tao of Dana

Break free from the cycle

Of doing the same things and expecting new results!:

Why do we keep on doing the same things and wait for change to come then curse life when nothing changes… or it even declines?

When you think about it rationally, its nuts that we don’t change things yet we expect them all to be changed, you know? And it’s common, whether we can all admit it or not.

Today, I figured we’ll look at some feng shui stuff to break free of the endless cycle of insanity we make for ourselves!

Small example:

I never took iron pills or changed my diet after finding out I was anaemic 5 years ago (I was sure it was just something that would correct itself naturally) and I got so crushed by the lab results six months later that showed I was more anaemic than at the previous visit that you’d think I tried everything I could under the sun and nothing had worked to raise my iron levels. I hadn’t done a thing, except, of course convince myself it would take care of itself.

I really was hysterical, almost hopeless for a good 20 minutes. Am I always going to be this tired? Am I ever going to get rid of these dark circles? Am I always going to feel freezing cold?

It was a whole festival of woes. Until I called a friend, still in total frustration, and she said:

“What the hell did you expect?!”

It was funny. It was so true.

Lost in fantasy

It’s almost like we can get lost in a fantasy mind that if we wish for something enough, it will happen. Not working for it. Not doing everything under the sun to try to fix it. Just wishing.

If you are going along and doing the same jobs, having the same relationships, eating the same foods, doing the same exercises every day… then, weeks and months later, doing all the same things, you start bemoaning your fate that nothing has changed… well…

What did you expect?!

What’s worse is that if you try to change things because you get really frustrated… and decide to do even more of the same things… it can feel like you are sinking, running on a treadmill, working hard, feeling so stuck that it scatters your mind.

You get stuck even in motion. Sinking, like in quicksand. Even though you are doing things and doing them like crazy.

Because… they are the same things. Extra hours at work at the same job. Extra time fighting or being dissatisfied in the same relationship. Extra of the same things that aren’t working!

I see this, I hear this, and I catch myself still doing this… so often it’s mind-boggling.

One of the best things to shake free of this kind of energy stagnation is some old-fashioned simple space clearing.

There is a lot more to it feng shui wise, but, basically, burn some candles with the windows open and breathe for a while. You’ll free up some of the energy stuck in the same-same-same patterns.

Then… determine to do everything under the sun to fix/change/better whatever is wrong! AND DO NEW THINGS!!!

Things won’t change by burying our heads in the sand. They change with courage and confront and doing stuff that’s new!

It’s so easy to say but harder to do…

But I know you can do it.

When you’re used to creating the same things and thinking and doing it the same way it’s hard to break out of the insanity loop. I lived it. I get it. Even though I was doing “new” things they were all essentially the same. And I got the same stagnation. No change. Life like quicksand.

To break free, fresh perspective, awesome ideas, a healthy amount of personal risk and some real work… with passion… it’s life-changing.