauty and stillness of what lies deep within. Thank you.

316. So true Gyl that our emotions are not us. They are just distractions to keep us from being who we truly are–in our full glory.

     1. Very true 1heart1love1earth, and it took me years to discover that!

317. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. A beautiful and shinning little gem you are Gyl, along with the quote….! This is a simple reminder that when you love and care for yourself first, then you can truly love others. Thank you for sharing.

318. How precious is it to be “asked to be aware of how we were feeling that morning.”? This has not been asked in the yoga classes I have attended in the past, or any of my previous body or movement classes. Asking ourselves this question, often, is a great key to identifying what’s running inside us. The fact that you could lie there and say: “That’s easy, I feel angry this morning” allows the opportunity to shine your light on the whys and hows with yourself, and let go, clear, heal whatever it is instead of blasting other people with a ‘ray gun’ of harm! The result: understanding, responsibility, clearer and more loving expression. Esoteric yoga is the best!

319. “How you are with yourself is how you are with others” I know this to be true. My mind was full of beliefs and ideals I had to live by. They are slowly melting away, and at times, I can feel the loveliness of seeing someone or myself for who we truly are. To capture this loveliness every moment of every day is still a work in progress.

320. I love esoteric yoga. By doing nothing and just being; how we truly, are as apposed to how we think we are, is revealed.

     1. yes tim, and it’s interesting that how we truly are is so much grander than how we think we are!

321. Thank you for your sharing, esoteric yoga does really give you that true stop moment to connect to the self the body.

     1. Yes it does, and if we choose that, we can take these stop moments out with us and apply them to our day too.

322. ‘I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.’
     This really stood out for me Gyl and something I am becoming more aware of.
     I deeply appreciate your sharing and am humbled by your honesty.

323. Loved reading about your experience practising Esoteric Yoga Gyl, it is a truly profound modality isn’t it …. I too have experienced many amazing moments in sessions …. and what’s also beautiful about it is that it is so supportive for living life.

324. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” is some more gold for the pot. As soon as I read this, I couldn’t help but check-in with myself. Thanks for sharing this Gyle – a beautiful reminder to start the day with.

325. A wonderfully simple account of how connection to our body is fundamental in self-awareness.

326. It’s such a tricky thing with these emotions, they seem to be so very well designed to keep us short of the fact how amazingly lovely we all are.

327. Thank you Gyl for your honesty and for sharing an awesome stop moment in allowing yourself to feel the truth that the body knows. These are such precious moments that allow us to discard the false stories and emotions that we allow run the show. Really touching. Thank you.

328. This is gorgeous, Gyl. I could feel the beauty in your revelations coming through your words. What got me right from the beginning was the realisation that the thoughts you were having were being magnified by trying to figure them out. Ha! What a trick we play on ourselves! I have done that umpteen million times, always thinking that I am doing myself some good by “getting to the bottom of things” and coming up with an answer to whatever issue I have decided to ruminate at that point in time. But the truth is I have just been spinning a small ball of yarn into a huge one….

329. Gyl, what a lovely momentum out of stillness you have created from undertaking the esoteric yoga. Such a loving example of how our bodies hold so much information when we are able to stop and feel and appreciate what is going on. Thank you – I now feel inspired to look further into how I can start joining in the yoga classes.

330. Gyl, your article really suggests to me that, YES, how possible it is that the mind can play absolute tricks on us and how a very simple connection to our body can give us a true reading of where we are actually at. This is something I really don’t do enough of…I let my mind rule the absolute roost! Another reminder that there is another way!

331. I love the way you share of your Esoteric Yoga session, it was a space to feel yourself beyond the anger that you had walked in with. And what you found in that space was “a feeling of absolute deep contentment, joy”. Such rich rewards for something so simple.

332. How we treat others is so relatable to how we treat ourselves, and how much care we have for us, and therefore, for them also.

333. A beautiful recognition to the fact that how we are feeling does not change who we are.

334. It is such a great insight to realise that the way we are with everyone else is the way we are with ourselves.

335. That’s the most amazing thing: when the body is showing us who we are! It is constantly talking – and the esoteric yoga is a great tool to connect with it and listen. I totally agree with you*

336. Gyl, you expressed everything that I have felt while doing an online yoga class. The way you expressed was in such a truly loving way of yourself, I can feel I will be reading this again and again, thank you .

337. Gyl what a beautiful yoga session. Your statement at the beginning “I can see a pattern of how I magnify these thoughts by trying to figure it out.” is one I can so relate to for that was my way too before studying with Universal Medicine. I’ve come to understand how much the mind takes us away from the truth that is in our bodies – it literally leads us up the garden path but away from ourselves. I’ve also found esoteric yoga to be a powerful tool to reconnect to the stillness in my body and it just feels so exquisite, I feel so exquisite.

338. Hmmm Gyl, the more I read the more I dropped into my body and could connect strongly to what you describe: ‘a feeling of absolute deep contentment, joy, connection and space; I could appreciate and feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am.’ Thank you.

339. What an absolute joy to read your blog, I love it. You magnify your thoughts by trying to figure it out, I know that one….Thank you Gyl for the simplicity, truth and joy that you bring.

340. I love your blog Gyl as it is not only showing the immense beauty and healing power of Esoteric Yoga, but it also demonstrates through your living experience how our emotions and hurts in truth are not real and only a top layer. If we allow ourselves to drop deeper, underneath this layer we will find what is always there, unchangeable, the beauty and loveliness that we innately are.

341. Such and honest and beautiful expression Gyl. Esoteric Yoga is such an amazing connection to the what is, and what is not.

342. lovely Gyl,…“how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”… Such a powerful awareness to have and the responsibility you have taken for the quality of all your relationships, including the one with yourself.

343. Thank you Gyl, you blow the idea that you can be kind and loving to one particular person or group and cruel to others (like yourself), right out of the water. It is very cool how you saw that this way of being was not true and definitely not you. Esoteric Yoga is simply beautiful, and so are we.

344. Gyl, it is so interesting how the mind would have you believe that morning that you were angry when in fact the body did not register that at all. So what is going on there? Could it be that the body knows as much, if not more of what is going on with us, than the mind does? To me, it shows the truth of what Serge Benhayon means when he says “the body is the marker of all truth”. The body knows while the brain can be fooled.

     1. I absolutely agree with every word Elizabeth.

     2. Great comment Elizabeth, I absolutely agree “the body is the marker of all truth”.

345. Love this article Gyl and I love Esoteric Yoga too. I have learnt so much about simply accepting what I feel and not judging myself through attending Esoteric Yoga classes which has then supported me to take this level of acceptance and non-judgement out into my life. The quality of stillness I have felt in a class is very beautiful and deeply healing. Esoteric Yoga is the only yoga for me 🙂

346. Fantastic Gyl. I am currently doing a yoga program online and I can say that it is truly an amazing modality to re-connect with myself. Every session is different and each is a marker for me to surrender myself more and more. I love it.

347. This is just beautiful Gyl, and what an amazing reminder that the emotions that we feel are not part of who we truly are but something that we let in. Thank you for sharing, I loved reading it.

348. A timely reminder;
     “How you are with yourself is how you are with others”

     A wise statement

349. Thank you Gyl for the simple confirmation in how we hold ourselves, is the same energy we treat everyone else with. This allows a great opportunity to see what is driving ‘us’ for we can easily see how we treat others but fail to recognize that we are ‘applying’ the behaviour to our self, first.

     1. agree

350. Thank you for sharing Gyl.
     There should be more real and supporting on line programmes like the one you mention here Gyl. That one line ““how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”.
     says so much and there is no getting away with it because it is the Truth.
     I can recall a long time ago being very uncaring and abusive towards myself and that came out of me in my relationships. Ugly but True.
     Thank God I came across the work of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon which supported me to deal with my ugly stuff and now I find it very easy to deal with anything that comes up. I understand it is my reality but at the same time I know it is not the Truth.
     I take full responsibility for ALL of my choices and yes I make mistakes but I see that as learning and no longer have a need to blame anyone and anything.

     1. “I understand it is my reality but at the same time I know it is not the Truth.
        I take full responsibility for ALL of my choices and yes I make mistakes but I see that as learning and no longer have a need to blame anyone and anything.” Great words and truth Bina, and ones I am working on, claiming the Truth in everything and taking full responsibility. I actually love it when I feel I am going to blame someone else or even a situation, I stop and say nope, this is for you to accept responsibility and work on your part. How amazing as an opportunity is that, and such freedom too. I have to say thank God for Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon too, for allowing me the freedom to see and feel everything much more clearly. Now that is love.

