Remember Who You Are
Dear Sister,
I hope this email finds you in good spirits. I wish you could be here with the group of women who are on retreat with me this week in Guanajuato!
I’m writing to you during a break in our schedule because I wanted to take a moment to share a tiny glimpse of the transformative experiences we're sharing during our time together.
Today has been a day of deep purification and profound release. We started the day with an invigorating combination of dance and yoga, and now we’re about to participate in a sacred sweat lodge ceremony. This ancient practice is a deeply spiritual and cleansing ritual that allows us to connect with our inner selves, release what no longer serves us, and emerge renewed and transformed.
I came across a poem that beautifully set the tone for our day, and I wanted to share it with you, as its words hold the power to open your heart and mind to infinite possibilities, regardless of where you find yourself.
Remember Who You Really Are
You are not what you do. You are not what you don’t do.
You are not the job title. You are not a labeled societal sub group.
You are not your personality;
You are not a happy person, a depressed person or an angry person.
You are not a definition of your own qualities.
Who are you?
You are not who your mother says you are.
You are not who your best friend says you are.
You are not your own descriptions of yourself.
Drop all the labels, titles, designations, descriptions, accomplishments and even failures.
Below the labels, beneath the layers, on the most subtle level…
What do you feel?
What is left?
What is there?
Who are you?
If you are not what you do,
If you are not what others say you are,
If you are not a set of descriptions,
Who are you?
Lets move a little deeper.
You are not defined or confined by the limits of your physical body.
You are not your beating heart, you are not your breath.
You are not your mind, emotions or thoughts.
If you are not all these “things”…
Who are you?
A better question may be not who are you, but what are you?
Take a deep breath into every cell of your being. As you exhale release all the labels, all the descriptors, titles, both other and self created. Bask in this space.
What are you?
Close your eyes and feel your way to it. Don’t define it, don’t put it into words, but feel it completely.
Do you feel a sense of spaciousness, of limitlessness, of infinite potential?
If you are not all or any of these things, if you can not be defined or put into words, but only felt.
What are you?
Remember who, or better yet, what you really are.
Remember your potential, remember your limitless possibility.
Remember that you can not be defined, by self or other.
Remember what you are, where you come from and why you’re here.
Remember your knowingness, your awareness, remember your truth.
What are you?
You are the awareness of all these things.
You are embedded deep within yet extend far beyond.
You are the driving force of all these things.
You are both the wave and the ocean.
You are both the dance and the dancer.
You are both the creator and the container.
You are me as I am you.
~ Alexa Torontow
Wishing you a week filled with inspiration, self-discovery, and the realization of your own infinite possibilities.
With warmth and gratitude,
Deb
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