Healing Loneliness Through Yoga & A Course in Miracles
- Prema Posner
- 14 hours ago
- 2 min read
Loneliness isn’t just the absence of people—it’s the ache of disconnection. From ourselves. From love. From the present moment. Even surrounded by others, we can still feel painfully alone.
But there is a way through. A gentle, powerful path back to wholeness. Yoga and A Course in Miracles (ACIM) offer more than spiritual teachings—they offer a remembrance. Of who you are. Of what you’re made of, of the love that’s never left you.
Yoga: Reconnecting to the Self Within
Yoga invites you back into your body—the place where life lives. As you breathe and move, you begin to notice the subtle ways you’ve abandoned yourself through overthinking, self-judgment, or emotional numbness. Loneliness often grows in the absence of presence.
Through mindful movement, breath, and stillness, yoga becomes a loving ritual of self-return. In the quiet of a forward fold, in the openness of heart-centered poses, we remember: I am here. I belong to this moment. I am enough.
A Course in Miracles: Shifting from Fear to Love
ACIM teaches that a lack of connection to others does not cause loneliness, but by a belief in separation from love itself. The Course gently guides us to see that this belief is simply a thought—one we can choose to lay down.
It offers a radical but healing perspective: You are never truly alone, because you are one with all. Every time you choose love over fear, presence over avoidance, stillness over distraction, you’re choosing to come home.
Practical Ways to Work with Loneliness
Start your day with a few minutes of breath and stillness. Place your hands on your heart and simply be with yourself. Loneliness often eases when we stop running from our own presence.
Practice yoga not to fix yourself, but to feel yourself. Let the mat be a sacred place where you come back into relationship with your breath, body, and soul.
Use ACIM’s simple mantra when loneliness arises: “I am not alone, for Love goes with me wherever I go.”Say it out loud. Repeat it gently. Let it ripple into the places that feel forgotten.
You Are Not Alone
Loneliness loses its grip when we remember our wholeness. Yoga awakens the body. The Course awakens the mind. Together, they soften the walls we’ve built around our hearts.
This is the miracle: Not that the world changes, but that you remember you are loved—right here, right now.
Keep showing up. Keep opening to the quiet comfort within you. You are never as alone as you think.
With love,
Prema
Namaste and big thanks for these inspiring words.