Your biggest strength as a woman from South Asian, Indian, Desi or Middle Eastern background or lineage — if that’s your lineage — your biggest strength lies in the body.
Let me explain that a little bit.
If you come from these cultures, one of the strengths of the culture and the traditions have actually preserved and cultivated energies, aliveness, flow in the body. And all of these actually connect with our psychology as well.
When we’re feeling a lot of energy, passion in our lives, that’s something that we experience in the body. If we are feeling really generous, it also affects our bodies and brings a sense of warmth and flow and deliciousness in the body.
What I’m trying to say is that historically, and currently still — it’s coming down through generations, but this is our opportunity to recognize, to bring to consciousness, to continue to cultivate an awareness of what is happening in the body and how it affects us. What it brings to us.
A lot of times what I’ve noticed is that sometimes we have a tendency to try to understand and untangle things from the mind. To problem solve. To untangle them so that we can come to our flow — our generosity, our love, our peace, our joy, our pleasure.
Sometimes people really want to try to untangle the mind and ego. This is important. This is an important part of the process. Sometimes we block ourselves. Sometimes there is something we have to work through. I think it’s very important.
However, when we harness what is in the body with consciousness, with awareness — something that is there but we are not aware of — when we bring consciousness and awareness and cultivation of this to our bodies, it can fast track our transformation.
Instead of having to untangle everything from the mind, we harness the power, the flow in the body, the energies in the body to do part of the untangling. And we can also untangle from the mind, or we can process some issues that we may be experiencing.
But the body is the ground of support. So that we can return much faster to our feelings of joy, peacefulness, love, passion, generosity, kindness with ourselves.
So we can come back to ourselves.
This is my work. And I really want to put a women’s group together. A group that supports us to return to this place. That supports us to connect more with our bodies and our consciousness so that we can start to harness our strengths — to help us, to guide us, to support us in our lives. To really be alive. To really experience what we want to experience.
Join me. Because this is incredible. It is like a treasure waiting — waiting to be accessed even more, revealed even more, enjoyed even more.
I would love to have you. If this resonates, here are two ways to explore:
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Or if you’d like to explore individual work, I offer a free 20-minute consultation.
If this reflection resonated, you may also find support in these writings and resources on embodiment, healing, and psychospiritual integration:
- Nectars in the Air: What Many South Asians in the West Have Lost Touch With — on the essential richness South Asians carry in their bodies, what colonialism and westernization have done to it, and how to find your way back
- Somatic Therapy for South Asians — on reconnecting with the body through culturally attuned somatic work
- South Asian Healing — on intergenerational healing, embodiment, and reclaiming the self
- Is It My Mental Health or a Spiritual Awakening? — on spiritual openings, anxiety, and psychospiritual transformation
- The Mother Hole — on the unconscious longing to heal the mother and return to the soul
- Loneliness and the Desire to Belong on the Spiritual Path — on spiritual loneliness, soul family, and belonging