Discovering Your Soul Signature by Desai Panache

Author:Desai, Panache [Desai, Panache]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9559-6
Publisher: Random House Inc.
Published: 2014-04-29T06:00:00+00:00

DAY 16 Roller Coaster

MORNING

News flash: Life is not going to stop happening. Not for an hour, not for a minute, not for a nanosecond. The more we try to control life, the more life closes around us, like one of those impossible Chinese finger puzzles—the more we struggle and try to pull our fingers out, the tighter it gets.

Just about halfway through the Density Detox, you may find that you are beginning to meet life with a new sense of grace and ease. Think of a roller coaster. Do you know how, in an amusement park, you’ll see two types of people who ride the roller coaster? First there’s the type who holds the railing so tightly that her knuckles turn white, her face a contorted mask of terror. And then there’s her friend riding next to her—probably the one who convinced her to get on the contraption to begin with—who is shrieking with joy, palms open, high up in the air, face flushed with freedom and an almost childlike euphoria.

Choose. Which one do you want to be? How do you want to feel on the roller coaster of life? Do you want to spend your time on earth petrified and shut down, or do you want to have your hands open, squeezing out every bit of juice? Imagine: At the end of your life, which way would you like to have lived?

I’m not suggesting that it’s going to be easy. The roller coaster is full of peaks and valleys, of course. As life continues to happen, it brings with it a myriad of feelings—fear, anger, frustration, loss, grief, as well as contentment, peace, joy, and the deepest love. The true skill when it comes to riding the roller coaster has to do with maintaining a sense of openness to life as it’s happening, instead of trying to control the uncontrollable. How do you do this? By allowing. Remember, fear is an energy that we can allow to run through us.

The fear of the adventure on the roller coaster is worse than anything that might actually happen. Fear exaggerates. That’s its natural tendency. But no matter how life twists and turns, no matter what the speed, if we maintain that openness, we can keep a sense of peace in the midst of it. A young woman I know was stopped at a traffic light in a tiny car—a Mini Cooper—when she was rear-ended by a city bus going fifty miles an hour. Her car was completely wrecked, and yet she opened the door and walked away with no injuries. Later, she told me that at the moment of impact, her body went limp. She just completely … let go. We all know what would have happened if she had tensed up. Every bone in her body would have been broken.

If we find ourselves in a state of contraction, then the fear becomes dense—it has nowhere to go. It fills us up and consumes us without our even knowing it. But we can learn to take my young friend’s posture into life, into everything in life.

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