Thank you so much for this beautiful articulation, it gives words to the push-pull energy I've been seeing in myself and others, in meditation and activist circles. (Looking forward to sharing this with those folx.) And thanks for the inquiry! I think I've tried a lot of ways to meet discontent, from "fixing" it with mood-changing music to "solving" it with stomping-around actions. The thing that feels best tho, as silly as it seems to admit: I change my underwear. Because, even if I don't know what move to make yet, it brings me enough of a comfortable fresh restart to step back in for another round.
Day, a huge thank you! What an amazing pragmatic practice that gave me a giggle but also feeling the rightness: when stuck in the ‘figuring it out’ shift the energy even in a small way.
I look for distraction when I feel this discomfort. Trying to figure it out, worrying about the worst case scenarios, reading the news feed, arguing in my head with someone, judging someone, reading the cereal box, and on and on. The endless distractions to pick up and not look at the discomfort. I really like the reframe of longing for spirit and magic. Because I do feel better when I connect with the trees and look at the moon or the stars or do my spiritual practice. Not distraction but connection is what I am longing for puts a new spin when I catch my desire for distraction.
Thank you for the inquiry, Pavini! When I first experience discomfort, I try and change something up, to disrupt the cycle. Maybe change my clothes, take a bath, go outside and sit with the trees, listen to loud, pounding music. In these first few moments of recognition, I still have the ability to try something to address the energy in a helpful way, with discernment. When I try and “ignore” the energy, it takes hold and send me into a place where I focus on the discontentment, and it incapacitates me for a time.
Totally. I am practicing leaning into it first, before trying to shift it. If I dont try and figure out an answer and instead feel the uncomfortable sensations, sometimes (not always) it shifts of its own accord. Other times there is information there.
Thank you so much for this beautiful articulation, it gives words to the push-pull energy I've been seeing in myself and others, in meditation and activist circles. (Looking forward to sharing this with those folx.) And thanks for the inquiry! I think I've tried a lot of ways to meet discontent, from "fixing" it with mood-changing music to "solving" it with stomping-around actions. The thing that feels best tho, as silly as it seems to admit: I change my underwear. Because, even if I don't know what move to make yet, it brings me enough of a comfortable fresh restart to step back in for another round.
Day, a huge thank you! What an amazing pragmatic practice that gave me a giggle but also feeling the rightness: when stuck in the ‘figuring it out’ shift the energy even in a small way.
I look for distraction when I feel this discomfort. Trying to figure it out, worrying about the worst case scenarios, reading the news feed, arguing in my head with someone, judging someone, reading the cereal box, and on and on. The endless distractions to pick up and not look at the discomfort. I really like the reframe of longing for spirit and magic. Because I do feel better when I connect with the trees and look at the moon or the stars or do my spiritual practice. Not distraction but connection is what I am longing for puts a new spin when I catch my desire for distraction.
Thank you for the inquiry, Pavini! When I first experience discomfort, I try and change something up, to disrupt the cycle. Maybe change my clothes, take a bath, go outside and sit with the trees, listen to loud, pounding music. In these first few moments of recognition, I still have the ability to try something to address the energy in a helpful way, with discernment. When I try and “ignore” the energy, it takes hold and send me into a place where I focus on the discontentment, and it incapacitates me for a time.
Totally. I am practicing leaning into it first, before trying to shift it. If I dont try and figure out an answer and instead feel the uncomfortable sensations, sometimes (not always) it shifts of its own accord. Other times there is information there.