ENDINGS

I'm not quite sure why an ending needs to be a "bad" thing.  Are you?

Endings make way for beginnings.  In fact!  During my first Yoga Teacher Training, on our very first day we were split up into three groups.  Brahma (beginnings), Vishnu (middle-ings), and Shiva (endings).  We were asked to physically bring ourselves into whatever group we belonged in at that very moment.  

I remember being amazed at how many people didn't know which of these three phases they were currently experiencing.

The thing I embraced at that very moment (as I coincidentally made my way to the "Shiva" group), is that endings are definitely not "bad".  They don't even need to have a negative connotation.  Endings should just be endings.  The end!

There's things in our lives that we come across time and time again that really just are not serving us.  Maybe it's a friendship, romantic relationship, career, even your family.  If there's one thing I've learned in my limited years, it's the fact that every single person/place/thing in your life should be serving it's purpose.  When something is doing more harm than good, it's time to say goodbye.

There's something empowering within that realization.  Mostly because by identifying what's not serving you you're serving and nurturing your authentic self...but even more than that....you're moving toward something greater.  Something that WILL serve you.  

There are some pretty gnarly feelings that go along with endings.  Sometimes guilt, longing, dissapointment, sadness, anger, frustration, confusion.  None of which are necessarily AWESOME to feel.  But feel them anyway, judgement free.

We go through these beginnings, middles, and ends constantly through life.  The cycle alone may actually be one of few constants in life.  When the haze of emotion clears what's left, well, is still YOU.  This amazing force who has the COURAGE to see the light, and make it to the Vishnu. (I've been wanting to say that since I started typing, btw).

This cycle, really is the essence of our life experience.  

In Yoga, we call it Nataraja.   Nataraja is another form of Shiva...lord of the dance.  In this picture he's doing his lil' jig...making way for Brahma.  This is actually my favorite Hindu deity   He's just wrecking shit and dancing all over what once was.  

Why, you ask?

Because he's psyched to embark, always, on the next beginning!