​What does this mean for our everyday lives, and for our ability to resurrect ourselves back from exhaustion and burn out to the vitality and wholeness we are born with?
 
With the passing of days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, and millennia we time-stamp life, and so assume we are moving forward in a linear fashion.
 
Ponder the fact that, every single day we actually go around the sun. The sun does not actually rise in the morning or set in the evening - we move around the sun - day after day, millennia after millennia. It is only our position in relation to the sun, that determines whether we are experiencing Summer, Autumn, Winter or Spring. 
So, if we are cycling around and around the sun, then we continuously move back to the same point, every day. This is a simple truth, but something we don’t stop to reflect on.  As each day passes by, we make it our ‘past’, as we move to the next.

Typically the impetus for making changes to the way we live, comes when we find ourselves reaching a critical point of tension or discomfort in life. Something is not right and often it is our body telling us in clear ways that things are not working – our body tells us change is needed.
 
Where we go wrong however begins right there: instead of making what has come up in the body a point of recognition, we instantly begin coming up with the solution or answer that will solve the problem, or in other words, we go outward first to:

• Join a gym
• Stop eating chocolate
• Eat healthy
• Find a new job
• Start writing to do lists
• Go to bed earlier
• Speak up more… and so on

 
Sound familiar?
 
We know from experience that actually making changes to our lifestyle for a day or two is easy, but when it comes to sustaining the effort, not so. We generally last a short time before we find ourselves falling back into old habits, feeling disheartened and defeated when it comes to our ability to change what we know we need to.
 
In fact, our usual strategy to find the solution or quick fix is actually destined to fail.
 
Why?