     2. Dear Gyl and Bina, your realizations and actions are inspirational. I will take them into my day and hold them close as I am my worst enemy a lot of my daily life. When I do it today I will remember your words and make another choice-to honor and appreciate me. I beat myself up on a daily basis and I want to find another, truer way to be. For I know that is not really me. I know I am aligning to an empty lie, and I have the choice to continue or stop and say simply ‘nope’. I know I am so much more. Thank you for helping me see this.

351. Thank you Doug, yes I love honesty. It is an allowing to feel grace and move forward, I wonder if that’s why many ( myself included at times) resist being still. By that I don’t just mean Esoteric Yoga but moments, stopping and connecting to our body and feeling. But in saying that Esoteric Yoga is not something only to be practised on a mat or lying down, I know when I remember I am trying to practice this at work, at my desk, in my chair, when I walk. And I have to thank Serge Benhayon for that.

352. I love this Gyl, I read this yesterday and it was a great for me to take into my day. when I felt a bit irritated with myself it reminded me to go deeper and to question the expectations I had of myself. Thank you for your sharing.

     1. Hi Samantha I totally agree expectations can be a killer. They put so much pressure on us and others. They take us away from that innate joy of being still, present in the moment and in our body.

353. This is a gorgeous sharing Gyl of your experience with Esoteric Yoga. It is truly a beautiful modality that does not ask anything of us other than to simply be who we are.

     1. “that does not ask anything of us ” Marcia I can feel how profound this comment is, in the sense of how freeing it feels in my body when there is no imposition and I am allowed to just be. It immediately made me feel, how in life I have asked of people or life to be something for me and how imposing this is. I know and have felt the responsibility I have to now to go out into the world and just be, not asking anything of the situation or anybody.

354. Beautiful Gyl. The truth you expressed that the way we are with ourselves is the way we are with others, made me stop in my tracks. This is something I want to explore more, although I can already feel it resonating within me! It goes deep!

355. Absolutely beautiful Gyl. Esoteric Yoga truly gives us the space to stop and feel what we are carrying around with us unnecessarily, and helps us to feel our loveliness underneath. A gorgeous account of this amazing modality. Thank you.

     1. I agree we carry so much stuff around with us that is unnecessary and the joy of letting that go is felt in the body, leaving us to feel the truth of how lovely we really are.

356. That’s exactly what they do ” critical thoughts run us ragged.” It’s no wonder then that some people need stimulants such as coffee – a crazy merry go round.

357. The honesty of your blog has helped me feel the difference between what my mind can spill out when I am not coming from / connected to my body. It helps me further appreciate and feel the amazingness of my body and what it is able to tell me because it is connected to truth.

     This is super helpful when my head can’t get around the immense healing that is there when I simply connect to my body – surely it has to be more complicated than this? my head will say. Surely it can’t be this simple! But the more times I connect, which has been supported with esoteric yoga, the more I realise it is this simple.

     What a lovely way to start my day appreciating this simple fact. Thank you Gyl.

358. This is really enlightening and exposing with what you have shared. How we can ‘think’ we are feeling something when actually when we connect and listen to our body it can be the complete opposite! Also that comparison only comes from us, to the point that we can compare ourselves with others even when we are on our own! Crazy! This exposes the illusion of comparison beautifully .. and how ultimately there is no need to compare anyway as we are all equally as lovely, amazing or beautifull as the next person.

359. It is remarkable to feel how strong the comparison is within us, to feel comparison when in a room by yourself is a stark reminder of how controlling it can be. Great to be able to clock this and move away from judging yourself so harshly. I am my biggest critic, and this self criticism not only holds me back but would be transferred onto others who I meet. Quite a realisation and a big responsibility to not allow these thoughts to dominate.

360. Esoteric Yoga is such a supportive modality, that allows us, from a place of stillness, to be aware of what is truly us and what is truly not us.

361. Thank you Gyl for your article, what a great expose on how easily persistent thoughts can creep in and become a story. How important it is to discern what is fact and what is pure fiction.

362. A vey beautiful description of some wonderful moments and awareness of yourself and how this plays out in the world. And yes this particular moment is one to appreciate “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. One for us all to consider.

363. Thank you Gyl – Yours was the first blog I tuned into this morning and how appropriate that was too – no such thing as coincidence! Of late I’ve felt the odd anger sensation bubble to the surface and asking the same question Why? After feeling more into this I realised it was one of immense frustration I had within myself – and yes making a comparison to others – once I connected back to who I truly am the lightness and playfulness returned and the realisation that anger, frustration and the big one comparison serves no one. A great sharing Gyl thank you.

364. Thank you Marika. There is so much wisdom in the body, and so much love and grace. So why do we try to run away from it? I feel it is about self responsibility. If we feel, really feel from our body, then we cannot hide how amazing we are, and the loving choices we feel and know to make, I know this is true for me, and I too feel so clearly what is not love and have to own up to the unloving choices I have made. I wonder too, that if we feel more, honour and act upon those feelings, the more amazing and powerful we feel and become, and for some this might be scary. And we can also let go of all the dramas and thoughts that identify us as being individuals, we can feel we are all one and the same.

365. The power of Esoteric Yoga for connecting with ourselves is immense and un-challengable. This modality will transform the world once it gets out there.

366. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. This is something I realise more and more everyday. This allows me to not judge myself for how I am with other people but look at how I am with myself and build love in my body through developing self love.

367. Lovely Gyl. I often run with an emotional story, magnifying it out of all proportion – when really it is something I have called in and make bigger simply by focusing on it. To simply stop and connect to the stillness that is there is a beautiful leveller as it puts everything back into perspective. I have found that these emotions and thoughts are hugely distracting and that I have to keep working at saying no to them. However the more I do this the more room I leave to be the real me and the more consistent and steady I become.

368. Thank you Gyl, lovely to read and be reminded our thoughts are not who we are, we are the stillness and joy within. Esoteric yoga is a gentle powerful way to align with our true selves through a deep connection with our body.

369. I really enjoyed reading this blog Gyl – full of wise reflections that echo my own experiences. When we bring our full body into the equation it just shows us how damaging, disruptive and unreal our thoughts can be.

370. This is great to read Gyl, ‘The anger had been something that was not part of me, something I thought I felt, from my head, but in truth when I allowed myself the time and the space to stop and truly connect to my body, I could actually feel how lovely I was.’ I noticed at a Women in Livingness group that I attended recently that I had thoughts of self-doubt and that by saying this was how I was feeling and taking this on it become all encompassing, later in the group when I had re-connected to me, the self-doubt had gone and I realised that it was a choice to take this on and that it was not me and I could choose simply to not be in self-doubt.

371. Esoteric yoga is so simple and yet has such a profound effect. Through it I am able to connect to my body very deeply and really feel what is going on. It has also helped me become aware of how busy my head is and the types of thoughts I can let my mind get caught up with.

372. I can totally relate Gyl to what you say here about being hard on ourselves and therefore hard on others. I have also experienced this phenomenon and have realised that the more tender and loving I am with me the more I am like this with others also. I have found esoteric yoga very helpful in re-connecting back to that tenderness that is always there.

373. This is beautiful Gyl, thank you for sharing your experience and a great reminder of how we take on feelings and identify ourselves with them, such as anger, and the truth is inside we are not that at all for inside us all is the well of love that we truly are, awaiting our connection and expression.

374. Thanks Gyl, your article offers such a profound sharing. I appreciate you re-stating that ‘how you are with yourself is how you are with others’. When I first really heard those words I was also reduced to tears, wondering about the worth I had unthinkingly and unfeelingly ascribed myself and others. Huge revelations to assimulate into a new sense of being in the world.

375. Thank you Gyl for sharing your awareness about distinguishing between emotional thoughts and feelings, and for describing how you really felt when you re-connected to your body. It is great to be reminded of how tricky our thoughts can be, and that we can choose to feel the warmth and love inside instead of allowing the critical thoughts run us ragged.

376. I found this blog very inspiring. Especially where you have said how you are with yourself is how you are with others… I have been noticing myself going into sympathy for clients when they share with me their sad stories, instead of truly supporting and staying strong in myself. I then noticed how I have not been fully supporting myself and sometimes sympathising with myself! Great realisation because if I ever want to change how I am with others, I need to change it with myself first and naturally that will change how I am with people.

