Dissolving in Experience
Discovering Ourselves Through Change
The moving force for change and growth is simple: figure out why you do what you do and figure out how to live by the intention with ignited emotion.
Through experience we learn, we grow, and discover parts of ourselves we never knew existed. We expand, as individuals, and as a collective. Experience is what teaches us. Not all experience is pleasant, which makes it neither good nor bad, just not necessarily pleasant. Growing, evolving, and learning through experience is exactly that: growing, evolving and learning through experience. But we can make it to be much bigger than that in our minds.
Experience molds us. And if we allow it, it serves to transform us. It can teach us to become conscious and deliberate in every thought, presence, and action. The very experience that drilled that experience as very personal is the catalyst for transformation. It is in and through experience that we heal, a deeply sacred and wounded space within, if we allow ourselves to go there.
And maybe, just maybe, the gift to help others is extended to shorten the learning curve of another through the skill you can provide. What a blessing.
Training and Aligning the Mind and Body to Serve Your Highest Potential
The knowledge and the wisdom to train our different ‘bodies’, the mental, the physical, and the energetic, is ongoing.
All techniques compliment prayer and Dhikr to foster tawakkul (trusting in God’s plan) and bring forth a state of inner-tranquility in the heart that is bestowed as a gift (known as sakina).
True reliance and inner-peace are coaxed into existence, not forced.
There’s been a deep shift in the driver behind the approach I take when it comes to health and fitness, in particular mental and nutritional nourishment. There is also a deeply concerted and conscious effort into training the central nervous system back into a more balanced state of presence. Fight, flight, and freeze were designed to serve us. There is no flaw in our design. Some of us need to learn how to re-wire the circuits to do what they were originally designed to do, and not operate on false-alarm. This includes trusting ourselves as much as trusting in God.
Forever grateful to the One and lost for words. Deeply grateful to all the teachers who continue to contribute to this journey of self-discovery and love.
As I continue to learn I hold the intention to share the gifts I have received.
Why We Do What We Do
Understanding the Driver Behind Inner Potential
Through the experiences and interests that taught me not only how to survive, but how to once again feel and be alive, I share.
The Volition Birthed into the ‘Why’
So, a small glimpse of why I delve into what I do, the way I do. I always wanted to be a writer, or a psychologist. I loved writing and I was fascinated with the human psyche. Pretty straightforward, right? Somehow, neither one of those options painted the image of success when it came to my parents. And the younger version of me was deeply influenced by what they had to say (actually, the entire family happened to get involved in the decision-making-process of every ‘real life’ matter). The result was an academic (and early career path) that was completely out of alignment: the world of pharmaceuticals and business. I learned very early that there are two kinds of people: those who know what they want, and go after it with full-force, and those who figure out what they want by means of doing and learning from what they don’t want. I happen to fall under the second category of the two, and much of the experiences live that lesson out well.
So those interests never faded but took a back-burner of a ride. I journaled as a means to self-introspection and therapy and I frequented books rich in philosophy and psychology in leisure time.
The World of NLP, Nutrition, and Fitness
Neuro-linguistic programming, strategy, sport nutrition, resistance training and fitness became integral concepts to my own personal well-being. Struggling to overcome numerous eating disorders on my personal journey, I learned what only experience in overcoming a challenge can teach you. Because the underlying cause of disruption will inevitably unfold in all areas of life, I came to witness sacred spaces violated, and with it came the deep need to heal at the core level.
Energy Acclimation, Meditation and Prayer
Cultivating stillness was born out of necessity, not desire. The return to God was the gift that came from deep heartache and tribulation. In retrospect, I always used to say that I was interested in spirituality. But you always make time for what you prioritize. I was too absorbed in the material world, driving a sense of worth from productivity to overcompensate for what was lacking within, to understand this at the time. I had to be smacked into awakening to figure that out. And, well, the Love runs deep.
The Source of all knowledge and wisdom belongs to Allah (SWT). Any and all shortcoming is my own. May I have the ability to transfer to you all that you need on your personal journey of self-love and soul-growth. May Allah (SWT) bless this journey with His barakeh (blessing). May every cell within your being resonate Peace (salam).
