Aspiring towards 86,400 deaths per day

Have you ever heard someone say, "I wish I was dead" when facing difficulties they think they cannot overcome? I have died millions of deaths. It need not be a goal. The "big one" is actually guaranteed. No need to strive towards it, it is always on its way. No need to hurry.

And still, there are the tiny deaths. Moment by moment by moment, the person that was, dies. In each moment, someone else, slightly different is born again. This happens over and over, 86,400 times in each day.

Many people fail to realize this. They hold on to the difficulties and pains of all their accumulated moments. They drag them along, hoping somehow that carrying all of them will somehow provide an answer somewhere down the line. Instead, the weight exhausts them.

They do not realize that they could put down the accumulations of the past, leave them there, and walk away. This is not easy, but it is possible.

Each moment you die. The next moment you are reborn. I died just now.

Hello new me.

"Oops I did it again!"

Hello new me.

I died.

How about you?

Mike Arsenault is an acupuncturist and Founder of Emily Skin Soothers, Inc --a company dedicated to creating natural herbal skin care products (www.emilyskinsoothers.com). His purpose and daily goal is to help people live healthy, balanced lives and to wake up to the beauty and promise of every moment.