     1. Ariel I am so with you on this, I didn’t think I did sympathy, but I do. (ouch) And in truth, it doesn’t support anybody. I end up actually taking on their stuff, and with that the clarity goes of what is truly needed to support everybody.

377. Gyl as someone who also attends esoteric yoga sessions online and really enjoys them, this is a very supportive blog to read and reflect on my experiences. The part where you hold and perhaps judge and compare how you move, when you move etc. even though you are in your own room has been something I’ve also experienced and now thanks to your blog will explore this deeper and let my focus be on my expression in those moments with less concern about looking the right part. It also makes me realise if how I hold myself is in judgement then just how much am I filtering everyone else with that same judgement?

     1. I agree David, it was a huge revelation for me, I knew it, but I really got to feel it in my body. This was the difference.

378. I’ve been completing a 6 week programme of the Esoteric Yoga, and its extraordinary how effective it is at just reconnecting me to my body. It highlights how I often start the session feeling hard or that I get stuck in my head thinking too much. The beauty is that it is not difficult to do.

     1. I agree Simon, the 6 week programmes are amazing, they offer such a blessing to connect deeper with our bodies, our innate wisdom and the truth. Not only in that moment, by as by a way of reflecting how we have been living that week, the choices we have made, and allow for more unfolding, understanding and growth in the week to come.

379. What has struck a chord with me Gyl is the moment you realised that being ‘hard’ on yourself meant that which you were choosing was going out to all others. I have always known this but stubbornly ignored the truth so that it did not get in the way I wanted to hurt myself. A revelation that what we magnify for ourselves we present to everyone, everywhere.

380. Hi Gyl, I also am a great lover of esoteric yoga, although my spirit would run a mile when given half the chance. That still connection is truly a wonderful thing and being able to truly feel how we are without judgement is priceless.

     1. Kev I agree, this past month my whole body has been calling loud and very very clear to stop more and be still, and it’s taken me a while shall we say, to listen to this. I thought it was because I was avoiding feeling all this awful stuff, total nonsense, it was in fact I was avoiding feeling how amazing I am.

381. Thank you Gyl Rae, I can relate to all that you describe so well.
     Hiding behind a massive amount of thoughts, may seem practical not to have to take responsibility, and I have kept me busy and distracted with it for all my life.
     Once we choose to look at the fact that the only one responsible for our lives is ourselves, we will see clearer and clearer how beautiful and simple life is and how absolutely wonderful we are :o)

     1. “Once we choose to look at the fact that the only one responsible for our lives is ourselves, we will see clearer and clearer how beautiful and simple life is and how absolutely wonderful we are ” I agree, I have avoided responsibility for a long time, but the truth is the more I choose to be responsible the more clear I feel and the more amazing life is.

382. A joy to read Gyl. What a lot of amazing wow moments. Just beautiful

     1. Thank you janneprice

383. Thank you Gyl, it’s amazing what our bodies can reveal to us when we simply allow ourselves to connect and be still. Esoteric Yoga has really supported me to appreciate the delicateness of me and to detach from those thoughts,judgments and hardness that tries to ‘run the show’ and distinctly see that they are not me at all.

384. This ia a great revelation to me Gyl Rae “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. As you say, I too can awake with a thought that stays with me the whole day and influences how I relate with all people I meet. What a blessing it is if we are able to observe ourselves and recognise that this thought is not us but something that we use to make us feel much less from that we so naturally are within. The Esoteric Yoga as being presented by Universal Medicine, is a modality that supports us in reconnecting to our body where we can meet our true selves. And in my experience, what I find there is far from my tiny thoughts, I am much grander and innately filled with an immense love, joy and playfulness.

     1. “What a blessing it is if we are able to observe ourselves” this is such a powerful comment, the ability to observe. It’s funny, as last night I was feeling emotions, which I started to indulge in, then into my mind popped the word “observe”. As soon as I did this, my feelings were less intense, I was not absorbed in it and nor did I believe it to me, it was just very clear it was something to be aware of.I know it was happening because I was in reaction to not wanting to feel. This has been one of the most profound and life changing tools I have taken away from Universal Medicine ” observe and not absorb”.

385. Hi Gyl your blog is a good illustration of the importance of connecting to our inner essence, and Esoteric Yoga being one of the ways of doing so.

386. In the modalities as presented by Universal medicine we have the opportunity to feel and observe mountains turning into molehills, indeed into tiny little blips. Resentments, angers, fears, hurts that once consumed us , and seemed so imbedded that they were unassailable as far as inner mountains went, are rendered almost naught by simply developing the inner connection with one’s self. This really has to be experienced to be believed, but yes it is absolutely possible.

     1. I love the mountains into molehills – it is true cjames, there is absolutely no denying it once it is felt in the body. It is true.

387. It is horrible that we sometimes choose to be our own worst critic and judge ourselves so harshly. I know I have done that for a lot my life, which was an old pattern of total disregard of myself. So I asked myself why did I do that and realised I had so many lack of self worth issues that I wasn’t wanting to deal with. Esoteric Yoga and the other modalities that Universal Medicine offer are wonderful ways to support us in being able to free ourselves from those old thought patterns. Then we are free to feel the truth of who we truly are – our true essence of harmony, stillness, love and joy. What a wonderful reflection we are then able to be for others to connect to within their selves.

     1. I agree Deidre, I still catch pockets of lack of self worth in my life, but I now realise that these are a choice. And I choose them to stay small.

388. Thank you Gyl, your blog has much to comment on. It can be very easy to slip up and a thought can enter that is not me. Having moments during the day to ensure that I am with me supports the awareness, and a return to me if I’m just not feeling right. The sneeky ‘self doubt’ thoughts are the classic ones that pull me back from feeling my fullness.

     1. I agree Matthew these are the ones I need to watch for too. And yes creating moments to stop and check in, are a great way to support, rather than allowing ourselves to be run into a momentum we don’t want to be in, both mentally and physically. What I also realised writing this comment is that I have deliberately chosen this run ragged momentum, yes by choice, even through it feels awful, a form of self abuse – to stop me connecting to and feeling amazing.

389. Gyl I love how you share the moment you realise that the anger is not you – not how you truly feel or truly are. It is so often the case that emotions can have us feeling that they are us, when in fact they never are. You have shown the power of Esoteric Yoga and stillness to support us to be able to feel who we truly are and what is not actually us at all.

     1. Stillness is very very powerful.

390. I love the great reminder here Gyl, that how we are with ourselves is reflected in how we are with everyone else… It made me appreciate that I often make the reaction and judgement that I feel from others about them/another, when often in truth it is simply about how I am with myself, and it’s this that I am often wanting to avoid feeling! For me being honest about this is about taking responsibility for how I am with myself – and the more willing I am to do this, the more my relationship with myself grows, as does my relationship with others.

     1. Angela, I couldn’t agree more, ” I often make the reaction and judgement that I feel from others about them/another, when often in truth it is simply about how I am with myself, and it’s this that I am often wanting to avoid feeling! ” And yes, what is absolutely being called for is self -responsibility. If I am totally honest this is something I have avoided for a very long time, but now, as scary as it may be at times (but not really, it’s just asking me to be more and know that life is not just about me, it is about everyone equally), taking responsibility for how I am with myself is amazing, it feels amazing in my body, I feel more confident, committed, present, full and connected to everybody. And with that self responsibility, comes the joy of choosing to be responsible in full, with everything in life, and how that affects everybody.

391. Gyl I love how you’ve expressed something I was so surprised by the other day- that I was indeed feeling lovely when I connected to my body and didn’t run with the story in my head of how I should be feeling frustrated with myself for not getting something perfect that I thought I should have mastered by now!

     And I know I’ve been this impatient and frustrated with others too.

     Your writing has impressed on me the importance in simply choosing the loveliness that I feel and recognising this is truly me. It’s helped me see how thoughts, if I do not feel them first, can run a story that just isn’t true. The story may be real but only because I give it that energy to exist. Wow! So we do have the power to create our realities and the choice to choose what is true.

     1. “see how thoughts, if I do not feel them first, can run a story that just isn’t true. The story may be real but only because I give it that energy to exist.” this is so powerful and true Karin.

392. Gyl I can relate to what you say. I am always amazed at how differently I can feel about myself after committing to a esoteric yoga session – and to totally claim that the difference is a result of just choosing to be with myself, just as I am, and without any judgement. It really exposes the nature of the mind for what it is, simply a receiver and transmitter of what we feed it.

