Robyn E Lebron ing our individuality We must remove our individuality from coming in the way of us meeting our spirit Self-Realization: Life of Love, Compassion, Health and Happiness As a creature meant to survive, our survival instincts run our life Our bodily needs, likes, wants, desires, appetites, fears, dislikes, aversions, and urges, including any inferiority, helplessness, or superiority complexes drive our behavior in life Many have no idea of our thinking and feeling faculties and none whatsoever of our spiritual truth Our instinctive life is mostly autonomic, self-centered, lacking connections with others and marked by instinctive fight or flight We lack feeling, we lack love, and we lack compassion The realization that we have a heart, a head, a faculty of intuition, and the spark of the divine in addition to the body, senses, and ego brings a sense of balance in our lives Our self-centeredness is now mediated by the spirit We start thinking of others We start feeling selfless love and compassion for others New and creative ideas start popping in our heads without making any conscious effort Thus, we enter into union through That One with the un-manifest Self-realization is the gateway to this Integral Yoga(34): union with the entirety of existence with the entirety of the self There is no process of human life more meaningful than that of integral yoga 84