In psychology there the idea that "it's not your fault that you...". We did not personally create many of the dysfunctional parts of our life. Many of our struggles are rooted in early events and our of our control.
But that's not the end of the conversation of change. In yoga philosophy, not your fault is only part of (half of?) the conversation. The other part is - now what? Once you realize that you didn't create these situations, one option is to take responsibility to clean it up anyway because it will likely make your life better to do so.
This dichotomy and the tension in the dichotomy is an aspect of life - it's the dance of action & embodiment, of being & doing, of masculine & feminine, Shakti & Shiva. In yoga philosophy we need both - we need to accept that it's not our fault, yet we have the capacity to shift, renew, embody our own experience.
In this episode I'll tell stories and give examples, and then a 3-step process to navigate from doing to being.