At times, we may feel in this body a sense of heaviness, a cloudiness and dullness to our mind and inner feeling. We can attribute this heaviness to a bad mood, stressful events in our lives, etc…. Great spiritual traditions and many religions speak of engrained heaviness that occludes our vision of our higher potential. In many traditions, this is attributed to a sense of unworthiness that blocks our vision of our real potential.
For some this unworthiness is attributed to not being loved enough as children, to emotional scars or trauma or difficulties in life, to our “sinful” nature, “It’s just the way I am”…–we can come come up with all sorts of reasons for our limitations! And then we may never move beyond them.
However through meditation or yoga, you catch glimpses of this love and/or bliss that surpasses understanding and simple explanations. Your heart begins its journey of opening.
The grace of these heart opening experiences burns away, like sun to fog, this screen of unworthiness that obscures our vision of who and what we really are. Gradually our light begins to shine forth into our lives and those around us.
The Every Day Yogi 