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Writer's pictureOrly Miller

Stay In, Don’t Go Out

Updated: Dec 9, 2021




What does it mean to stay in? Staying inside our homes, inside our relationships, inside our bodies, inside the moment. It was so easy before to just go out. The more we can observe our discomfort with staying in and our temptation for going out, the more we can learn about the state of ourselves and our realities. What is uncomfortable here? What do we find it difficult to be with? And what are our sources of pleasure?


Quite a few people I’ve spoken to have reported that they are dreaming more often and more vividly than before. Perhaps this is a cue that we are opening more toward our inward realities. The more we can stay with what’s happening, the more we can surrender and relax into the process, the deeper we can journey through it and the more inner treasure we can excavate .


Emotions, body sensations, thoughts, moods, automatic behaviours, dreams, the words we use can all be precious hints, dots and lines across the maps that lead us to the treasures of our inner worlds. We can choose to keep ignoring these, stay unconscious, carry on as usual, or we can choose to start paying more attention.


In the same way we are beginning to think more about our relationships with the earth and with those around us, we may wish to ask ourselves, what is the state of my relationship to myself? How do I relate to my body? To my pleasure? To my pain? To my emotions? To my mind? To my dreams? To my thoughts? To my desires? What do I find hard? What am I ignoring? What am I continuously working to repress or to hide from myself? And why? What or who are the main focuses of my mind-space and if they were symbols, what or who may they represent?


Asking ourselves these questions, journalling or working through them with someone else is crucial on the path to self discovery. We can’t travel the world right now, but we can travel through our psyches. We can’t explore the outer world, but we can explore the inner world- our bodies and our minds and sometimes that can be just as good, if not better. So even though it may be tempting to go out from yourself, I invite you, when possible, to keep staying in and see what precious treasure might be unearthed.

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