04/01/2026
Do you know the importance of naming feelings?
When you are in pain and go to the doctor for treatment, the doctor asks you a lot of questions and often even does tests to understand what you have and then name it (give a diagnosis) that will guide the treatment.
And why, when we simply ignore unfamiliar feelings and emotions, do we fit them in anywhere and grieve in the wrong ways?
Understand:
Naming is not attachment, it is delimiting.
The vṛttis (fluctuations) often arise as unrecognised emotions.
When you name it, you observe without merging with the feeling.
This is called svādhyāya: conscious self-study.
That is why naming brings clarity, reduces suffering,
increases presence,
and strengthens your relationship with yourself.
In Yoga, this is:
awareness (vidyā),
integration (yoga),
and inner freedom (kaivalya).
If you feel that you have a very beautiful feeling inside you, that moves you, that transforms you and that has no place of possession or fulfilment.
Repeat the phrase below for 7 days in your savasana/yoga nidra, with your hands on your heart.
"I recognise this (here you name the feeling you want to integrate)
I honour it.
I do not hold on to it."
This is conscious and integrated love.
This is detachment. Not all love needs to possess, not all love asks for eternity. But loving is beautiful, it takes different forms, and feeling is being alive.
Allow yourself to love and remain whole.
Namastê!
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