And More On Allowing...
Sometime the more you "try" the more ground you lose. I find it often is better to just allow. This however is a lot harder than it sounds. That old ego and the monkey mind can get in the way and cause all kinds of mischief. In today's kundalini kriya which focused on breath and endurance, I was challenged to sustain my arms in all kinds of constantly moving poses. I didn't think that I could keep going, and at those points I would chant the kundalini mantra which is "I am truth" or "truth is my identity", and I would find myself going deeper, reaching for more understanding, and indeed, finding my own truth. It was in those moments of struggle that I could really see that part of my path was giving up that struggle and just allowing the sensations to take me over. This involves the sort of surrender that the mind resists. It is when we are in our truer moments, our points of struggle that who we really are is revealed. And it is there that we learn not only who we are but who we really want to be.
