🙂 Mostly I feel rested. Of course I’ve got more energy, but I’m also kind of looking forward to things more. To the light, more like. Not so much the world, more the light. And to having something to work on. On myself, like. Maybe a bit of that too.
The first night and the dark
🌑 Mainly, now I know I’m not scared at night, because when I went in I had no idea what to expect, basically. And the first night was probably the most intense. When I woke up – at home or anywhere else I’m used to there’s at least some little light lurking somewhere or something. And here you just have nothing to focus on. Just darkness everywhere. Just nothing. Nothingness and emptiness. It’s strange, but kind of nice too in a way.
Thoughts, silence and perception
🙂 You’ve got loads of space in there. Thoughts come and go. Something comes back, something else leaves again. There’s nothing distracting me. No phone, no light, no clock. Time passes differently there and you realise loads of things. You start noticing yourself more.
DARKNESS THERAPY through my eyes
🌿 DARKNESS THERAPY wasn’t some kind of luxury for me. It was more that I wanted to try it. Until we actually try it, we won’t find out. I didn’t go in with big expectations. More with curiosity about what it would do to me.
The retreat and the process inside
🙂 Fears come up in the dark too. You find out that loads of things are just in your head. Bit by bit you get used to it. You stop dwelling on it. You start taking it as it is. And I found that really interesting.
What the DARK RETREAT gave me
🌿 Above all, the DARK RETREAT gave me calm. It gave me time to think. It gave me the chance to be with myself. And it also showed me that it doesn’t end here. Often it’s actually a kind of new beginning for you. There’s always something to improve and somewhere to move on to.
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