Vrtti's: Memory or Smrti

As we delve into the fith and final vrtti, smrti or memory, let us consider the way in which we insperience an experience and how it is different for everyone. Whether a memory is pleasant or unpleasant, or fluctuates between the two, it still carries with it a flavor. It might leave a refreshing mint aftertaste or a pungent one, two, punch of a garlic, onion combo. Regardless of its pleasantries, that memory stamp, was also influenced by whatever narrative was playing in your mind when it was recorded. So memories are subject to the glasses you were wearing then and the ones you are wearing now.

Memories tend to hold a whole lot of power. They have the ability to romanticize or wreak havoc, on a particular happening or relationship. I can remember the same prom night as a wild, passionate, fun-fueled evening, or an out of control, too drunk, crying miserably in the street evening. I can remember my dad as a wise, generous, and integrous man, and two stories later, he is so clearly an insensitive, know it all, bully. 

Just like the rest of our lives, memories must be managed and if you assign management to your co-worker, or to your twenty year old self, or to your anxiety, the memories will manage you. When I am being managed by my memories is when I am suffering. It’s when I make choices out of fear, it’s when I stifle my voice, it’s when I quiet my laugh, it’s when I don’t make the leap, it’s when I believe those who tell me the sky is the limit….oh hell no, I can’t hear you unless you are telling me there is NO limit.

We must decide to take our own reigns. We must decide that we will no longer wait to be hired by some faceless manager to manage the business of our lives. Today is the day to create our own corporation, one of which contracts memory as a muscle to be used for the force of good, for the greatness of your life depends upon it.

Muchas Gracias amigos,

All we have to do is decide that no one else is going to drive our lives for us. When we can really step into that empowerment than we get to truly learn about what unconscious thoughts, beliefs, and actions are the causes of our very own suffering. Yes, we will all experience great pain, and loss, and grief, however, these all pass relatively quickly when we really know ourselves and know how to process our feelings. It’s our suffering that haunts us. Our suffering is when we refuse to allow the pain and the loss and the grief to fully feel themselves through. Only then are we available to feel the joy and the happy and the excitement for this absolute miracle that is this life. My life, your life, this planets life, and beyond.

Love and Blessings,

Andrea Dawn