#You_are_alone_but_you_are_never_alone
Finally here at Budapest, met a Czk couples in the bus, guy with really cool tattoos all over his body (somehow tattoo people always conmect ) and his chatty funny beautiful girlfriend.
Traveling alone could feel like stranded in an island sometimes, have you seen that movie Castaway by Tom Hanks?
There are many conversations talking to yourself, lots of observation, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and sometimes you’re so bothered by things that happen on the road, you just feel like wanting to vent it out to someone.
I have been travel by myself for the last few years, thankful for the opportunity that I have with my own teacher Hart, I am willing to travel miles to study with him probably would not do it myself.
Along the way, you learn to be comfortable at your own pace, own schedule and most of all, yourself. It’s a space away from your normal routine at home, and an opportunity to know that “you are alone, but you are actually not alone” .
Many years of fighting with my own anxiety and depression, the experience of loneliness fought through these moments of being alone, but also know that you are actually connected more often than you think.
I remember one time a few years back while I was observing a teaching by H, he was working through a students about their own anxiety, and he guided the student to start talking about his sensation, feelings and what’s happening inside . Later that I know there is a technique developed earlier by Eugene Gendlin called felt sense. “ if you can express it, then your are on your way to recovery “ remember vividly described by H.
It may seems unclear to us in the beginning about how we feel about ourselves, as you start meeting strangers or travelers, you need courage to begin the conversation, at some point, your identity about who you are, your preferences and aversion start showing up.
You are mindful, connected and awakened throughout your trip alone. It creates space that you have never had if you are constantly surrounded by people you know.
So the world is in front of me, and here I am watching it in relations to who I am inside, as i see my own emotions unfold, I also see the interconnectedness of it all, that my anxiety and unworthiness are just another noise that creates by myself to stop me from being who I am.
Patanjali 1.2 yoga citta vrtti nirodha, the famous quote known to all yogis. The cessation of the mind is yoga. In many ways, travel alone provide that cessation of the mind, the fluctuations of the mind that constantly taking us away from ourself, can be healed by cutting through it by being alone.
So you are alone but you are really not alone. Being comfortable with who we are is about revealing ourselves to the world not shine away from it. So next time when you see someone you don’t know, approach them whole heartedly. Hey, who knows you might just healed yourself in the process..
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