November 14, 2024 • 25 mins
Ramaa.Krishnan, born and raised in India, aligned with a spiritual path and purpose from an early age. Her husband's career brought their family to the US in 1998 and she soon began sharing her perspectives and practices with others, helping them manage stress and live their lives more consciously. In 2006 she founded Full Bloomed Lotus Center for Self-Awareness, renting a studio space and expanding her circle. A difficult period in her own life had Ramaa digging deeper, uncovering old forgotten wounds, and exploring a deeper faith, beyond traditional practices. During the pandemic she closed the studio, moved her classes online, and used the time to write her first book, The Yoga of Self-Love: The Sacred Path to Wholeness and Healing through Inner-Child Work. The book is a step-by-step guide to self-discovery and healing, underscoring the power of reshaping our narratives, and affirming that while we cannot alter our past, we can find the freedom to change how we perceive it. Ramaa joins Mark on the edition of Late Night Health.
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
Late Night Health continues. I'm Mark Callan along at the
Insane Daryl Wayne, and we are here in southern California
and we are going to go to a suburb of Chicago.
We're going to spend some time with Rama Krishnan. She
is the founder of the Full Bloom Lotus Center for
(01:29):
Self Awareness. Born and raised in India, she developed a
deep spiritual perspective on life and she shares that at
her center and also in her brand new book. And
the book is what's.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
The name of the book, The Yoga of fell Love.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The Yoga of Self Love. So when people think of yoga,
I think of postures. I think of standing and stretching,
and I think that's all important. But has there ever
been a yoga for the mind, because that's what your
book is all about.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yes. Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
The subtitle of the book is the Sacred Path to
Wholeness and Healing through Inner child Work. So when we
talk about this kind of internal yoga, it's more of
an emotional posture, you see. So we are still talking
about a posture, but It is an emotional posture where
(02:29):
our adult self reaches back to our child self and
maintains that connection through practice and throughout life.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
How did you become involved, if you will, with the
inner workings? I mean, did you start by Were you
practicing yoga yourself? I mean physical yoga?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yes, I was doing so from an early age, and
I was interested in meditation, philosophy, and then initiated into
Kundalini yoga, which is a form of yoga that incorporates posture,
breath work, chanting, and I did all of that and
(03:15):
this continued for several years before things started to shift
in myself and I went through a very difficult period
where I did not know why I was feeling the
way I was because on one level, all the boxes
were checked. You know, I have a husband, I have children,
(03:36):
They're going to school, life is going well. I'm doing
my practice check check check, I'm doing the meditation.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Reading, so everything was going on.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
But there was a feeling of emptiness, feeling deeply unfulfilled,
and like there was some integral piece missing. And this
continued and I tried to shake myself out of it,
tried to meditate myself out of to read myself out
of it. And then there came a time when I
(04:05):
had a big dream, and in that dream, I saw
that there was an inner There was a little girl
in my dream who was crying and feeling abandoned, and
I saw that in that dream that I ran to
her and embraced her. And I woke up and felt
(04:26):
like this was the answer to something I had been
looking for. And in the book that I am sharing
with you, I talk about the whole journey because just
around that time I had met.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
A very dream interpreter in.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Our neighborhood, and I did not even know there was
something like dream interpretation, and suddenly all these things came together,
and so I went to her with the dream and
I said, who's that little girl who was crying in
my dream?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And she said, that was your inner child.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And so that started the whole journey of my understanding
that you know, spirituality, very often we think of an
outside in process. I have to meditate, I have to
do this, a checklist of things. But what we, at
least I was doing was a spirituality that had turned
its back on my own human self, and so I
(05:20):
had to reinterpret spirituality as inner child work.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
When when this happened. When when you have this deep
feeling of missing something, something was wrong? Okay, something just
wasn't right. I mean, as you said, you have the checkboxes,
you you haven't you? You have you went to college.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yes, I went to so I was born and raised
in India where I did my bachelor's degree in economics,
and then I became a CPA. In India, we are
called chartered accountants. So yes, I had all of that
background behind me before we moved to the United States.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So you can even balance a checkbook, that's good. But
you have this feeling of missing something. Do you think
that most people today are missing something in their lives?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I believe so. So after I did this work. Suddenly,
as I continued to do this work, so much became
so clear to me about how so many people, including myself,
we have this feeling of there's something missing, but we
always look outwards for it. One person is running after money,
(06:36):
another person after relationships. In my own case, I had
been running after spirituality, doing one practice after another, one
book after another, one philosophy after another. And when I
saw the light, so to speak, I began to see
how it is so deeply inside of us, so near
(06:57):
and yet so far, and quest is so misguided?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Is everybody's question bottom line to use an accounting term,
the same or is it different?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I think that the quest is the same, that is
integration with our inner child or our soul. The quest
is the same. How we get to it will be different.
This is my journey of how I got to it.
But when I talk about it, and even in the book,
I share the steps that a person could follow to
(07:36):
find out what is the best way one needs to uncover,
recover and reconnect with that soul, that original person that
you were always meant to be, Because that is the quest.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
You seem to be a people person. You're outgoing. Writing
is such a self imposed I don't know you're locked
into writing so much every day until the book gets done.
(08:11):
My point is, was writing this book hard or was it?
Was it easy for you?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I don't see myself as an extrovert in the sense
that I am My.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Primary source of.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Energy reflection is always internal, So I think I'm introvert,
but I also am comfortable talking about the journey. But
needing to meditate, needing to spend quiet time by myself,
was always part of it so, and I had been
(08:50):
teaching this for a long time as this journey was unfolding.
I had been teaching this in my you know, center
for self awareness. But during the pandemic, the time when
you know, everybody has a lot, I had a lot
of time, and We're sitting at.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Home and I was journaling.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I have been a journaler for several years now, so
moving that process of sitting and writing in my journal
to simply writing in a way that I was sharing
my story with another was an easy transition for me.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
It was not difficult.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It wasn't It wasn't difficult.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
No, it was not difficult.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And what about your family? When you said I'm going
to write a book, you have I think three kids
and a husband.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Two kids and a husband that you could say three kids,
but that's okay.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Got it. Well you can adopt me too, so I'm
number one and you don't have to send me to college.
I already did that. So what what was the initial
response from your husband and your kids?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I think that So my husband had already written a book.
So my husband's an artist and a writer himself, so
he had written a book some ten fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Ago, so he got it. Yeah. So he was like, yeah, good.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
And for a long time I had been so before
I actually sat down and wrote the book, for several years,
I had been talking about it to my family and friends.
I need to write a book. There's a book in
me that's waiting to be written.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So they were all like, finally, she's going to do it,
and she's going to stop talking about.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well that is good. And what we're going to do
is we're going to find out how your kids reacted.
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of the yoga Self Love, and her name is Rama Krisnan.
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graciously given Daryl Wayne the day off, but we miss him.
So that is why I keep saying he is with us.
He'll be back next week. Our guest is Rama Christian.
She has written a book called The Yoga of Self Love,
and it says guiding readers toward healing and hollness through
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inner child work. As a guy, I know that most women,
many women, I'll rephrase that, think of men as kids anyway,
as children. Okay, do we all have this inner child?
And what is it? Yes?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I think yes, we all do have an inner child
because we all were children at one time. So there's
always that child self of ours. And what happens is
that very often many parts of that inner child, say
many many parts. It means many aspects sometimes our humor,
(16:04):
our courage, our spontaneity, our affection, our heart, so many
you know, aspects of that inner child remain in us,
but they remain locked away because in the process of
becoming an adult, as we go through life's experiences, we
(16:26):
become guarded, and therefore we decide to the adult self
in us, the ego self in us decides that many
parts of our inner child are our inconvenient truths that
we put.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Away, and that's what happens to us.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
And we come into you know, middle age and later
in life, and we sense that there's something missing, but
we look for what is missing outside without realizing what
we are missing our aspects of ourself that have been
locked away, put away, or disconnected from ourselves.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
So, yes, it is there in all of us.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
And while some parts of it remain active, many parts
of it, like I said, the inconvenient truths stay dormant
or disconnected.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
What about the fact that many people seem to be jaded,
would that be what you're talking.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
When they are jaded, it's because, you know, imagine if
you were just to eat salad every single day, you know,
because it's healthy, but of course you know that not
every healthy meal is tasty.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You also want something spicy, you want something from.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You know, and ideal meal would be something that's both
healthy and tasty and a little unhealthy, and the whole
mixture of it makes you want to return to the table.
