Seeing Through the Shape You Call ‘You’

What If You Could See Through It?

We are so convinced by our shape, our voice, our emotions, our passing moods. We take them as truth. We believe that the way we feel, think, and react is simply how things are.

But what if you could see through it?

What if you could notice the boundlessness behind all forms? To realise that everything arising in your experience is not fixed, but fluid, arriving and dissolving, moment by moment. To see that you are not as solid or as defined as you have believed yourself to be.

What if you’ve mistaken your body for who you are? The shape that you believe defines you.. your sorrows, traumas, and even your achievements has been held for so long that it feels like your very identity. And then, without realising, you begin to mirror these internal shapes all around you. You create a reality that matches your beliefs about yourself, whether it is a happy one or a deeply constricted one. The world reflects your inner posture, confirming what you already hold to be true.

Even the way you love, and the way you hate, can become constriction. Your likes and dislikes, the preferences you protect, the ways you grasp or resist.. these are boundaries you create, believing they keep you safe, when they often keep you small.

If you take as fact only what you see with your eyes, and not the deeper vibrational reality that manifests moment to moment, you will continue to live within a fragment of reality... a fragment that matches the shape of your constrictions. You will keep recreating the same stories, the same struggles, the same limitations, believing this is all there is.

But there is another way.

A way of finding fluidity within yourself. A way of seeing reality as it truly is, without the hard edges you once assumed were unchangeable. A way of finding space where you thought there was none, and softening even in moments of crisis and constriction.

Because when you begin to witness something beyond what we collectively assume to be this solid, physical reality, something opens. You stop taking every thought and emotion as ultimate. You begin to notice the quiet presence beneath it all, the living spaciousness that allows you to meet life with more openness.

In this spaciousness, as forms continue to arise and dissolve, you discover the possibility of living with less resistance and more trust. You find a freedom that does not reject life, but allows you to move with it, seeing through the temporary without denying its beauty.

What if you could see through it?

You might discover that you are less rigid than you thought. You might discover that life is more alive, more generous, and more spacious than you have ever allowed yourself to see.

How do we begin to find this boundlessness?

There is no single path. Life meets each of us in the unique shape we are ready to soften, guiding us back to what is real. Yet there are a few pathways that often open this recognition:

1. Through the path of energy and embodiment

One pathway is the awakening of the energy within. As Muktananda shares in Play of Consciousness, the Kundalini, the intelligent, evolutionary force within, rises through the central channel, the Sushumna, aligning the inner currents and refining perception.

This is not merely an energetic event but a spiritual unfolding, as the life force moves from duality toward unity, bringing moments of vastness, spaciousness, and quiet freedom. In this process, you begin to experience yourself not as a fixed, solid identity but as the spaciousness in which energy moves. You discover you are the current of Life itself, and this recognition softens constriction and reveals the quiet, living presence that is always here.

2. Through the heart’s devotion

Another pathway is the sincerity of devotion, where love for the Divine, for Truth, or for what is most real becomes so total that the separation between the one who longs and what is longed for begins to dissolve.

As Sadhguru shares, “Devotion is the sweetest way to dissolve the boundaries of who you are.” Devotion is not an escape but a willingness to give yourself so fully to the Divine that the subject and object collapse. In this collapse, the emptiness of all forms and the spacious love that underlies reality begins to reveal itself, bringing a quiet, living joy that is not dependent on conditions.

3. Through meditation and the natural mind

A third pathway is learning to rest in open awareness, noticing thoughts and sensations arise and dissolve without grasping or resisting. Over time, you begin to realise you are not the contents of your mind but the vast awareness in which all arises and dissolves.

In The Wonders of the Natural Mind, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche speaks of the “natural state” as the luminous, boundless awareness always present beneath the movement of thoughts and emotions. This natural mind is not something you need to create but something you discover by relaxing effort and resting in presence. As you remain present without distraction and without clinging, the quiet, clear sky beneath the weather of your mind begins to reveal itself.

There are many ways this boundlessness can reveal itself.. through the movement of energy, the devotion of the heart, or the spaciousness of meditation.. and infinite combination of all of them each precisely shaped for your unique unfolding. Life, in its generosity, will always find a way to meet you where you are and open what is ready to open.

What is asked of you is not perfection, but a willingness to be met. A readiness to soften the edges, to sit in the silence, to love what is True, and to allow Life to move you from within.

Reflection

What shapes have you believed to be “you” that may simply be patterns you’ve carried?

I’d love to hear what this brings up for you. Let me know in the comments, or pause and reflect in your journal today.