Philosophy Formatted
The global vision of Rebel Yoga is to help humans evolve and WAKE UP. It’s that simple. Upon our own powerful awakenings, everyone at Rebel Yoga is passionate about living a life of radical unconditional love for Self and all Beings everywhere.
To WAKE UP is to realize that you are the creator of your own destiny. The greatest illusion in life is to think that the World is creating your reality for you. The reality you know to be life is merely a reflection of your own internal beliefs and attitudes. What keeps us from seeing this clearly is ultimately our own Shadow. Every single one of us faces challenges every day. The challenges themselves aren’t what define us. What defines us is how we overcome these challenges.
In order to break through the shackles we must go through the FIRE. We must confront our demons and shadow and face them head on. There’s no way around it. Every one of us has been hurt. When we store that pain in our minds and body over time all of these things build up and it causes us to see the world through a filtered lens. Everything we perceive gets run through the filter of “I’m not good enough”, “I’m not worthy of love”.
This self-destructive mental story is the root of all our malfunctions. We constantly search for something or someone to help heal this deep internal sense of lack. Shopping, sex, money, pornography, drugs, alcohol, food, fame, gossiping…all addictions at their root spring from the mental story of I’m not good enough.
The Ego is never present because it’s always judging itself for something that’s happened in the past or daydreaming about its next temporary fix to make itself feel better. The irony is that we get caught in a perpetual cycle of doing things that initially create pleasure but then ultimately cause pain (self-judgment). The mind has a funny way of only remembering the pleasure from an experience. So even though we know on some level the things we’re doing cause pain, the Ego overrides that memory and repeatedly goes for the pleasure.
Each of us is comprised of two entities. Our Soul and our Ego. The Ego is that aspect of ourselves that feels separate from the whole. The Ego lives in the mind. The Ego’s most fundamental attribute is Fear. It’s constantly looking for something to justify its sense of inadequacy. It’s never present because it’s constantly in one of two states: Attraction and Aversion. It craves the things that give the Ego a temporary high and it fears the things that cause pain. There’s a constant sense of restlessness, as it’s never satisfied with what it has.
The Ego is never present because it’s always judging itself for something that’s happened in the past or daydreaming about its next temporary fix to make itself feel better. The irony is that we get caught in a perpetual cycle of doing things that initially create pleasure but then ultimately cause pain (self-judgment). The mind has a funny way of only remembering the pleasure from an experience. So even though we know on some level the things we’re doing cause pain, the Ego overrides that memory and repeatedly goes for the pleasure.