It's the same thing with ourselves. Along the journey, we
decide that there are parts of ours which are safe
and healthy and appropriate, and so we start to cultivate that,
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and then there are parts of ours which might be
inconvenient to the people around us. Maybe the culture and
other conditionings make us feel that they're not good enough,
and that if we brought them out we may not
be accepted, we may be you.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Know, make others uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
And so the same thing that we have been recycling
over and over again leaves us feeling jaded.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
First of all, you mentioned food is an analogy, which
is great. Rama is going to be cooking something on
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(19:18):
You mentioned several times. I guess faith. Is it important
to have some kind of belief in something bigger than
we are, God, Krishna, Jesus moses.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Something something.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I think that you know, even the most atheistic person
has some deep belief of philosophy about how things work
that makes people optimistic or pessimistic person of faith could
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be a person who believes in a god, philosophy, a
religion you know, as you said, or it could just
be a person who doesn't believe in God but still
believes in life being basically a struggle, or believe that
one is basically unlucky, unfortunate. All of these, you know, together,
(20:26):
they are revealing our innate relationship.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
With that which we cannot understand or.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Know, and to bring that to awareness and to examine
our relationship with the unknowable. That is an important part
of our healing because very often, whether it is through faith, tradition, religion,
or our personal family experiences, our faith in the unknown
(21:02):
is damaged, and so we go about fearing life, not
trusting it.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
But don't you I hate that word unknown.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I want to know, Yeah, but not everything is knowable?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
So how do we deal with the unknowable?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Right?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Do you fight it? Do you continue to study it?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Or do you say I will try to understand, but
what I don't understand I shall trust.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
But at the same time, you know, a person A
says my way is the right way, person B, C, D,
and E, and they're all right, I mean we're hearing
this every day in the news.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
You're absolutely right, and that's the biggest challenge we are
facing in our times. How do we integrate everybody's personal
beliefs and still remain together.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
As a race or as a family even you see.
And that is why we.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Have to cultivate a language, a system where we are
able to honor what we have faith in and make
room for another and figure out ways by which we
can all coexist.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
And it starts.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
With that internal work of examining our inner child and
finding within ourself there are voices within us that we
may not always agree with. And how do I make
peace with those parts of myself that are part of
me but I don't always like or agree with. See,
(22:46):
so the internal discord. If I can learn to manage
it and accept that there will always be discord in
myself and I'm at peace with it, then I'm able
to expand it, extend it to the world outside and say,
in a family, it will be disagreement, but we are
still a family.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And should should we be optimistic about life? Or I
know so many people who are pessimistic that they're always
waiting for the proverbial other foot to drive.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Yeah, that's a great question mark, and I've often thought
about it because ultimately, if you look at people who
are optimistic, terrible things happened to them too.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
You know. And it just reminds me of a lesson.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
So when I came to the United States, I did
not know how to drive, and so, in fact I
make a joke that I failed the driver's license test
three times before I got it on my fourth attempt.
But because I was well into my thirties by the
time I came to the United States, but I learned
a lot of lessons in that journey, and one of
(23:58):
them was my driving instructor telling me keep looking at
that tree there that we are driving towards. And I
wanted to look at the road in front of me,
and he would say, don't look here, look at that tree.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
We are going there.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I would say, but what if something happens here, and
he would say, we'll have to handle that, but you
need to look there. Anyway, Over that course of failing
and finally getting the driver's license, I made up the
sentence that a good driver drives to reach the destination,
a bad driver drives to avoid an accident.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Interesting, we are at a time. I really appreciate you
spending some time with us. The name of the book
the Yoga of Self Love, The Yoga of Self Love.
And if you're in the I think it's over here.
Hold on. You can go to a full bloomloadus dot
(24:56):
com Full bloomloadus dot com for more information. We are
at a time, and Darryl, I really apologize, I'm over. Uh.
This is Mark Allen. I want you to have a
great day, a great week, and most importantly you have
a healthy one. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Bye bye for now, Thank you Mark.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
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this season, Instacart's here for hosts and their whole holiday haul.
(26:24):
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Service fees in terms supply.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
The holidays are all about sharing with family, meals, couches, stories,
gramma secret pecan pie recipe, and now you can also
share a cart with Instacart's family carts. Everyone can add
what they want to one group cart from wherever they are,
so you don't have to go from room to room
to find out who wants cranberry sauce, or who should
get many marshmallows for the ams, or collecting votes for
sugar cookies versus shortbread. Just share a cart and then
(26:55):
share the meals and the moments. Download the instacart app
and get delivery in as fast as thirty minutes. Plus
enjoy free delivery on your first three orders. Service fees
and terms apply
Why get all your holiday decorations delivered through instacart Because
maybe you only bought two wreaths but you have twelve windows,
Or maybe your toddler got very eager with the advent calendar,
or maybe the inflatable snowman didn't make it through the snowstorm,
or maybe the twinkle lights aren't twinkling. Whatever the reason,
this season, Instacart's here for hosts and their whole holiday haul.
