Actress and yoga instructor Maxene Magalona believes that self-sufficiency should be observed to live a truly healthy life, especially as an adult.
“I cannot stress this enough. As adults, we all need to learn how to be self-sufficient human beings. To be self-sufficient, we must learn to develop the skills we need in order to be emotionally [and] intellectually independent,” she said via her Instagram page today, Feb. 17, sharing two photos of her meditation rituals.
While she thinks there’s nothing wrong in “being babied and treated with so much (sometimes too much) protection” when we were young, Magalona feels that this may explain why some of us become unable to cope with the negatives later in life.
“[In] exchange for this kind of treatment from our primary caregivers, we didn’t get the chance to learn how to deal with negative emotions such as fear, pain and anxiety. Our families [and] relationships become codependent [and] unhealthy as we want to keep relying on others for our own safety and protection,” she stressed.
And while she appreciates how she was raised, she believes that what parents want is just the best for their children. But as an adult, Magalona learned that life is not a walk in the park.
“I realized that I get fearful and anxious [because] I never really learned how to go through negative emotions. As a society, we have been conditioned to cling on to only the positive and bright side of life while denying its shadows and darkness,” she said.
“This is nobody’s fault,” she added. “This is just how the world naturally evolved into. Now, I am simply sharing what I’ve learned so far in my personal journey so that I can hopefully help and encourage those of you who want to learn how to handle the ‘dark’ side of life.”
One lesson is meditation which she said “is one of the tools that you can practice everyday so that you can learn how to process things like uncomfortable feelings, unhealthy thinking patterns and toxic traits and habits.”
“This is how we can all reprogram and rewire ourselves so that no matter what we learned and experienced in the past as kids, we can consciously choose to become the best adults that we can be in the present…” Magalona said. JB
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