This is an article I wrote for Wellbeing Magazine June 2018:
“Inner peace is always within – it is our innate nature – it just happens to be underneath all our layers of thinking” ~ Nicole Barton
As I sat near the top of Mount Batur at around 6am, in Bali (the rest of my yoga teacher training group continuing right to the very top) I watched the sensational sunrise in absolute awe!
In this moment, I had many thoughts. The ones I remember, though, were these: one, that I was witnessing one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen in my entire life – with the peachy oranges fading through to pearlescent pinks; two, that a monkey had just stolen my banana and I’d worked blooming hard to get to the top of the mountain; three, that I was a real wuss for not continuing to the top of the summit; and four, that I was alone. Then, I had thoughts about thoughts! Take ‘I’m alone,’ for example. I was sitting with this beautiful sunrise, attaching meaning to it all: I’m alone and isn’t it wonderful that I managed to get myself half the way across the world with the debilitating illness Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; I’m alone and – oh, gosh – how very tragic this is to be here on-my-own with such a beautiful view to share; I’m alone and – oh, no – why am I alone? – I’m always alone, this is the story of my life as an only child whose Dad ‘abandoned’ her! It went on.
Click the link below to read the original article on Wellbeing Magazine:
