Reframing Uncertainty

During a guided breathwork meditation, I had the opportunity to travel into my thoughts whilst silencing my anxiety and greet my concerns about the future, amicably.

That is because my breath gives me power. Just like your breath gives you power. It gives you energy. 

Without breath flowing through you, your feelings get trapped, stay stagnant, within your body because there is no release. Coming back to my breath empowers me to have my emotions flow through my mind and be greeted as they are, and flow out with my breath, letting go of feelings of discomfort that come come along with them.

This mindfulness in my breath enables me to purify my thoughts so that I can confront them head on, as they are, not as I often perceive them to be. 

A thought that kept coming up during the meditation was the feeling of uncertainty. More often than not, along with uncertainty comes an enormous wave of anxiety. I believe this is because security in our future calms us down, and uncertainty cannot provide this sense of security. But what if it could? What if we reframed our experience of uncertainty to remind us of security?

What if we were able to rewire our brains to welcome this feeling of uncertainty, meet it with open arms, rather than allow it to control our thoughts and emotions?

Maybe then we would feel truly secure about the situation we are in today, and any similar situation that could occur in the future.

As these questions entered my mind, I instantly began to scan my body for the answer.

How can I find security in uncertainty? 

I think that one way we could view uncertainty is as a constant. We need to remind ourselves that uncertainty is constant, and besides that, there really is no other real constant in our lives. The truth is, everything is uncertain to an extent. We need to find closure in the fact that being fluid and flexible will allow us to travel through uncertainty and feel secure. 

Repeat to yourself, “this is just uncertainty and my task is to tolerate it.”

There is no need to always unpack it or attack it to make sense of it all, just tolerate the feeling. Let the feeling of uncertainty sit with you, greet it like a friend, and allow it to contribute to the sense of security that you so deeply crave.