You don't need to escape

How a daily practice becomes your set reference point - and teaches you to stay with life instead of running from it

Sometimes, when life gets heavy, we think we need to retreat - escape from reality somehow - to feel better. This can take a shape of going on a week(end)-long yoga retreat in the woods, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that - but we can also escape to addictions: alcohol, social media, parties, sex... you name it.

What we don’t often realise when we’re in this escaping state of mind, is that it’s possible to create this space you need right here, on your mat/pillow/bench, through a daily practice.

It’s important to choose your own daily practice that is challenging enough for you.

And the key is to do it every day.

Whether it’s meditation, breath work, yoga, gym, running, praying, somatic exercises... in the same practice, which stays stable over time - i.e. it has roughly the same structure & principles - you start seeing clearly how your mind quality changes daily.

You realise your body, mind & energy always change day to day: the Law of Impermanence in action, discovered & described many thousand years ago by Buddhists in deep meditation.

This realisation is powerful:

By observing your ever-changing inner world, you finally learn how to work with it and lovingly accept its nature, whichever state it is in the moment.

In the end, you realise that the Law applies even beyond your mind & body: nothing’s permanent in this world. By allowing yourself to witness the reality as it is, other things outside of your practice space - world events, changes in someone else’s behaviour, work-related transitions - start getting easier to process as well.

Because you met yourself & learned to work with you on your mat, you become that much more resilient to meet life outside.

You don’t need to escape from it anymore.