{"id":2402,"date":"2018-05-29T21:41:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T21:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brittanypolicastro.com\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2018-05-30T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T19:34:25","slug":"full-moon-and-new-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brittanypolicastro.com\/2018\/05\/29\/full-moon-and-new-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon and New Skin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">I&#8217;m just going to say it. This past week kicked my ass.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s kind of unfair to for me to blame it on the week. Or even the full moon like I&#8217;m basically about to do.<\/p>\n<p>Spiritual peeps love to do that kind of shit. It&#8217;s the moon. It&#8217;s the atmosphere. It&#8217;s the mercury retrograde.<\/p>\n<p>Nope not really. It&#8217;s me.<\/p>\n<p>Sure I&#8217;m going to tell you that right now the full moon is in Sagittarius and according to this fabulous <a href=\"http:\/\/foreverconscious.com\/intuitive-astrology-may-full-moon-2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article from forever conscious<\/a> is calling us to birth a new perspective and a new way of being. It&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>And yes it totally freaked me out when I read this just yesterday after going through exactly that all week.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been calling it new skin. Because that&#8217;s what it feels like.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Like all of a sudden I have stepped into this new skin but it doesn&#8217;t quite fit and it hurts like hell and it&#8217;s SO uncomfortable but I can&#8217;t take it off because well its my new skin so I just need to walk around in it and live my life and wait for it to feel familiar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me get a bit more specific.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I came into some new information about how I deal with my very BIG emotions.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of my therapist and some deep talks with my partners last week I discovered that I don&#8217;t actually sit with them.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I process the shit out of them, pour them onto those special ones (specifically my partners) and try to move them around all in an attempt to not actually feel them.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I began to see some habits and patterns that no longer serve me. Patterns that are rooted in insecurity and fear, craving and attachment.<\/p>\n<p>So slowly I&#8217;ve been watching these patterns. I&#8217;ve been breathing into the discomfort of creating new neural pathways by simply choosing not to react as I usually do.<\/p>\n<p>And let me tell you it&#8217;s tough.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve doubted myself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve questioned if I&#8217;m &#8220;doing it right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve felt empowered and fierce and aligned.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve felt horribly misaligned.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve stepped up and showed up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken a few steps back.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve cried.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve felt really shitty.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve felt amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering and Attachment.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s basically what it all comes down to, which just so happened to be the theme of the yoga class I took on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher spoke about Buddha&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zen-buddhism.net\/buddhist-principles\/four-noble-truths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four Noble Truths<\/a> and how hard it is for us to sit with our suffering instead of avoiding it.<\/p>\n<p>And how our suffering comes from that which we are attached to- our desires.<\/p>\n<p>And how we need to connect with our desires and practice non-attachment to them which, let me just say, was EXACTLY what I had been doing all week leading up to this class.<\/p>\n<p>My mind was a little blown. It felt like the Universe was saying, I see you. I know what you are doing. Keep going. Don&#8217;t give up.<\/p>\n<p>Pep talks from the Universe are the best.<\/p>\n<p>I think we get them all of the time but unfortunately are too busy suffering and attaching to see them.<\/p>\n<p>And now we are in this full moon that is giving us support in looking at our life through a new lens.<\/p>\n<p>So let me ask you&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">What is your life asking you to SEE right now? What new experiences, new ways of being are longing to be birthed through you? What have you been resisting?\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m not the only one feeling this.<\/p>\n<p>I know some of you are feeling it too.<\/p>\n<p>For me it feels like the time is now.<\/p>\n<p>But guess what. The time is always NOW.<\/p>\n<p>So get present and go live it.<\/p>\n<p>And let me know all about it in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/static.leadpages.net\/leadboxes\/current\/embed.js\" async defer><\/script> <script>window.addEventListener('LPLeadboxesReady',function(){LPLeadboxes.addDelayedLeadbox('UoGtUaBL3cMg7u5rDGaGna',{delay:'60s',views:0,dontShowFor:'0d',domain:'beyondasana.lpages.co'});});<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just going to say it. This past week kicked my ass.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s kind of unfair to for me to blame it on the week. Or even the full moon like I&#8217;m basically about to do. 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