06/10/2026
Who are you without your roles?
The role of a teacher, a mother, a student, someone who has it all together etc.
It’s nice to know who you are when you wake up in the morning. It feels like safety and direction.
We tend to hold so tight on these roles that when something changes, even externally, we feel terrified and lost.
Or maybe even we want some change to happen, but those identities resist hard, they give you 100500 reasons why you should stay as you are.
Sometimes I think maybe that’s exactly the point. To drop your old reality and start to explore the new one, maybe a better one. But until you hold back - you never know.
Yoga offers us this idea in different ways: do not hold tight in things (vairagya); explore yourself (svadhyaya); accept what you discover (ishvara pranidhana).