In a Moment - Issue 17

Sometimes it's a bad day.

Or week.

Or month.

Sometimes you feel crummy. Or irritated. Or frustrated.

Sometimes there isn't a discernible source to the icky feeling.

There isn't a diagnosable cause.

A fixable solution.

Sometimes it is what it is.

And when that sometimes happens, it can be worth sitting with it.

Not getting sucked in and stuck in the muck of it all.

Rather, notice.

Notice the feelings you are feeling.

Try not to react to the feelings.

Try not to change the feelings.

Try not to push the feelings down.

Or away.

Or out.

Just feel them.

And take a few deep breaths.

Remember that these feelings are not you.

These feelings are things that are happening in your awareness.

These feelings are experiences that are fleeting and will dissolve.

They will melt into other feelings.

And perhaps another feeling will emerge.

Or maybe you'll notice the space that can surround those feelings.

I have been feeling a general sense of irritability lately. And I've been experimenting with experiencing the feeling rather than trying to correct or control it. I've tried not to get caught up in the story behind the why of the feeling and rather just observe. I've found that sitting with the feeling opens my perspective to the shifting nature of feelings. How they can wax and wane. How they evolve. The impermanence of them.

And by sitting and observing, it helps ease some of that ickiness. I find there is less resistance and more space. There is less gripping and more ease. A recognition that it's not forever.

And it makes it a little bit easier to navigate