The Story of the two wolves

The Story of Two Wolves

Practicing everyday yoga on the mat  & meditations in Silence made me realize one thing for sure: meet with all the good with in. And the good will radiate by itself when we keep nourishing the good within.

After all, life is how we integrate all the knowledge from within, all the good we have gathered into our daily life- from the mat to off the mat, and or from deep state of meditations to when we are not in meditations. Otherwise how will we meet life’s challenges? How we will react to life’s most difficult issues?

This reminds me of a beautiful and awesome story of the Cherokee- (Native)Indians.

Here is an old Cherokee-teaching:

 An old grandfather teaching his grandson about life.

“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”

 He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”

The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

We heard this story often and it’s all over the internet. This story serves as an important and gentle reminder of the power we have over our experiences, impressions and emotions as we face life -in our own way.

How easy it’s to feel like a victim, complaining, feelings of guilt, feelings of superior and or inferior,  blaming others, attacking others, defending our mistakes over and over, in challenging situations and circumstances in our lives.  Why we defend our negative thoughts, feelings , behaviors and experiences, and why we place blame & more on the other person, objects, or events. We look outward to try to make sense of what’s going on inside of us, quickly we come with tons of negative emotions - Most of us do this all the time. Why? It’s perhaps we love to cope, and feel more in control of the uncontrollable situations? Are we defending our ego?

This approach-however- is that it takes away our personal responsibility. And therefore our very personal POWER in life to evolve to higher awareness.

 In our attempt to feel more in control (by faulting others for our experience (past karma coming back to us, by our own past acts), blaming, feeling in control etc.) And actually we take away our own power from our own self. That power is lost the moment we become dependent on other people or things to make us feel a certain way. Whether that feeling is positive or negative, we are no longer taking soul’s responsibility for our own emotions or experiences when we believe that they are a result of anything other than our own choice- our own past creations.

When we are practicing our freedom of choice, we can make a life-changing decision of which wolf we want to feed. Do we feed the wolf who is hungry for ego-sake, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, inferiority, victim, aloofness, complaining, blaming and being in control of importance? This evil wolf is our own inner negatieve temper. This wolf is a representation of our traumas, stress, depression, anxiety, feelings of no one loves us and our low self-esteem, perhaps our out of balance ego & our fear.

By taking responsibility of our souls we are encouraging to feed the good wolf, not the bad wolf. By making a choice:  how to use our energy and resources on thoughts, feeling, behavior and emotions that serve us in healthy ways. The bad wolf will die, when we don’t feed him. He will lose his strength and power, eventually he will surrender.

How & who will to feed the good wolf?

We will feed this good wolf. By nourishing him with:  joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, sweetness, forgiveness, gratitude, believe, counting our blessings, by silence and faith. 

We have a source within us: bliss, Joy, Love and more.

By diving within we enliven these qualities with in. The more we tap into this source the more we integrate it in our lives. We have already everything we need to be happy, wholeness and good because we are wholeness & good as we are, right now.  The regular we are with our meditations, Yoga- practices, the bigger and stronger, the good wolf will be. He will be better equipped to handle life’s challenges. If we choose to feed only him, he will always win.

Keep diving within.

May the Good win in us.

May we Shine like a brilliant sun where ever we go.