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John Durrant's avatar

The body keeps the score as they say and our day to day existence creates endless opportunities to add to the score. My own catharsis process has been a practice of extended fasting, 5 - 7 days, four times a year to coincide with the solstices/equinoxes. The physical process of allowing my body to heal and repair seems to have a refreshing and rejuvenating effect on my mind too, without any special intent, it just seems like a natural pause of mind and body that brings things to the surface and helps me to integrate my experiences.

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Zoé's avatar

It's very encouraging to read what you wrote about feeling ''wasted days'' and Saturdays not going to plan when a healing process takes over. It really helps me identify, understand and accept similar patterns in my life. Thank you!

I see how striving and being able to crush it is not necessarily more ''advanced'', spiritually or humanly, than letting go of plans and letting healing happen while cultivating inner stillness, even though it's hard on my ego to accept it.

I still want to be striving and I still catch myself mentally valuing it, because a big part of me still perceives this attitude as my primary source of safety, even though through meditation I've seen how this is not fundamentally stable or real safety. So, reading someone else go through these changes and reflexions really helps. :)

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