     1. Commitment is a huge thing in life, and one we can often try and run away from, I know I have and still can do at times. It is amazing to commit in full in life, to whatever we are doing in that moment, whether it’s an Esoteric Yoga session, being with kids, walking the dog, cooking dinner, working or chatting with friends.

393. The healing power of Esoteric Yoga never ceases to amaze me. I can so relate to what you have shared here Gyl about feeling that hardness with yourself, and then how that plays out with others – including our closest family. I feel like I’m uncovering more and more layers of this hardness with time, and allowing myself to observe it as it comes up – it’s an amazing process. Thank you Gyl for your power-full sharing once again.

394. Thank you for your lovely sharing Gyl Rae. That self-criticism is so insidious, its like there is 2 separate parts of yourself fighting each other, its so draining. I also have had some amazing life changing moments of clarity during Esoteric Yoga, it’s like shedding a skin of your old life that no longer belongs.

     1. It feels amazing “shedding a skin of your old life that no longer belongs.” I can feel how I have and still do carry around much unseen to the eye, excess baggage. I have this image where I can see me, so light, and full of joy – then around me are all these invisible bags weighing me down, heavy ones over my shoulder, and some just sitting around me, They are full of old belongings, some of them mine full of ridiculous stuff from so long ago, little moments I don’t even really want to hold onto, some of them other peoples stuff. They are not actually part of me. It’s a huge revelation , no wonder at times I can feel so tired.They are just a comfort. It is simply ( a word I nearly avoided there) a choice, and my choice to let them go. I actually do not need them anymore. I feel more light.

395. Gyl this is so relevant to what I am experiencing now. By focusing on what I am not, I was being presented this back in my interactions with others. How simple the little shift in awareness can impact tremendously in the way we interact with ourselves and others.Thank you Gyl, you have explained this beautifully.

     1. Concetta I have been experiencing and working on this too. I was not fully aware, or maybe I was – as I can now see it as the game which I deliberately used to stay small. I focussed ( and still do at times, I am not perfect, constantly learning and have blips) on all the ‘what is not’, the negative stuff, the stuff that is not love, not true – with myself and others. What I am re-learning and joyfully doing is claiming the what is true – all the love, appreciations, confirmations, acceptance of all the amazing things, interactions, revelations, moments, and experiences and with this it just grows more and more solid in my life and my body.

396. Esoteric Yoga is an amazing support to reconnect back to who I truly am.

397. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” Thank you Gyl for these words, even though they are not new to me, I felt to stop and reflect deeply on them, and will take them with me into my day.

398. I have also found Esoteric Yoga such a truly powerful healing morality. The fact that you stop all else and give yourself time to connect and feel your own body is the first step, the second, as you share, is just feeling and being honest about what comes up. So much can be healed, felt and dealt with in a one hour session! Thank you for sharing, Gyl with such honesty and tenderness.

399. Comparison is a poison that is always on offer if we so choose to sip, but it will open the floodgates to anger, resentment, bitterness, misery – the full package. What you have shared here Gyl is gorgeous because the appreciation you allowed yourself to feel, of yourself and of others, is the antidote to this suffering by way of choosing to feel and express the tenderness and exquisite beauty we each are at our deepest core and beyond.

     1. You’re very right Liane – and once we have opened the ‘floodgates to anger, resentment, bitterness and misery’, it can be quite tricky to shut them again.. Comparison really is quite toxic.

400. It is so powerful for ourselves to understand and feel deeply, how we are with ourselves we have been with others. I recently felt the crushing blow of how I really felt when I haven’t let people in, devoid…

401. Thank you Gyl for sharing your reflection. It is very powerful and an eye opener to acknowledge and feel the truth of the statement – “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”, it touches a place in us that only we know and invites very deep honesty. I recently had the similar experience with comparison and realising how controlling and limiting that has been in my life and of my relationship with others. The loving support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine offers so many beads of wisdom for us to reflect on. The choice though, is always ours.

402. That is pretty ground breaking stuff Gyl, if we create and choose to be angry, or sad, or dramatic, any of these different types of emotions that are quite destructive to our own bodies and to those around us, then we ourselves are the cause of the dismay, but also, we are the ones that can simply choose to not be this way, we have all the power, and it is just the way we choose to play it out… so simple -when we’re not caught up in it!

403. Awesome Gyl, I can really relate to what you shared about comparing yourself and assuming others are judging you as much as you judge yourself – I find myself doing it as I walk down the street, critiquing myself and feeling insecure – rather than realising most people are far to busy to pay any attention to me, and that if they are judging me it shouldn’t affect me. It is so true that the way we are with ourselves affects not only the way we are with others but the way we perceive the world.

404. This is beautiful and speaks so clearly of the power of Esoteric Yoga, a great gift to humanity via Serge Benhayon and the amazing Esoteric Yoga team.

     1. I agree Simon – Esoteric Yoga is absolute gold offering the opportunity to re-connect to the infinite and vast stillness within.

405. Great observations and sharing Gyl and I agree, Esoteric Yoga is a wonderful modality, which I too have been absolutely supported by, To connect and feel what is truly going on in the body which is most often the polar opposite to what my mind tries to tell me.
     I love and was stopped by the phrase you wrote “how you are with yourself is how you are with everybody”. Woah, a definite call for more accountability from me today in how I choose to think. I ‘think’ I will choose to feel instead. 🙂

406. Thank you for sharing Gyl, it is amazing how quickly our thoughts can come in and interfere with how we are really feeling. I know when I get frustrated I can run with the same thought throughout the day and just when I think it has gone it will come back in again to disrupt my day. The more aware I am of this happening the quicker I can catch it. Esoteric Yoga is really powerful, I am on a course at the moment and I love the way that what ever comes up for me in the session is then shown to me throughout the week.

407. Thank you Gyl. Such a great reminder that we are not our hurts, that we are most definitely love. I’ve found it’s easy to be fooled and buy into the hurts and get locked out of the love that we are. I’m slowly learning that I can stay with love and let those thoughts come and go without reacting to them. It takes practice.

408. It’s amazing what our minds can run with, in disconnection to our body.. And how profound a change can be made through something as simple as reconnecting with our body and feelings rather than just our emotions.

409. Agree Gyl, Esoteric Yoga is such an amazing modality as it brings, as you share, the body to a place of connection and clarity where we feel the absoluteness of us, and what is possible in this held space of stillness.

410. I really loved reading this, Gyl. I have a very similar pattern as you have described where I spent a good amount of time trying to work out why I feel a certain way. This is such a big distraction that keeps me away from living my true loveliness within. Reading this blog this morning has reminded me that by simply allowing myself to feel the connection I have with my loveliness all the answers I am seeking are already available to me.

411. What really struck me with your sharing Gyl is just how often we do identify with the emotions or thoughts that we feel and can stay stuck in them when we do so; whereas what you have experienced is that beneath the thin veil we are not actually the emotions or thoughts we perceive ourselves to be.

412. I too find the Esoteric Yoga an awesome modality and a great way to connect deeper to my body, to let go of thoughts and surrender to the stillness.

413. Esoteric Yoga has shown me very similar thoughts and feelings Gyl. It is an incredible modality to see how I am thinking, and how thoughts tense up my body. During the yoga it is all so obvious and you get to make the choice to feel your body instead. You get to feel yourself away from all of the thinking, comparison, hardness – get to feel how light, spacious, and expanded you really are. Knowing this is how I really feel I am working on integrating this into my daily life – feel my body rather than stay up in my head thinking, thinking all of the time!

414. Esoteric yoga means to me a deep connection with my body and my self and from that conexión I am able to discern what is true or not. During the last year I have being facing anger and its consequences in my body.
     I discovered that when I am connected with ME there is nothing but Love and joy.
     I discovered that anger, fear and sadness arise when I get lost through sympathy, when I react in the name of love and I do betray my self.
     When this happens there is nothing to do but come back to me.
     Thank you Gyl four your open sharing and for remained me that ” how I am with myself I am with every one else”.

415. Gyl I can so relate to the pattern of being hard on ourselves. I have been steadily catching this when it creeps in and making the choice to bring more understanding and love to myself. As you have so clearly shared, letting go of this judgment of myself has supported me to be more understanding and loving with other people.

416. “I could appreciate and feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am.” Gyl, these words have been my experience during Esoteric Yoga also. No matter what is running in my head or emotions to begin with, the commitment to connecting tenderly with my body brings the gloriousness of truth, joy, stillness, harmony and love back home to me, right there in my body.