(00:22):
Get decorations from the home depots, cvs and more through
instacart and enjoy free delivery on your first three orders
service fees in terms supply.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
The holidays are all about sharing with family, meals, couches, stories,
Gramma secret pecan pie recipe, and now you can also
share a cart with Instacart's family carts. Everyone can add
what they want to one group cart from wherever they are,
so you don't have to go from room to room
to find out who wants cranberry sauce, or who should
get many marshmallows for the ams, or collecting votes for
sugar cookies versus shortbread. Just share a cart and then
(00:52):
share the meals and the moments. Download the instacart app
and get delivery in as fast as thirty minutes plus
enjoy free delivery on your first three orders. Service fees
and terms apply.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Late Night Health continues. I'm Mark Callan along at the
Insane Daryl Wayne, and we are here in southern California
and we are going to go to a suburb of Chicago.
We're going to spend some time with Rama Krishnan. She
is the founder of the Full Bloom Lotus Center for
(01:29):
Self Awareness. Born and raised in India, she developed a
deep spiritual perspective on life and she shares that at
her center and also in her brand new book. And
the book is what's.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
The name of the book, The Yoga of fell Love.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The Yoga of Self Love. So when people think of yoga,
I think of postures. I think of standing and stretching,
and I think that's all important. But has there ever
been a yoga for the mind, because that's what your
book is all about.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yes. Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
The subtitle of the book is the Sacred Path to
Wholeness and Healing through Inner child Work. So when we
talk about this kind of internal yoga, it's more of
an emotional posture, you see. So we are still talking
about a posture, but It is an emotional posture where
(02:29):
our adult self reaches back to our child self and
maintains that connection through practice and throughout life.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
How did you become involved, if you will, with the
inner workings? I mean, did you start by Were you
practicing yoga yourself? I mean physical yoga?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Yes, I was doing so from an early age, and
I was interested in meditation, philosophy, and then initiated into
Kundalini yoga, which is a form of yoga that incorporates posture,
breath work, chanting, and I did all of that and
(03:15):
this continued for several years before things started to shift
in myself and I went through a very difficult period
where I did not know why I was feeling the
way I was because on one level, all the boxes
were checked. You know, I have a husband, I have children,
(03:36):
They're going to school, life is going well. I'm doing
my practice check check check, I'm doing the meditation.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Reading, so everything was going on.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
But there was a feeling of emptiness, feeling deeply unfulfilled,
and like there was some integral piece missing. And this
continued and I tried to shake myself out of it,
tried to meditate myself out of to read myself out
of it. And then there came a time when I
(04:05):
had a big dream, and in that dream, I saw
that there was an inner There was a little girl
in my dream who was crying and feeling abandoned, and
I saw that in that dream that I ran to
her and embraced her. And I woke up and felt
(04:26):
like this was the answer to something I had been
looking for. And in the book that I am sharing
with you, I talk about the whole journey because just
around that time I had met.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
A very dream interpreter in.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Our neighborhood, and I did not even know there was
something like dream interpretation, and suddenly all these things came together,
and so I went to her with the dream and
I said, who's that little girl who was crying in
my dream?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And she said, that was your inner child.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
And so that started the whole journey of my understanding
that you know, spirituality, very often we think of an
outside in process. I have to meditate, I have to
do this, a checklist of things. But what we, at
least I was doing was a spirituality that had turned
its back on my own human self, and so I
(05:20):
had to reinterpret spirituality as inner child work.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
When when this happened. When when you have this deep
feeling of missing something, something was wrong? Okay, something just
wasn't right. I mean, as you said, you have the checkboxes,
you you haven't you? You have you went to college.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yes, I went to so I was born and raised
in India where I did my bachelor's degree in economics,
and then I became a CPA. In India, we are
called chartered accountants. So yes, I had all of that
background behind me before we moved to the United States.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
So you can even balance a checkbook, that's good. But
you have this feeling of missing something. Do you think
that most people today are missing something in their lives?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I believe so. So after I did this work. Suddenly,
as I continued to do this work, so much became
so clear to me about how so many people, including myself,
we have this feeling of there's something missing, but we
always look outwards for it. One person is running after money,
(06:36):
another person after relationships. In my own case, I had
been running after spirituality, doing one practice after another, one
book after another, one philosophy after another. And when I
saw the light, so to speak, I began to see
how it is so deeply inside of us, so near
(06:57):
and yet so far, and quest is so misguided?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Is everybody's question bottom line to use an accounting term,
the same or is it different?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I think that the quest is the same, that is
integration with our inner child or our soul. The quest
is the same. How we get to it will be different.
