Labels. Timeframes. 5-Year Plans.

When you realise the essence of your own Divine nature, boundless creative energy & potential, all of these external ‘necessities’ of modern life in the West become a little irrelevant. Funny thing is, ‘Divine’ is not a word I would ever have spoken out loud (or written down) before last year, entrenched as I’d been in an upbringing & society still reeling from the aftermath of the Catholic Church’s reign in Ireland.

For so long, the very concept of ‘spirituality’ was a massive buzzword for me, and like many around me, I resisted everything about it. I’d barely manage to justify an ‘Om’ at the end of yoga class, EVEN THOUGH I’m a singer by nature, EVEN THOUGH I knew yoga wasn’t remotely ‘religious’, EVEN THOUGH on some level my soul resonated with and was deeply touched by the possibility that YES, MAYBE there are greater universal forces at play here, and there is a way to access them.

Because the thing is, humans are flawed creatures, living in a flawed system. We look to external sources to give us a sense of meaning, of connection and belonging. We look outside of ourselves for all of the validation, justification and beauty we think is necessary to ‘succeed’. Because ‘Divinity’ and ‘spirituality’ have been deified and put on pedestals by the various large-scale organised religions worldwide, we are fed the idea that we will never be or have enough to be truly Divine without them. That anything related to these words must be infused with the corruption, greed and cult-like nature which they are also unfortunately associated with.

But this couldn’t be further from the truth.

The more and more I study and practice yoga and meditation, the more ‘spiritual’ (for want of a better word) I become, and the more I can see it all around me. The need to be validated, seen and heard is all around us, and the biggest and most beautiful thing any of us can do for another soul is to take the time to listen or to hear them.

To let them know that we already are worthwhile, valid and beautiful.

The human body is an incredible work of art that is capable of withstanding a multitude of hardships; regenerating when things are depleted, healing when there are injuries to heal, and rebalancing when systemic instability causes illness or disease.

And guess what? You have one, too!

We aren’t taught that by our very nature, all of this Divinity is actually within us already. We aren’t taught that we are already Divine.

That Divine energy is in us.

We are it.

This is the biggest lesson that yoga and meditation taught me, and to be honest, at first I didn’t want to accept it. Maybe I didn’t want to admit that I was responsible for my own path.

I realised that there aren’t many ways to choose the ‘right’ path without first making mistakes & choosing the ‘wrong’ ones, and it’s easy to blame the lack of ‘Divinity’ or goodness in the world when things aren’t going your way. When you realise that there never really were any ‘wrong’ or ‘right’ paths, actions or choices in the first place, that everything has just been a sequence of decisions, movements, acts & consequential results continuing on & on again until the end of time (or until global warming makes the world spontaneously combust), you start to get the sense & really, truly believe that OH. Right.

We really are infinitely powerful, Divine creatures.

And that power…well, it terrifies us.

And because we fear our own power – we play small.

We cower from our potential, our own unique gifts & creative, divine nature. We conform. We follow suit. We contort our souls to fit job descriptions, labels, & societal roles that only exist as a means to elicit a frantic sense of control over a supremely creative (& powerful) population.

We need to wake up.

If there’s anything my journey so far (& I say that in full knowledge that some people reading this will have lived longer, more experienced & travelled lives than I), has taught me, it is this;

You are already whole.

Stop looking outside yourself for beauty, for richness, for certainty, for connection; the Divinity is already within YOU.

In case you’re struggling to see it today, know this:

You are Divine.

So hum.