417. Thanks Gyl, the awareness of how thoughts of who I think I am, as opposed to the true feeling of who I am, are such an important truth to have at the forefront of my focus. If I can stay with my body, the usual reactions, blaming, suspicions, etc. fall away and I am able to access the true understanding of myself and another.

418. I love your line that the more you try to figure an issue out it only gets magnified. I know this one and will be more aware of this now. Thank you Gyl for share a beautiful experience from your Yoga session.

419. Beautiful Gyl 💗

420. So gorgeous Gyl, love the ‘anger, what anger?’ moment realising the is sooo much more to us that the issues we so often make bigger than they are. I too love esoteric yoga for the opportunity to get really real with the body and to let go and sink into the vast well of stillness we are from. It is a perpetual marker of whatever is there to feel, and it was a huge surprise for me when I first started not being able to deny that the predominant feeling was one of total lovliness from toes to nose. I love too that the actual yoga session is just the beginning, a stop moment that most often deepens the quality which I then take with me into my days. Lovely Blog Gyl.

421. I love this Gyl. It shows that the true self, the deep love and harmony that we feel within, is much grander than the anger or any other emotion we let in. So next time I feel annoyed, angry, sad or the likes I will ask myself: what anger? I love it!

422. Thank you Gyl for sharing your experience of this absolutely beautiful modality (you can tell I’m a fan!). Everytime I have had an Esoteric Yoga session I am left feeling so beautiful from the inside out that I cannot help but fall in love with who I am.

423. Esoteric Yoga is a very powerful healing modality. Thank you for sharing this with us Gyl

424. Hi Gyl, I totally relate to what you said about going into comparison in online yoga. I have done that too. It shows just how much power and control I will give my mind if I will allow it to compare myself to how I IMAGINE other people are doing their yoga, and to find myself lacking. Of course, when all of this is going on I am missing the whole point of yoga; connection! Its crazy, and as I write this I see it for the trick that it is, a trick to keep me from that connection that I had chosen by committing to a yoga session in the first place.

425. Lovely said Gyl, this is very awesome to feel the spaciousness inside and inline with the body. This connection feels so beautiful and is our marker for who we really are.

426. Gyl, so beautiful thank you. The power of esoteric yoga is amazing and also incredibly revealing. At times it’s difficult to feel and accept what is shown but so great to see because by doing so we have an opportunity to let it go and feel more of who we truly are.

427. Thank you Gyl for sharing your awareness through this blog , reading your blog this morning allowed me to stop and feel where I was at , feel what I was holding onto and release and surrender to the connection and stillness I love. Thank you.

428. Thank you Gyl, a great sharing about your Esoteric Yoga session and I feel the tenderness and grace in your surrendering to yourself. “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. I know this to be true and yet sometimes I do not want to feel this and admit to myself that I am not only hurting myself but everyone. A responsibility that is always there because we are one.

429. Awesome blog Gyl. It is so true that when we let ourselves be. there is none of the emotions like you shared: “There was no anger, no judgment, no hardness, blame or comparison, just a feeling of absolute deep contentment, joy, connection and space; I could appreciate and feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am.” I find this too, although it is sometimes not so easy to stay that connected at times.What helps me at those moments is being aware of my posture and changing it a little, this support me with feeling my absolute beauty and stillness.

430. Gyl, thank you for your gorgeous sharing, esoteric yoga is truly an amazing modality which so simply brings us back to our true selves.

431. Hello Gyl, it’s great that you have brought some awareness to our thoughts as opposed to how we are actually feeling. I can relate to the hardness I have on myself that then goes out to others. I can be ‘hard’ like this and it is usually a way for me to avoid feeling something. The thoughts are usually the same, just an avoidance or a game of not feeling. Thank you for this blog as it is something that I needed to hear this morning, and anytime is a good time to ‘watch’ our thoughts.

432. Thank you for sharing this honest and beautifully inspiring account of your Esoteric Yoga practise. To have the tools such as is Esoteric Yoga to connect to our bodies at this deep level is a Gods send. I know for me too, the stillness contacted through Esoteric Yoga and all that that connection reveals for me about how my body is actually feeling, brings an awareness with it like no other. To carry this into the rest of my day is then reflected by how I move and interact in it.

433. The other thing that came to me on reading your blog Gyl is that when we choose to feel from our hearts instead of think from our heads, there is so much support available to us. Our innate nature is love, and everything in the universe is so beautifully designed to support us humans to remember this and make this our everyday.

434. Great awareness Gyl, that the thoughts that are not us are magnified when we try to figure things out from our heads. Making the choice to instead turn our attention inwards to our heart allows our body to feel and speak the truth of who we really are.

435. Thanks for sharing this Gyl, it really is amazing what you have presented here. So often we can get caught up in, or distracted by, things like anger, comparison, etc… but it isn’t who we truly are. I love how you were able to connect to your tenderness and joy and let all of the other stuff go, it’s very inspiring.

436. Gyl that was so lovely to read, the power and healing of your words is spectacular. I love the last line – I could appreciate and feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am. I have been re-claiming my purity and making it my foundation and building my life from there. Very much looking forward to this next stage of unfoldment. Serge Benhayon what you have given back to humanity will forever unfold in loveliness, and you will go down in history as one of the greatest men of our times. Bringing back to humanity the qualities and teachings of heaven for all equally, and to choose when they are ready. Purity in action.

437. I just had this: ah yes, so true – moment, although I have heard and knew that all before! When we are harsh with ourself, of course we are the same way to others. Sometimes these patterns feel and are so familiar that I don´t really realize how harsh I was in a moment for example, no matter to myself or to someone else. Your blog made me now even more aware of how important I am with me. Thank you!

438. Thank you Gyl, your blog is a great reminder that we are not our emotions and or thoughts no matter how real they might feel. To consitently check in with our bodies and honour what we feel, will help us to connect to the stillness in ourselves. This will give us an opportunity to understand that the thoughts that fuel the emotions are ‘noice’ that is there to disturb us from being who we truly are.

439. What a brilliant blog Gyl, a lovely reminder that we are not our emotions, and how we doggedly hold onto them believing that our emotions are us, when in fact they’re not. We hold onto them in our bodies making us feel tense and anxious, and this can contribute to making us sick. I have had similar experiences in an esoteric yoga class, and in re-connecting to that stillness within my body in a Chris James Workshop, during an esoteric healing session, or first thing in the morning before I get out of bed. I have connected to something wonderful, expansive, light and powerful at the same time. I began to ask myself, if I can feel like this some of the time, why can’t I feel like this all of the time? Emotions do come up, it is a natural part of healing, but why do we hold onto them when it is so simple to acknowledge them and let them go and not indulge in something that does not truly serve us or has any place in our bodies. And it was a revelation to me, that how we are with ourselves is how we are with everyone else, no more blaming others. Once I realised this I began to take responsibility for my own state of being, and started to let go of the hardness and protection I had built around myself. Esoteric yoga classes are an amazing way to re-connect to our bodies, and it is so simple, you just have to allow yourself to feel the delicateness that lies beneath the surface.

440. Hi Gyl. It is amazing that when we get out of our heads and actually feel our bodies that we can feel our true connection to self. It seems that we are so used to being in our heads and expressing from those thoughts – usually negative ones about ourselves. What a gift Esoteric Yoga is for us.

     1. I agree Anne, a heaven sent gift. I have practised yoga for many years and also trained as a teacher. But every time, even from the beginning, although I got hooked in, something didn’t feel right in my body, we were missing something huge. For me I always had such strong feelings in my body that yoga was about union, and God, and this was not part of what I practised and taught. There was too much focused on the movement and the outside postures and for me it took me a while to honour what I felt and actually say no I am not teaching or practising this anymore. When I went to my first Esoteric Yoga session, I knew this was it. This was the stillness, union and connection with God, which I felt inside of me, in my body – I had always been looking for, and knew yoga to be.

        1. Gyl what you have written is another amazing example of your body telling you what is okay for it. Your body knew that the more “contemporary” yoga was not the real deal. Our bodies are amazing treasures and they are communicating with us all the time!

441. Thank you Gyl, it is very supporting to hear and get back to feeling how I truly am inside. And be reminded that this is how I can be every day. Great blog!

     1. Thank you “this is how I can be every day” so true, it doesn’t just have to be in moments. Isn’t it amazing how we can call in tricks to play when we are feeling amazing, such as ‘oh this won’t last’ etc. as a way to bring us down and stop us living in our glory.