This is my journey of how I got to it.
But when I talk about it, and even in the book,
I share the steps that a person could follow to
(07:36):
find out what is the best way one needs to uncover,
recover and reconnect with that soul, that original person that
you were always meant to be, Because that is the quest.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
You seem to be a people person. You're outgoing. Writing
is such a self imposed I don't know you're locked
into writing so much every day until the book gets done.
(08:11):
My point is, was writing this book hard or was it?
Was it easy for you?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I don't see myself as an extrovert in the sense
that I am My.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Primary source of.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Energy reflection is always internal, So I think I'm introvert,
but I also am comfortable talking about the journey. But
needing to meditate, needing to spend quiet time by myself,
was always part of it so, and I had been
(08:50):
teaching this for a long time as this journey was unfolding.
I had been teaching this in my you know, center
for self awareness. But during the pandemic, the time when
you know, everybody has a lot, I had a lot
of time, and We're sitting at.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Home and I was journaling.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I have been a journaler for several years now, so
moving that process of sitting and writing in my journal
to simply writing in a way that I was sharing
my story with another was an easy transition for me.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
It was not difficult.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
It wasn't It wasn't difficult.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
No, it was not difficult.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And what about your family? When you said I'm going
to write a book, you have I think three kids
and a husband.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Two kids and a husband that you could say three kids,
but that's okay.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Got it. Well you can adopt me too, so I'm
number one and you don't have to send me to college.
I already did that. So what what was the initial
response from your husband and your kids?
Speaker 5 (09:58):
I think that So my husband had already written a book.
So my husband's an artist and a writer himself, so
he had written a book some ten fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Ago, so he got it. Yeah. So he was like, yeah, good.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
And for a long time I had been so before
I actually sat down and wrote the book, for several years,
I had been talking about it to my family and friends.
I need to write a book. There's a book in
me that's waiting to be written.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So they were all like, finally, she's going to do it,
and she's going to stop talking about.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well that is good. And what we're going to do
is we're going to find out how your kids reacted.
In just a couple of moments, we have to take
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Late Night Health can tinues. I'm Mark Allen and we've
(15:04):
graciously given Daryl Wayne the day off, but we miss him.
So that is why I keep saying he is with us.
He'll be back next week. Our guest is Rama Christian.
She has written a book called The Yoga of Self Love,
and it says guiding readers toward healing and hollness through
(15:27):
inner child work. As a guy, I know that most women,
many women, I'll rephrase that, think of men as kids anyway,
as children. Okay, do we all have this inner child?
And what is it? Yes?
Speaker 5 (15:44):
I think yes, we all do have an inner child
because we all were children at one time. So there's
always that child self of ours. And what happens is
that very often many parts of that inner child, say
many many parts. It means many aspects sometimes our humor,
(16:04):
our courage, our spontaneity, our affection, our heart, so many
you know, aspects of that inner child remain in us,
but they remain locked away because in the process of
becoming an adult, as we go through life's experiences, we
(16:26):
become guarded, and therefore we decide to the adult self
in us, the ego self in us decides that many
parts of our inner child are our inconvenient truths that
we put.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Away, and that's what happens to us.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
And we come into you know, middle age and later
in life, and we sense that there's something missing, but
we look for what is missing outside without realizing what
we are missing our aspects of ourself that have been
locked away, put away, or disconnected from ourselves.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
So, yes, it is there in all of us.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
And while some parts of it remain active, many parts
of it, like I said, the inconvenient truths stay dormant
or disconnected.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
What about the fact that many people seem to be jaded,
would that be what you're talking.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
When they are jaded, it's because, you know, imagine if
you were just to eat salad every single day, you know,
because it's healthy, but of course you know that not
every healthy meal is tasty.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
You also want something spicy, you want something from.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
You know, and ideal meal would be something that's both
healthy and tasty and a little unhealthy, and the whole
mixture of it makes you want to return to the table.
