Namaste – from my heart to yours, from deep within me to deep within you, from my soul to yours – I bow to the divinity which is YOU.

..from my heart to yours… anjali mudra

7 letters with the whole world within them. So deep, yet so simple. All encompassing…. all embracing.

This beautiful word also has a hand gesture or in Sanskrit ‘mudra’ associated with it. The palms are joined together and placed near the chest in a prayer position. There is also a receiving mudra where one or both palms are placed at the chest and a deep acknowledgement that you have been seen and heard by the other.

This practice of salutation immediately places you in the present and was such a wonderful custom to do when I lived in India whilst I was studying Ayurveda.

…I receive your ‘namaste’…

During 2013-2014, I had an e-course named Heal Thyself. It was born out of my own self-healing from a healing challenge and included deep self-care practices and soul-healing meditations. One of the exercises we did was looking into the eyes as the windows to the soul. And I mean REALLY looking within.

Staring deep into your eyes and seeing yourself and your life.

Recognising the strength of who you are. Knowing how you have journeyed and how you have become this amazing soul-being in front of you.

We get caught up by looking at ourselves in the mirror – our hair, our life-lines, our differences. But when you truly and ONLY look into your eyes, can you truly and only see yourself. And when you start doing that on a regular basis, you bring love in. You start loving your journey, loving the experiences you have had.

You start loving the challenges, the pain and distress which has brought you here…

TODAY…

In front of this mirror…

Looking into your eyes…

The mirror to your soul.

Which brings me back to NAMASTE – from my soul to yours. Once you have seen how far your soul has journeyed in this physical life, you can recognise others’ journeys in their eyes. You can see the depth of experience in others. The hurt, the anguish, the joy, the regret. You can truly start seeing people for the souls they are – far bigger than the physical form which they show themselves to be in this life.

I encourage you… As you start seeing people – perhaps your friends, partner or people in your neighbourhood – look at them from a soul-level. Recognise their journeys, see them with compassion. Can you see their soul via their eyes – the windows to their real-being?

What did you learn, experience and feel during this soul exercise – reaching deep within your soul and also acknowledging soul journeys of others. I want to know.

Namaste…from my soul to yours…always…

Love, Bindi x