        1. What I also felt to add, was I can feel how clearly these thoughts do not come from me. It’s almost like there is another place, outside of me, feeding us these thoughts to keep us small, saying here have more negative thoughts, believe this, we don’t want you to know how amazing you are. These thoughts are definitely not impulsed by the love I feel in my body.

442. This is so beautiful and inspiring Gyl. I love how you were able to recognise all the things that were not you and come to a deep appreciation of the truth of who you really are. Thank you for sharing in such a relatable way.

443. Just beautiful Gyl, your realisation really touched me – how we treat ourselves is how we treat another. And I know this to be true and now can see of course I get on more with others as I now have more time for me.

444. Wow, the healing power of yoga just oozes from you and your blog Gyl, thank you. So much tenderness and surrender – It feels lovely!

445. What a great insight Gyl that we are simply not anger (or any other emotion) and if we let it go our beauty can be easily accessed as it is always waiting beneath. I could feel the absolute connection you felt to your stillness reading this, it shone off the page as a beautiful reminder to be that and let nothing else get in the way. I love Esoteric Yoga, it is exquisite and quite extraordinary in what it reveals.

446. Gorgeous Gyl. I really relate to your blog.. Generally I hold myself in quite a lot of hardness, and can very easily become annoyed/angry at myself, and the choices I make. My self worth is also very up and down, and reading the line – “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” – really hit home, as I realise that if I’m ever angry or frustrated with myself, I then act that way with other people too. Thank you for sharing exactly what I needed to hear today!

447. I loved reading your story – My experience with Esoteric Yoga was also deeply reconnecting what I appreciated was the chance to be still and just to simply observe rather than fix or change or analyse my body.

448. Beautifully expressed and shared Gyl. Esoteric Yoga is so amazing, as it helps us to connect back to ourselves and to how amazing we all truly are.

449. There so much more to us then we think and believe.

450. Beautiful blog Gyl, I too am a big fan of Esoteric Yoga because I also, find it is so supportive of deeply connecting with me. Like you I find I have amazing insights and revelations that come straight from my body in the yoga sessions. Your shared insights are profound, how freeing to realise from the body that we are never the emotion we are running with!

451. Stunning Gyl!! This is the perfect blog to read after a massive day at the office – I love the reminder of the importance to connect to your body and actually connect to how you are feeling – rather than go with whatever thought or reaction pops into your head. And the line “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” is an absolute game-changer! Thank you so much for sharing.

452. ‘I could appreciate and feel how lovely, sweet, tender and pure I am.’ – could you imagine a world when we all actually felt this for ourselves? Wowee…that would be pretty grand.

453. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”
     This I will ponder on as I felt it deeply as I read it Gyl. Thank you for sharing.

454. I have had the same experience of ‘thinking’ I know how I feel and being surprised when
     I check in with how I really feel. The thinking version is usually limited, negative and keeps me stuck in it. Whereas the true feeling, is spacious, open and leads to being still. Esoteric Yoga is a gift from heaven, an antidote to the craziness, busyness and dishonesty we live in the these days.

     1. Absolutely Fiona, when I ‘think’ it’s quite often intense, hard, judgemental etc and this is the same feeling that is expressed in my body, the hardness, protection and tension – whereas even in a split second if I ‘feel’ – everything changes – there is an openness, so much joy, space, a beautiful stillness, knowing, lightness, playfulness and love of life, people and me and this is felt and expressed through every single cell of my body. Just goes to show how there can be two different energies running the show. And it is our choice to what one we choose. Before Universal Medicine I just accepted my emotions as being me, that’s how we were. as I was not aware of this. It has been an absolute blessing to have this reawakened and come back to the freedom of knowing and feeling the truth, and knowing I can choose a different way, always. It is huge.

455. Gyl, what you came to in the Esoteric Yoga session is totally and utterly amazing! Life changing. Something so simple as just letting you feel you, can bring such monumental benefit to our lives. We are so blessed.

     1. Indeed Lisa we are so blessed, constantly. It is with thanks to Serge Benhayon that I have and am coming to realise this in every single moment.

456. I remember Gyl when I had the realisation that how I was with myself was how I was being with others, it was a real wake up. At the time I thought I was a very loving person with others but if I was being that hard on myself how could the way I was being with others truly loving? Years ago I would have thought being loving with myself was rather self indulgent, I now know it is quite the opposite. I realise I have a responsibility to be self loving and self honouring as this is what others receive from me… or not.
     Thank you for sharing your love of Esoteric Yoga; it is one of my great loves also.

457. Thanks Gyl. A beautiful story of using esoteric yoga to connect to yourself to feel and appreciate how lovely you are.

     1. Thank you Lee, I can feel that confirmation in your comment.

458. You’ve written this with such tenderness Gyl. It’s a great awareness to have to know that how we are with ourselves is how we are with others, and vice versa. When we are being critical and judgemental of other people we just need to stop and feel how we are with ourselves – often we are harder on ourselves but just don’t stop to feel it, hence the projection onto other people.

459. I love the reflection on this blog about how we are with ourselves is how we are we others I can feel at times how hard on others I am and yet it makes sense now because I am often my own worst critic.

460. What an absolutely gorgeous sharing Gyl. Thank you 🌷

461. Thank you Gyl for sharing. Don’t you love the Esoteric Yoga! What a time one has settling into their body. I always learn so much about myself and how I have been leading up to the yoga as every muscle tells a story.

462. This was absolutely beautiful to read Gyl, it is a revelation to know that those emotions that come up in our bodies are actually not what we truly feel at all. It was confronting to be reminded of the fact that we are the same with everyone else as we are with ourselves as I know how hard and cruel I can be towards myself and I can feel that no matter how hard I try to disguise it it this always affects others.

     The other day I took a photo of someone and screwed my face up at the screen when I could see I had not focussed the shot properly, the person I was photographing then became self conscious as in their world I was screwing my face up at a picture of them! A great reminder that we must be loving with ourselves if we want others to feel loved and safe in our presence.

463. Thanks for this simple blog that certainly delivered a LOT! I can relate to so much of what you shared – especially “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” – I have been realising the same things Gyl Rae. Beautiful to read your expression of what I have been feeling. Thank you.

464. Beautiful Gyl, I cried when reading this! how silly is it to compare ourselves to everyone else? when we do that we are focusing on moving in a way that we think should be right, and we look outside of ourselves towards others and compare ourselves. But this doesnt really help us to connect with us. And what an amazing realisation, “how we are with ouselves is how we are with everyone else” that has left me feeling deeply reflective and the words are very true!

465. It’s beautiful what you feel when you allow yourself to just be you-without all those thoughts coming through.

466. I used to go to Yogalates because I was angry – it was, so I thought, the only way I could control it in my body. What I didn’t know then was the yoga was actually just pushing it back down or around and in fact I was not releasing the anger at all. How awesome to hear your story Gyl of how when you felt the anger during Esoteric Yoga you were able to identify that it was not really coming from your body and that it was not you at all! That is an instant release – and you didn’t even have to do anything except just feel ! Gorgeous story, many thanks.

467. Such a lovey piece of writing Gyl, I am just coming to realise how hard on myself I am too. It shows by the reflection I am getting from other people as you say, the way we have relationships with others is how we treat outrselves!

468. Wow. Gyl. Thank you very much for sharing your beautiful moment of joy. It was very healing to feel how you reflected back at yourself from a place of love and stillness.

469. “Even though it was an online programme and I was lying in a room on my own, I still compared myself to others ” – Gyl, I completely agree. Once I noticed I was judging and comparing in such an insane way, I realised that it was all in me and that it was all me doing it.

     That was really nice because – if it is all me who is doing it – then I can stop it, too!

470. Amazing, I love that all of this; the recognition, insight, understanding, humbleness, confirmation and clearing came from simply becoming still and allowing an inner connection to yourself. Esoteric Yoga is a truly powerful healing modality.

471. Dear Gyl,
     I can completely relate to everything that you have presented here. I too spent much of my life in judgement and critique of myself and of course others. I like you realised what I was doing when I too could feel in my body the absolute harm of this way of being. Since then I have been addressing this and nominating it each and every time that it appears in my days. Just today I have felt myself take this love for myself and others to a deeper level. I found myself falling into the old way of constantly checking on how I was, going into judgement very quickly when I felt something that was not the loveliness that I know myself to be. I realised though that all of this was coming from outside of myself. Having this realisation allowed me to come back to myself and to hold my body dearly and allow my love to come from the inside out. This was so super powerful, especially when in the company of others. I could feel them, but it was a simple yep thats what I feel, while staying very lovingly with my body.

