This Again?

Day in, day out. This too shall pass. 

What’s that? 

All of it. 

Sitting in the thick of a transition is not an easy place to be. It’s disorienting, even when the transition is as simple as the season, or even less complicated, breath by breath. 

We live through our moments, and when we feel slow, or broke or down or cold or sick we wonder “when does it end? When will it shift?” Disrputions to our routine can bring upheaval and the sense that perhaps you’ve lost control. 

In the middle of these moments, the knowing that we’re moving closer to light or warmth with each passing second is integral to our survival. No matter the literal season we’re in. Inevitably we always move on, move past feelings of dis-ease, and things pick up again. The grass always gets greener. 

This is one of life’s constant lessons - that it’s all one big circle. 

And that we live in a state of perpetual re-realizing  - life is never learned or done. We are continually moving in cycles and riding waves. As we round the top of a loop, close to the close, we simply start again. Rolling into the beginning, again. Realize again that we are never finished, that we are faced with life happenings that make us feel nervous of joyful or fulfilled or fearful or empty. These are the moments that matter. This is the joy of living, that we are never complete, that we can embrace an encore. That maybe we won’t make the same mistake, or, maybe we will and after the fall, we’ll return stronger for it.

This ability to remember ourselves, to literally put our pieces back together, day in and day out stream us directly in consciousness, into presence. 

Right now, you’re here. So stay. Drop more deeply into the breath. No manipulation, just let it move on its own. Pay attention to the back of the neck lengthening. Pull the chin down and in, feel the tidal rhythm of the breath, the rise and fall of the inhalation and exhalation. Notice where each of them start and stop. Offer attention to the places in the body where it feels stuck, where it feels like you’re holding something, physical or otherwise. Don’t make any judgements, just breathe. Play with the recognition that each inhale and exhale are one, then done. 

Take a moment now, to reconsider that each breath is separate and imagine instead, it is all the same breath. The inhale and exhale become one. The unending wave of your life force, no beginning, no end.