Labels

As I work my way through my yoga teacher training we are challenged to look deeper into ourselves. Understand why we think and do what do we. Are we just doing the status quo? or are we speaking out loud? Why do we react the way we do to certain situations and people?
 Don't get me wrong I don't have the answer to any of these questions.. I think it is something inside of us that we need to wake up and in doing so allowing ourselves to be vunerable and becoming connected with ourselves ( body and mind) again.

Yesterday in class we touched on labels and ego. This struck a cord with me. Why do we have to label everything?  Fat, skinny, mean, nice, smart, dumb, anxious, all of our food.. I could go on forever.. What would happen if we dropped the labels and just lived as ourselves. What if I stopped labelling myself as a young mom of two who struggles with anxiety? and just became Katelyn. Not living up to the expectation of what has been "given" to me but of who I am? No I am not perfect, none of us are but when we drop the labels it is liberating. I shouldn't have to live up with someone else's expectation of mySelf. We do only have to answer to ourSelves so why are we so tangled and "defined" by what lables others have given us?

Now I clearly don't have the answers to all these questions and am going to spend some time on my mat today doing some yoga and digesting these thoughts and understanding why I have become so passionate about it. I feel like I need to dive in deeper but thought I would share these thoughts.

Nameste!