On Living and Learning...

There is a pervasive fear of experiencing life in a way that creates emotional and mental resilience.

The current paradigm sees the avoidance of emotional and mental vulnerability and the emotional and mental fortification that comes with it as too uncomfortable to experience. This, juxtaposed to the projection of deep rooted neurosis forms a nexus of destructive misconception and a lack of accountability, exacerbated by a societal coddling of weak minded people; has created a toxic and destructive social dynamic that needs to be addressed with the brevity it requires. 

• The act of living is anathema to the avoidance that has taken control of the hearts and minds of people who feel unable to truly experience living in the fullness of the different dimensions of the self that are meant to be understood and integrated to create a more solid and fortified human being. 

The avoidance of the vulnerability in life does not fortify, it weakens. The avoidance of learning from the experience of living does not help, it harms. It weakens the ability to grow from open and honest self reflection. It harms the ability to expand through its capacity to navigate the vulnerabilities of life to their necessary conclusion because getting to that conclusion may produce hurt feelings. 

Living and learning are necessary parts of life and the avoidance of this experience and their implications require that you become comfortable with being uncomfortable to become whatever better version of the self you are working toward becoming. This is not done by coddling or condoning the behaviors that are in diametric opposition to the worthy and progressive ideal of the collective. If folks are not held accountable how else are they expected to grow? Living and learning includes being held accountable for their own experience of living and learning. 

Run towards your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual fears. They want to be tackled. 

-Yogabrofessor