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Food for thought. Reflections on the word authenticity:

“Central to healing trauma is having an environment where you can be in relationship to yourself in a very real and authentic manner. You turn toward the felt sense of your body in the here and now and welcome all of your emotions—even the ones you might tend to reject or hide from yourself or others. It is normal to experience anger, fear, and sadness after having experienced trauma, and it is common for these emotions to emerge during the healing process. Yoga offers opportunities to get in touch with these raw feelings in a playful manner that allows you to roar like a lion or crouch like a tiger who is ready to pounce. Other times, yoga is the much-needed sacred refuge that allows you to mourn with a soulful cry. So long as you are ready for this process, it is often a tremendous relief when you can finally let go.”
Arielle Schwartz, Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma

I’ll pair this thought with a few fitting quotes…

“What if enlightenment were less about fireworks and eternal bliss and more about dissipating the illusions we have about what life itself is? About becoming more authentic, compassionate, and real — and stopping our pretending? About letting the protective layers of our personality structure crumble? About becoming progressively more effective agents of transformation and of the alleviation of suffering in the world, beginning with ourselves? I have come to believe that although different paths have different goals, an authentic and integrated spiritual path should make us more real and human, not less.”
~ Mariana Caplan, author of Yoga and Psyche

“Now, about that word authentic. It is related to the word author—and you can think of it as being the author of your own self.

When you’re living your own reality, you become the sovereign of your own life. You know who you are, you speak what you believe. There’s a natural pride that goes with that:
This is who I am—take me or leave me...

To me, real power is about presence. It’s the energy of knowing that you are who you are, and therefore speaking and acting from your authentic self. It doesn’t matter what your work is—if you’re a teacher or a nurse or whatever; it is your presence that’s the power. It’s not power over anybody else. It’s just the expression of who you are'.
~Marion Woodman, from an interview with Oprah.