The mountain

A spiritual short story I made as a project for my yoga class in my sophomore year of high school, it deals with overcoming and understanding each individual chakra in a very literal sense. I was hopeful that I could faithfully portray every individual Chakra in not only its physical attributes but its metaphysical ones that the protagonist has to understand and adapt himself to. Chakras are not something that you overcome, they aren't roadblocks, you are the roadblock. This was something I wrote at a time where self-harm and depression were a daily struggle, even though this story itself does not deal with these aspects of life, it is something I wrote (partly as a school project) but partly as a coping mechanism to internalize all the lessons I had learned from the past year. One of those being that the greatest threat you can ever face is looking right back at you in a mirror.