When you first step onto a path of healing, whether it is to heal yourself or to eventually help others, you arrive at a simple but powerful crossroads:
Do you want to be seen, admired, and followed?
Or do you want to be peaceful, grounded, and quietly strong like a Yogi?
This question may not seem important at first. You may think, “Why not both?” But if you look a little deeper, you will see that these two paths pull in very different directions.
To be popular, you often have to look outward. You share, speak, post, and explain. You show your journey, your insights, your feelings. There is nothing wrong with sharing. It can even be inspiring. But it also has a subtle effect: it keeps you turned outward. Your focus becomes diluted by performance, approval, and response.
On the other hand, to become a true Yogi healer - a source of strength and peace for yourself and others - you must turn inward. You must get to know yourself in silence and stillness. This path takes away attention from being visible. It starts the process of becoming solid inside, steady like a mountain. It enables you to cultivate the kind of peace that does not need to be expressed to be real.
Imagine it like this: when you constantly talk, explain, or try to prove something, you are pouring energy out. And where there is output, there is often ego - wanting to be seen, praised, understood. But when you sit quietly and absorb, when you observe instead of reacting, when you hold your inner experience gently, you begin to fill up with peace.
In the beginning, your most important job is not to explain your journey. It is to live it. To hold the peace you find like water in a delicate cup. If you try to pour it out too soon, before your hand is steady, it will spill. That means: if you are constantly trying to help others before you have helped yourself, or if you are always preparing for the next thing instead of staying present, the peace within you may leak away.
Over time, this can leave you feeling empty. You might start to look for praise, likes, or affirmation from others just to feel whole again. When that does not come, or when it is not enough, frustration sets in. The very peace you were searching for feels further away than ever.
This is the trap many seekers and healers fall into: giving away their energy before they have fully received it. Trying to inspire before they themselves have been truly transformed. Reaching out before they have truly looked in.
There is a gentler, wiser way.
Choose peace first. Choose to sit with your thoughts. To breathe through your discomfort. To feel joy in silence. To stay committed to your own healing without needing an audience. That is the way of the Yogi healer.
When you accept yourself completely, when you allow peace to take root inside you, your presence becomes healing without needing to say a word. That is when people will feel something from you that goes beyond explanation. You will naturally begin to help others, not by teaching or talking or striving, but simply by being.
And if, later, life brings you into the light, into a role where you do share and teach, it will come from a deep reservoir within. Not from a need for attention, but from an overflowing peace that cannot be contained.
Start with silence. Start with presence. That inner peace is the first solid step.