472. It can be so easy to feel anger or sadness or whatever the emotion is and allow it to be all consuming that we think that is who we are. When in truth we are not those emotions at all. That’s the absolute blessing of Esoteric Yoga that we can connect to the treasures that we truly are and realise that the emotional stuff is there to feel, but no longer owns us. A perfect article for me to read today. Thank you Gyl.

473. What you describe here just feels so real and so powerful – to connect with the body in such a way that allows you to truly feel how you actually are. You really take me there in this article, thanks Gyl.

474. I love the space and connection that Esoteric Yoga offers us. The opportunity to really stop and feel what is there for us to feel and within that connection I find there is the opportunity for what is not us, such as the anger or frustration to dissolve. I love that this modality offers us the opportunity to take healing into our own hands. It’s simplicity is profound asking us to pause and deeply connect with our bodies.

475. Gyl that was an awesome presentation of the simplicity and power of esoteric yoga, thank you!

476. To paraphrase slightly, “how we are with ourselves is how we are with everyone else”, is a gem and goes hand in hand with the fact that what comes towards us is what we have put out, generally. Both statements ask us to take responsibility on a much deeper level than we might have ever thought possible.

477. Beautiful sharing Gyl. I can totally relate to feeling a certain way and the to discover that it is only really a superficial feeling in the surface as below that is the beauty, love, tenderness and stillness of who I truly am.

478. Hi Gyl, how our thoughts and selfcritique can block us from feeling! Often I wake up and have negative or depressive thoughts, but when I give myself time to feel, they are not based on any reality. It is an age old pattern repeating itself in my head. It takes a constant focus on my body and a reality check to know those thoughts are not mine and not true and to appreciate where I am now. Which is actually a much better place then my head wants to let me believe….

479. Thanks Gyl, a great insight into the fact we are not actually our emotions… and that there is an essence to us that is untouched regardless of how messed up or dominated by these emotions we might feel. Your experience is testimony to the power of Esoteric Yoga in developing a deeper relationship with yourself.

480. Gyl, much of what you share in your article, very much relates to how I live my life. I too cried when I read ” how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” this stopped me in my tracks, and I could feel the truth of this in my body. Thank you Gyl, you have shared much for me to ponder on

481. ‘it was just such a blessing to feel this in my body with tenderness and grace, and not beating myself up and claiming I did not want to be this way’

     Thank you Gyl for writing so openly about the old patterns of self criticism, judgement and comparison which are there to hijack the love and joy.

     1. They so are – I love those moments where I stop and say no, and feel my body – and what I feel is absolute love and joy. Even today when I felt a little bit off, I allowed myself to feel my body and not my thoughts, and what I felt was how lovely and tender I am, I could actually feel love through my whole body and my feet when I walked.

        1. It is very empowering to stop the momentum isn’t it instead of running with it. The body must really appreciate these changes we are making for it. It is still interesting how I choose to still go along with the overwhelm etc. for as long as I do though. I’m enjoying tipping the scales to more time spent re-connecting and less time running with it.

     2. Yes your honesty is very refreshing Gyl and very true; we so quickly assume the role of critic, whether it be of ourselves or others. How amazing to eventually settle in a space of stillness and connection that silenced the constant dialogue. The joy and contentment is quite palpable from your writing, thank you for sharing your amazing moments.

482. Wow. Thank you Gyl for the reminder that all those emotions, comparisons, tension and hardness is not me. I can really relate to the situations of when my mind tells me what I feel, rather than what I actually feel, again another reminder to continue asking my body how it actually feels over the ‘I know everything that is going on, don’t question it’ thoughts.

     1. I know that well Leigh, as soon as I realise my feeling are coming from my head ( which is not true) I stop and say, no – what do I really feel in my body. And more often than not these are completely different. My body always being true.

        1. I do the exact same thing and every time I do I am surprised at just how starkly different my body feels when compared to the mind that is so sure of itself allegedly. So stark that at times it seems like the panic stations are going off upstairs and my body doesn’t have any of that happening, just confused as to what the drama is all about.

483. A gorgeous and tender blog where I could feel your ‘tenderness and grace’ as you accepted all that your body was telling you. It is an honour to share your yoga session, Gyl.

     1. Thank you Susan.

484. Thank you Gyl. This shows that anger is not who we are and that deep within we are all lovely, sweet, tender and pure,

     1. I agree 🙂 And that goes for everyone in the world.

485. I have to found esoteric yoga to be an amazing tool in deeply connecting to myself. I have recently started doing my own yoga sessions and have spent a lot of time simply feeling and allowing what is there to be felt. And like you Gyl with this amazing modality I have been able to feel whatever is there to be felt without judgment and a harshness. I have noticed when feeling me in this way it is easy to let go of all the surface emotions, anxiety and hardness and drop into me, it is truly exquisite to let go in this way. The word Yoga has many branches in todays society but none come close to the truth that is presented with Esoteric Yoga. All other yoga’s have been formed by a bastardisation of past forms of yoga. These forms of yoga are only fragments of the true meaning of yoga hence totally false. Old forms of yoga even if true for mans healing in the time they were introduced are no longer current for humanity’s healing hence they can be quite retarding.

486. Beautiful realisation Gyl. When we let go of all our ‘stuff’ we are able to feel “What I was left with was the stillness and joy as I could feel the truth of who I really am”.

487. This is so beautiful to read and feel the truth of all you say and how hard we are on ourselves and hence everyone else too. The joy of Esoteric Yoga in supporting one to feel ourselves truly is amazing and so powerful as is the contentment and beauty within to deeply feel and appreciate consistently as who we are in purity and tenderness.Thank you Gyl for this sharing so beautifully.

     1. “appreciate consistently as who we are in purity and tenderness.” this is beautiful Tricia. Tenderness just steps out in this, I love the fact then when we read comments or blogs there is always so much offered to us from them, to deepen our own understanding and healing.

488. Thank you Gyl for sharing this experience – I find that it is easy to carry surface reactions that are not truly who we are – but if we simply allow the stop in our day to feel whats going on – I can see what is not me – and return to who I am first.
     If I don’t stop and acknowledge – I carry a weight of emotions with me which just drains me and others around me. I feel that is part of my responsibility – checking in with where I am all the time.

489. “How you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else”. This is so beautiful – and true – Gyl. Thank you for sharing. It touched a deep place within me.

     1. This was huge for me, tears rolled down my face as it hurt to feel how I have treated people at times, and the hardness and judgement I can hold myself in. But at the same time an absolute healing and blessing to feel as I now know this truth, and the fact the more loving and tender I am with myself I naturally am with everybody else.

490. Gyl, I can relate to what you’re saying with a lovely appreciation. Yoga is something I don’t do regularly. However when I do it’s a lovely way to just feel back into your body and feel how much stuff there is in the void. It is a beautiful teaching enabling one to feel back into the body and move that busy-ness out of the head.

     1. Yes I agree Matt – to attend an esoteric yoga session is such a joy. As you mention it is really beautiful to feel back into your body. When I come away from this session the lightness returns and the busy head is much more still. I would prescribe this awesome healing modality as a daily medicine for everyone.

     2. I don’t do yoga regularly either, but I find that the 15 minutes or so in the evenings when I’m lying in bed ready to sleep can have a similar effect that esoteric yoga has on the body, i.e. it allows me to reflect on how I truly feel.

491. Gyl, I’m sure that those profound words: “how you are with yourself is how you are with everyone else” will be commented on by many people who read this article. They have certainly had an affect on me…in a lovely way.

     Esoteric yoga is de-light-full. I have found that every experience is different, depending on how I feel at the time. The constant is the clarity and sense of freedom I feel at the end of a session. To cap it off, I find I can use the techniques of Esoteric Yoga throughout the day to reconnect to my body and Soul, whether sitting, standing, walking or even typing…as I am now. It’s beautiful.

492. This is amazing as just this morning I was lying in bed feeling anxious about the day ahead, and with this feeling I felt tired and unwilling to actually get out of bed, like my body was made of lead. When I admitted to myself that this is how my body felt and I instead chose to let go of the tension I was holding, my body felt more open and as if by magic I had all the energy required to get up and to be committed to the tasks of the day. It is incredible what we can choose that affects our entire way of being in the world. Thank you Gyl for sharing.

