{"id":99105,"date":"2018-07-25T14:57:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=99105\/"},"modified":"2020-01-14T14:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T19:36:35","slug":"learning-to-turn-duality-into-oneness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/fr\/journal\/learning-to-turn-duality-into-oneness\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Turn Duality Into Oneness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tracee Stanley<\/a> is a meditation teacher teaching at the Wanderlust 108 in Los Angeles<\/a>, Wanderlust Squaw Valley<\/a>, and Wanderlust Whistler<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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We hear it all the time in our community: Life isn’t lived in black and white. Answers don’t always come in yeses and nos; even right and wrong can vary depending on who you’re talking to. Sometimes what most frightens us is what enables us to grow; when we confront our fears<\/a> are we able to move forward. On the mat, we confront both physical and emotional challenges, and learn to push past edges that would otherwise hold us back. That is: the dualities of fear and comfort, or challenge and success, dissipate when we consider them as two sides of the same coin. Duality becomes oneness.<\/p>\n

Meditation teacher Tracee Stanley<\/a> spent a significant part of her formative years on the water. There’s arguably no better place in the world to explore the concept of duality as oneness than the ocean; it’s impossible to stand at the edge of the ocean and not feel at once overwhelmed by the mighty strength of the waves and calmed by their motion. \u00ab\u00a0The ocean is my happy place!\u00a0\u00bb says Tracee, \u00ab\u00a0But it also represented immense fear. I almost drowned once and I had a fear of waves and being in the open ocean.\u00a0\u00bb Rather than allowing herself to stymy in the black and white conviction that she was afraid, however, Tracee decided to move into that shade of grey and learn how to stand-up paddle.<\/p>\n