Therapy | Coaching | Yoga | Mindfulness
We live in a world that often encourages us to keep moving, achieving and responding. With so much competing for our attention, it can be difficult to find the time and space to notice how we are feeling, what we need, or what really matters to us.
Sometimes, in the midst of everyday life, we can lose touch with ourselves.
I remember watching the Disney film Stargirl with my daughter and being struck by a speech about the pace of modern life. It reflected on how little time we allow ourselves to pause, to be uncertain, or simply to watch something grow. It resonated with us both, and stayed with me.
There is something important about allowing ourselves that space. Not necessarily to find answers, or to change how we feel, but to become more aware of our experience.
Being at home in ourselves doesn’t mean always feeling comfortable, peaceful or content.
Life brings uncertainty, difficulty, joy, sadness and everything in between. Sometimes our experiences can feel overwhelming, confusing or difficult to make sense of. At other times, we may find ourselves disconnected from what we’re feeling, or caught up in familiar patterns of thinking and responding.
For me, being at home in ourselves is about developing a relationship with our experience that allows room for all of this. It is an invitation to meet ourselves with curiosity, sensitivity and compassion, rather than feeling that we must always be different from how we are.
This involves more than understanding ourselves through thought. Our bodies, emotions, sensations and relationships are all part of how we experience life. When we begin to pay attention to these different aspects of ourselves, we may discover something beyond our familiar ways of thinking.
This understanding runs through my work in psychosynthesis counselling, yoga, mindfulness and transpersonal coaching. Although each offers a different approach, they share an interest in awareness, connection and our capacity to relate to ourselves and our experiences in new ways.
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There is no particular state we need to reach, or way we need to feel, to begin.
Perhaps being at home in ourselves starts with making a little more room for whatever is here.
Ways to be at home in yourself