     1. Thank you Shami I can relate as I too was feeling anxious this morning and allowed that to take over initially and colour my start to the morning. Once I was able to recognise the anxiety was not me it lifted but it is great to be reminded again that we can choose at any moment how we are in the world.

     2. Yes it is Shami, incredible amazing that we can actually choose our entire way of being in the world. How awesome is that!

     3. I agree with you Shami, it is amazing how we can choose our entire way of being in the world. And that choice can just be coming from the head. But if we connect back with ourselves, wow, what a different choice we have. I can relate to what you say about how you can wake up feeling anxious, and how that can cloud your expectations for the day ahead. But that is really because we are in the head, looking at what has to be done, rather than just being with ourselves and let the things unfold as they should do. It all gets done so smoothly then.

     4. Hi Shami, I too have had moments like this. It’s amazing just to call that tension out and also I find saying I know this is not me. I know I am light, playful, sweet and loving. Isn’t it amazing how quickly your energy can change, and can be clearly felt in your body,

493. Wow Gyl this explodes the myth that I am my anger or whatever emotion it might be. To truly feel the love inside and know the anger isn’t there is beautiful. The Esoteric Yoga is an amazing way to re-connect with the inner truth of who you are. Great blog and a great reminder to stop and feel what is going on in any given moment rather than continuing in the momentum of any emotion we may feel is there.

     1. Thank you Judy, I so agree – it has been an amazing tool and modality to support me feeling the true me, and one I can use throughout the day, whether that’s sitting at my desk, lying in bed, or driving the car – to be able to check in with my whole body and how I really feel within, and not the thoughts that are coming into my head.

     2. I agree with what you share here Judy, that when we feel the love that we are we see that we are not our emotions. It is a truly an awesome blog Gyl about the deep connection in ourselves that can be supported with esoteric yoga.

     3. When I am stuck in an emotion it can feel like that is all there is, but as you say Judy… our essence is so much more and that is the foundation of who we are, and that is what we can return to, easily, when we take a moment to reconnect to ourselves.

     4. “to stop and feel” such a powerful and simple statement and action, one that will not lead us astray.

494. This is a super testament to the true beauty and worth of Esoteric Yoga Gyl. It’s a great sharing and shows how this simple way of connecting with our body can bring wonderful insights and revelations.

     1. Absolutely Heather, I love the simplicity of Esoteric Yoga, but also all of what Universal Medicine presents.

     2. I agree Heather – a great testament to Esoteric Yoga.

     3. I agree Heather, it really exposes the discrepancy that we allow between what our heads think and what our bodies feel – its like we take on the not-truth (external) to override the true truth (internal).

     4. Yes, I agree Heather, a great testament to Esoteric Yoga. It is stunning and so simple I find it is when I connect and allow myself to feel my body, how emotions of judgment, whether about myself, others or my life, become ‘outside’ of me and do no longer have a hold on me.

     5. Yes well said Heather. I have never come across such a gentle and powerful yoga practice in my life, a practice that seems so simple, yet can be the most challenging thing in the world to do, sit and feel every bit of your body. And as Gyl demonstrates, when you do you can discover all sorts of things about yourself that you thought you never knew, like finding out that the anger you were feeling actually wasn’t true. The power of this approach has enabled me to make huge shifts in the way I live each day, being able to feel my body helped me recognise and acknowledge the true impact of many of my daily choices. Hence changing my choices has changed how my body feels and how much more time I want to spend feeling and being with it!

     6. “simple way of connecting with our body can bring wonderful insights and revelations.” absolute truth and cuts out all the complexities.

495. What a gorgeous read Gyl, I can relate to every part you shared. Laughing at comparing myself to others online – crazy! Beautiful the real knowing that taking this comparison and judgement to others is really not what we are wanting for ourselves or others. Esoteric yoga is such a wonderful modality.

496. Thanks for your sharing Gyl, I can relate and am more aware these days of how my mind can try to tell me the opposite of what I am actually feeling…. like I am hungry, when really I am not hungry at all, I am just bored or want something to distract myself with.

     1. Totally Rosie. The mind is a big trickster and can take down our body unsupportive and unloving path. . . but when we stop to truly listen to the body our choices are then in honouring what our body needs eg. What food, when it needs to rests or sleep, when it needs some exercise etc.

     2. My mind tells me I am hungry all of the time and it is definitely to distract me from being al of me.

     3. Absolutely Rosie, I so agree – it’s amazing to now have the freedom to be able to feel the difference between a true feeling and a thought – these can be very very different.

     4. So know this one Rosie. The endless foray and trickery of the spirit. Still gets me from time to time but getting less and less.

        1. I feel that sometimes Simone, when my spirit led mind ‘takes me off’ in a meditation, yoga session, or just a daily activity where I lose awareness of what I am doing. It is getting less and less, work in progress, and the support of Universal Medicine through other students, therapists, blogs and comments like these is enormous.

     5. Yes, I agree Rosie. The mind and the body can have very different things going on, and so I too am learning to listen quietly and intently to what my body is telling. The Esoteric Yoga sessions have really supported me with that.

        1. Thank you Gyl, Rosie and Janet, I agree when listening to our body we get a different message. Esoteric Yoga as presented by Serge Benhayon have inspired many to feel the stillness in our body first and any thing less than stillness is felt as not being the true me!

        2. Me too! What is fascinating to observe is how thoughts can come in seemingly from nowhere to completely distract me from what I am doing and then minutes, hours or even days later I find myself somewhere, or doing something I would not have dreamt of doing. Taking time to connect to myself helps me see where these thoughts come in and so I can arrest the energy instead of allowing it to lead me where ever it wants to.

     6. I can relate to that Rosie, my mind telling me I’m hungry when, if I check in with my body, I am not hungry at all.

497. Thank you for sharing Gyl. I have also found Esoteric Yoga to be extremely supportive in helping me re-connect back to my body and how I am feeling. What is great is that you had been running with anger but then when you stopped, re-connected back, the anger had dissipated. What it shows to me, and confirms, is how much we can change our thoughts and outlook by simply choosing the energy we are allowing to run our bodies. I know when I get angry or frustrated almost anything is possible (in a scary sense), and I can choose to run with it, let the thoughts and energy take over, or I can say hang on, that is not me and come back to me. I can then start to see what happened more clearly and understand why that happened. It is usually from a mis-understanding and then I am back with myself no longer hell-bent on what ever had come up. It still amazes how the easily we can change our thoughts.

     1. Exactly James , it is s simple as that ” I can say hang on, that is not me and come back to me. ” and I have Universal Medicine to thank for that. Before this I just accepted emotions and thought they were me. This is so far from the truth and I can feel when I am emotional there is another energy running me – one that is not love.

        1. Knowing that we are always governed by one of 2 energies whether or not we like to admit this fact, as presented by Universal Medicine, brings a far greater understanding to life and helps explain a lot of what is going on in the world and what I have done this life. I can either allow my life to be controlled or I can choose to take control of my life, at least now I have the very conscious choice.

     2. So true James, ‘it is amazing how easily we can change our thoughts’. All it takes is a different choice in the next moment. Yet until we are in touch with our bodies we lack this realisation and run with the ill thoughts, which then take over. Esoteric Yoga is as you say, ‘extremely supportive’ in helping us to re-connect back to our bodies and to how we feel. Until I met Serge Benhayon and started to attend his presentations, I had never considered listening to my body let alone re-connecting to it. Thank you Serge and the Universal Medicine practitioners for showing that there is another way.

        1. Anne, I have always had very loud and often extremely clear message from my body but I have not allowed myself to fully listen to them because of the changes I would have to make if I did, it was like I was empowered on one hand but on the other hand had seemingly so much to let go off. A great example is when I would drink in my teenage years – I would feel awful yet I wanted to be to with friends – so it was a balancing act instead of simply saying this does not feel right to my body, surely I can do something else than does not exhaust me and make me sick!!!

     3. Very clearly put James, thank you. I completely agree, we can very easily get caught up in a thought or emotion – i.e. anger, sadness, reaction or self criticism, and run with it, allowing it to take over our mind and body so to speak. We don’t normally have tools or techniques in life to recognise that, hang on I am not angry, I am simply a person who feels andy and choose to be angry, and I can choose differently. It leaves us far less at the mercy of our emotions and reactions and brings control over our choices and lives.

     4. I love this “everything that seemed so complicated is simple again.” Simplicity I am learning, is definitely the key to an amazing and joyful life.

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