tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701398972654566371.post-69188079146215002092008-02-15T15:37:00.000-05:002008-02-15T15:38:33.629-05:00<div style="text-align: justify;">I have been feeling flat since Monday. I’ve felt flat since yesterday.  Today I told Sara how I felt and she told me to “snap out of it” as only she can.  I am lucky to have her as my wife.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We all experience ebbs and flows in life. Some mornings you wake up feeling great and some mornings you just want to stay in bed. The idea is to start seeing the constant flowing nature of life. When you truly embody this flow you begin to see that even though you are the flow –you are not. You can see the feelings and the thoughts. There is a dimension of awareness where you can become pretty comical about it. Learning to laugh at yourself can be better than taking yourself so seriously. Instead of saying I am feeling flat you can start saying that there are some flat feelings happening within me. I train myself to look at the feelings as “interesting”. This kind of awareness helps me in not identifying so much with the day to day emotions and thoughts because I know they are short lived. I will feel differently in 5 minutes, one hour, tomorrow morning and on and on. It is the permanent nature of living in an impermanent world.  <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Johnny Gillespienoreply@blogger.com