Greetings all,
I was reading a blog that was commenting on an article about how we are not the same person entitled, You Won't Stay the Same. The blog that directed me to this is a dating/relationship advice blog that I regularly read. Basically when we look back on our lives, we don't know as much as we think we do until we gain more experience. For example, I can't relate to who I was when I was 28. This person is different from who I am now, not as mature and still learning. This was one of the subjects that I've been mulling over for some time, namely because it seems like we are always changing. I feel I've changed a lot due to my kundalini yoga and meditation practice and I have wondered how can I ever find the right person if I am always changing?
Since I've been doing KY for about 5 years, I've really grown and I was leaving a few responses on the blog about my own KY experience and then I realized that it's not so much we change, but what changes is our perception. There is a self that never changes and I think what confused me was I was thinking because my perceptions are changing, it means I am but that's not the reality. It's just my perceptions are changing. I think my current Bound Lotus practice might have had something to do with this insight but it is also something I heard in Sat Nam Rasayan workshops and BL is using the same principles of SNR so that made me feel really enlightened today. SNR talks about how we have to accept all perceptions and that none is better then another. We are always reacting rather then observing our reactions and responding from a neutral place.
This whole insight made my day. It's not me that is changing. It's just my perceptions. I'm still the same person but it's my perceptions that are changing, evolving and being refined. It's a grounding, centered thought.
