Mindfulness Daily Check-In October 21, 2017

Disappointment can be a truly devastating experience. We build hope, expectations and ideas about the future and the goodness that will evolve out of those fruitful, anticipated moments. What to do when our expectations go unfulfilled and we are left with the emotional baggage and heaviness that remains? Disappointment can be as trivial as expectations about the taste of a meal we ordered or the benefit of a yoga class we drove across town for, to more serious experiences like the hope of building a life with someone or that a medical treatment will provide a cure. Whatever the case, when our expectations are unfulfilled--when the food does not taste as rich, when the yoga teacher does not show, when our life with a partner does not work out or when the treatment does not cure--our hope is devastated.

Expectations are part of life and a natural part of our experience as human beings. Hope and the work toward fuifilling hope, is what keeps us alive and thriving. It is what keeps us moving toward a goal in the future and toward goodness and manifestation of our dreams. To not have expectations and hope is to disengage from a great part of our journey.

Mindfulness gives us these tools to manage and sit with discomfort. Disappointment can be hurtful, painful, uncomfortable and even bring up anger. But, it is also a never-ending part of life. It is an opportunity to view things that we encounter with nonjudgment and compassion toward not only ourselves but also life in general. It is an opportunity to unfold to a new experience and awakening of life, one with acceptance and openness rather than criticism and frustration. Mindfulness teaches us tolerance, acceptance, peace and tools for navigating an emotionally volatile world. It teaches us the power of comfort in discomfort and compassion within pain. It softens the hard edges of disappointment and creates a new bud of beauty and growth.

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