The world of shoulds is an illusion!

Do you ever find yourself living in a world of "shoulds"? "I should be this kind of mother/wife/daughter. I should've said this or done that." ..ect? And we often put "shoulds" onto others. - "She should do it this way." We hold on to stories about the nature of reality that are not true to reality! In yoga, we call this Anava mala. which means: An impurity of individuality. It is a contracted state, centered on the "wrong view." It motivates from a place of lack (or shoulds). Downloaded from somewhere else.

The more time we spend trying to be who somebody told us to be, the less time we are manifesting our fullest potential.... It's a form of resistance.

Where are you still holding to these downloads? We all have our stories. Often when we let go of the story, the energy (or emotional intensity) deflates.

The right view is that each one of us in this very moment is divine, whole and complete. You can allow space for an unfolding of that self awareness, if you choose. I invite you to become more aware of yourself, the next time you are feeling/thinking from a place of lack (or shoulds). Stop resisting, sit with the emotion. Ask "Is this true?". Then allow there to be a falling away of those parts that are not who you are. The lotus of the heart is a tightly closed bud that will blossom with sweet effort, not agony. The tissue around the bud that prevents it from unfolding is the tissue of "shoulds" - downloaded from somewhere else.

My conditioned mind tells me nothing about who I am. Don't try to fix your mind, it's not who you are. Pause, connect to your essence, then bathe the mind in that!