Trash

“Don’t trash your experience with your mind.” Another of my tantra teacher’s memorable phrases. Regrets after the fact, reassessing what we enjoyed, agreed to, or went along with, may take us nowhere. The deed is done, that ship sailed. If we enjoyed or benefited from the experience, where’s the value in trashing? It’s been hard not to do that after choices I made where my body liked what was happening, yet my onlooking head was shaking in disbelief, or my heart was elsewhere. Sigh. Sometimes we just don’t want yet another ‘lesson’. Courage, mon brave. Keeping shame at bay, owning our agency, perhaps the best we can do is try to be wiser next time.