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Recycle and Repeat
Lessons we can learn from our skin and its innate process.
Have you ever stopped and thought your skin is one big analogy for life itself? It amazes me how much of our individual biology right down to our largest organ, our skin, is a representation of the larger world around us. Everything must recycle itself. Think about it. Our skin is constantly popping up with dead skin cells to make space for new cells, who are dying for their turn to shine. They are driven by an intuitive sense of a biological process that all of us go through. In a way we are like a tiny factory that is constantly regenerating its workers. Our body knows when it is time for a rebirth, and hums along as it it follows this process every day, minute, and second.
Many of us are accepting of this process when it comes to our skin. Maybe because it is a visible process that we actively try to stay on top of by exfoliating away the dried up cells and nourishing the new supple ones. Yet in our minds we try to go against this law of nature. Everything must recycle itself. I once heard a quote that pain is something we cannot control but suffering is a choice. I am from that school of thought. If we allowed our minds to recycle away old stories we are telling ourselves to make space for new ones then maybe we wouldn’t suffer as much. Who knows? I’ve been through my fair share of gut-wrenching experiences that when I…
