how impermanence can snap you out of a funk
Some days we just aren’t not feeling it. Some days feel so mundane, like they are just repeating in an endless time loop. Sometimes we feel stuck, unmotivated, lonely, hopeless about the world, faithless about our businesses. Sometimes we forget all the good things that we do have. Our home, our animals, our lovers, our friends, our kids, our families, our books, our crystals, our yoga, our plants, our cars, our cooking, our businesses, our whole lives and everything in them.
On days like these, on days where we forget to be grateful, are feeling down about the world, we can practice impermanence.
It’s not really a specific practice, and can take less than two minutes. But what I do is I think on everything in my life currently - all the people, the places, the animals, myself, my body, even the mundane parts or parts I’m not currently happy with and I remember that it is all impermanent. I remember that I am not on this earth forever, and that this life does not keep going and going and going like sometimes our unconscious mind likes to think it does. So then I remind myself, enjoy it.
This is not supposed to be a sad thing, but merely a remembering. We live infinite lifetimes and never truly die. This we know, but this is our one and only time living this life we have now.
We will never live this exact life ever again. But we will live other lives.
And if you are on a path of self-healing, growth, spirituality - !which you are because you’re here! - then damn this has got to be a great life! You could be a hard-working Chinese man who supports his family and never has time for himself! Think about that.
Honor and cherish yourself, your body, for it is the only one you have that is exactly this way and will ever be this exact way! The animals you have, the people in your life, although their souls are a part of your soul family and you will never have to say goodbye to them, they are in a unique expression of their souls in this life that they won’t be again. Maybe in another life they will incarnate as different beings in different roles in your life. The point is to enjoy the beings in your life now, even the hard times you experience with others that are teaching you things and helping you grow or pushing you to leave your comfort zone, if you dissect them enough.
When you are feeling down and forgetting gratitude about your life, practice impermanence and remember that none of this is forever. So enjoy it now.
So go out and LIVE, and appreciate all the beings, things, practices, jobs, hobbies, experiences, goals, dreams, visions, creations, desires, outdoor adventures in your life. Enjoy it now. Ride the low times, feel the shitty emotions, process and feel everything for without everything there would be no contrast to draw from. Remember there’s a high coming after a low. Lean back into the comfort of your practices or self-soothing techniques and activities.
I heard somewhere that it helps to imagine that before we came here to Earth we were (and still are) infinite beings that could snap our fingers or blink and manifest anything we want within a second. Eventually we would get bored. Bored AF! So we come here where things are not that way, where we have to work for things, and we came here to experience contrast. To feel, to struggle, to grow, to doubt, to cry, to scream, to live, to try, to question, to fail, to wonder, to explore, to feel uncertainty, to not know, to grow, to expand.
This is all impermanent. Don’t let that fact get you down, nothing is ever over, there is no end, there are no goodbyes. But this life you have now is impermanent, so enjoy it now.
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