Yes, I know what you think of me, you never shut up, never shut up, never shut up. Which, what I am feeling could go on like this forever. Welcome to Never Shut Up on your host, Rosecrest, and we are talking about Daisy Dead Petals. I have no idea what this song is about, I'm not gonna lie.
This was a real, well, as Tori still laughingly put it about Garland's, this song was a real mind-fock for me. Because what? What? What?
Is this song really saying? And I honestly, I really don't have an idea. I mean, Ethan and I talked about it and there's this aspect of quick change of putting a costume on. Maybe we're stuck in our superhero era, but then I get drawn to this line of wish what I'm feeling could go on like this forever and the ways that we get addicted and obsessed with staying in those good feeling moments that we conflate, there's that word again, that we conflate feeling good with a positive thing in life, that we equate pleasure with the end all be all.
And in reality, anything that is pleasurable, there is an opposite side to pleasure and that is pain. So anything that is pleasurable, well, a lot of times it eventually disappears or dissipates and becomes painful, like this feeling in this moment that feels really good, it can't go on forever. And maybe that's why Daisy Dead Petals says, Wish what I'm feeling could go on like this forever because it can't, because things change. And this then awakens us to the only constant in life and that constant is change.
Change is the one thing that you can depend on, well, change in taxes and death, but change is the one thing that goes on like this forever. Everything's in a state of flex and we call our aversion to this state of flex that we are in. A bhinni vesha means clinging to life. It is the fear of death and the fear of change.
And it's not just clinging to life, it's clinging to things as they are. Wish what I'm feeling could go on like this forever. So how do we defeat this clinging to life? Well, eventually at one point or another, we all have to defeat it because the beekeeper comes for all of us, but we can practice the feeling of encountering that fear.
The best way to practice that is with long exhales, which calm us down. So you're exhaling, exhaling, exhaling, exhaling, exhaling, exhaling, exhaling, exhaling, exhaling beyond that impulse to inhale. And when you get to the end, stay there in that space of no breath and then allow a softness to happen as the breath flows back in. So we're not gasping for the breath because the reality is that you are made of the stuff of dying stars that this matter that you are made of goes on forever.
It takes different shapes, but this goes on forever. This moment goes on forever. If you really wish that a moment and that what you're feeling could go on like this forever. If you're in the present moment, it does go on forever.
But if you blink, if you think you'll miss it, inhale again, add a nice long, slow exhale. You can make a little sound to increase the length of the exhale, keep going, keep going, keep going. And then again, hang out in that pause. Let yourself be in the space of no breath of nothing, holding, resisting that impulse to grasp at the breath.
And then allow the breath to slowly flow back in to fill you up. And this is a practice you can put into this anyway. We always have the breath if you're sitting in the doctor's office to a little practice. I did today.
And with that, I thank you for joining me and Tori for a little mental yoga. Remember, five minutes a day is so much better than 60 minutes once a week. And I just want to add this practice is the perfect practice to do when you wake up in the middle of the night and you can't go back to sleep. Just focus on that long exhale and you may find yourself waking up a couple of hours later.
See you tomorrow. Bye.