It's the same thing with ourselves. Along the journey, we
decide that there are parts of ours which are safe
and healthy and appropriate, and so we start to cultivate that,
(18:22):
and then there are parts of ours which might be
inconvenient to the people around us. Maybe the culture and
other conditionings make us feel that they're not good enough,
and that if we brought them out we may not
be accepted, we may be you.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Know, make others uncomfortable.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
And so the same thing that we have been recycling
over and over again leaves us feeling jaded.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
First of all, you mentioned food is an analogy, which
is great. Rama is going to be cooking something on
Our Sisters show in November, middle of November, and it
will be healthy and tasty, and my request is maybe
a little spicy as well, because absolutely, yeah, okay, that's good.
(19:18):
You mentioned several times. I guess faith. Is it important
to have some kind of belief in something bigger than
we are, God, Krishna, Jesus moses.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Something something.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I think that you know, even the most atheistic person
has some deep belief of philosophy about how things work
that makes people optimistic or pessimistic person of faith could
(20:02):
be a person who believes in a god, philosophy, a
religion you know, as you said, or it could just
be a person who doesn't believe in God but still
believes in life being basically a struggle, or believe that
one is basically unlucky, unfortunate. All of these, you know, together,
(20:26):
they are revealing our innate relationship.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
With that which we cannot understand or.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Know, and to bring that to awareness and to examine
our relationship with the unknowable. That is an important part
of our healing because very often, whether it is through faith, tradition, religion,
or our personal family experiences, our faith in the unknown
(21:02):
is damaged, and so we go about fearing life, not
trusting it.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
But don't you I hate that word unknown.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I want to know, Yeah, but not everything is knowable?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
So how do we deal with the unknowable?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Right?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Do you fight it? Do you continue to study it?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Or do you say I will try to understand, but
what I don't understand I shall trust.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
But at the same time, you know, a person A
says my way is the right way, person B, C, D,
and E, and they're all right, I mean we're hearing
this every day in the news.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
You're absolutely right, and that's the biggest challenge we are
facing in our times. How do we integrate everybody's personal
beliefs and still remain together.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
As a race or as a family even you see.
And that is why we.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Have to cultivate a language, a system where we are
able to honor what we have faith in and make
room for another and figure out ways by which we
can all coexist.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
And it starts.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
With that internal work of examining our inner child and
finding within ourself there are voices within us that we
may not always agree with. And how do I make
peace with those parts of myself that are part of
me but I don't always like or agree with. See,
(22:46):
so the internal discord. If I can learn to manage
it and accept that there will always be discord in
myself and I'm at peace with it, then I'm able
to expand it, extend it to the world outside and say,
in a family, it will be disagreement, but we are
still a family.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And should should we be optimistic about life? Or I
know so many people who are pessimistic that they're always
waiting for the proverbial other foot to drive.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Yeah, that's a great question mark, and I've often thought
about it because ultimately, if you look at people who
are optimistic, terrible things happened to them too.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
You know. And it just reminds me of a lesson.
Speaker 5 (23:36):
So when I came to the United States, I did
not know how to drive, and so, in fact I
make a joke that I failed the driver's license test
three times before I got it on my fourth attempt.
But because I was well into my thirties by the
time I came to the United States, but I learned
a lot of lessons in that journey, and one of
(23:58):
them was my driving instructor telling me keep looking at
that tree there that we are driving towards. And I
wanted to look at the road in front of me,
and he would say, don't look here, look at that tree.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
We are going there.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I would say, but what if something happens here, and
he would say, we'll have to handle that, but you
need to look there. Anyway, Over that course of failing
and finally getting the driver's license, I made up the
sentence that a good driver drives to reach the destination,
a bad driver drives to avoid an accident.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Interesting, we are at a time. I really appreciate you
spending some time with us. The name of the book
the Yoga of Self Love, The Yoga of Self Love.
And if you're in the I think it's over here.
Hold on. You can go to a full bloomloadus dot
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com Full bloomloadus dot com for more information. We are
at a time, and Darryl, I really apologize, I'm over. Uh.
This is Mark Allen. I want you to have a
great day, a great week, and most importantly you have
a healthy one. We'll see you next time.
Speaker 8 (25:14):
Bye bye for now, Thank you Mark.
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