The Gift of Confusion
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Kari Doherty: [00:00:00] Thank you for listening to the Luminous Recovery Yoga Podcast, hosted by Kari Doherty. The views and opinions expressed here are strictly those of the person who gave them. Take what you like and leave the rest. These views and opinions do not represent any specific 12 step program, only my experience, strength, and hope in recovering from the dis-ease of addiction and codependency.
If you'd like to learn more, please visit my website at www. Dot Luminous Recovery yoga.com. Hello, my friend. Thank you so much for joining me for the Luminous Recovery Yoga Podcast. My name is Kari, and I'm so happy to be here with you. This is one of my favorite spaces, this virtual, auditory visual space that I've created.
So that I can share recovery and yoga with you. I really believe that yoga and recovery inform each other. As far as my life and my [00:01:00] practices, I have found that yoga has become a way for me to embody my recovery. When I first started recovery, and let me back this up, I personally define recovery as calling your spirit back.
Calling my spirit back. When I think about my life and my experiences, and I think about all of the places the people, places, things, and situations where I have left a piece of my spirit behind the act of recovery is calling my spirit back from those people places and situations where I tend to leave parts of myself.
And when I think about it, there could be parts of me scattered around everywhere in unresolved relationships. In jobs where I left a little piece of my spirit in all types of places, shapes and forms where I didn't have the boundaries, the courage, the words, the even understanding to [00:02:00] know what was really happening for me.
And so I end up leaving my myself behind. So the act of recovery is calling my spirit back and reclaiming myself from those places where I tended to leave myself. So that is what I define recovery as. In this space luminous Recovery Yoga podcast, this is a place for me to combine. The healing modalities of recovery and yoga.
Yoga is a way for me to get to know myself physically. Recovery is a way for me to get to know myself spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. And when I put all of those things together, the physical, the emotional, mental and spiritual, that is where I find embodiment, where I find my whole self present and available 100%.
Our experiences in this lifetime happen through our body. Our body is the vehicle, the vessel for, for how we [00:03:00] get around in the world. And as the creator of Y 12 SR Yoga and 12 step recovery, Nikki Myers says the issues live in our tissues. , all of the things that we experience live in our body, and sometimes those things get trapped.
For instance, when I experience anger, sometimes if I don't get that anger out or allow myself to. Move that energy, that anger gets stuck in my body and for me, that gets stuck in my chest like I can feel when I am packing down the emotions. So 100% of what I go through in this lifetime happens in my body and sometimes those experiences get stuck in the body.
And that is what a practice of yoga has helped me to do. It's helped me to unravel some of the emotions, sensations and feelings that have gotten stuck inside of my [00:04:00] body. And it's given me a way to express those things and that helps and aids in my recovery because it helps me to physically process the things that I go through.
So it's interesting because having had years of both recovery and yoga now under my belt as healing tools, It seems as though I can move through situations and things a little bit faster now, whereas before something used to happen and I would just like pack it in and pack it down, and so it took years to unpack and still am unpacking things that happened a long time ago like that.
That shit just doesn't happen overnight, you know? So when I reflect on this space and why I love creating this podcast. It's because it gives me a space and an opportunity to bring my whole self together, my physical practice with my spiritual, mental, emotional practice. And that is how [00:05:00] I become a fully well-rounded, integrated human.
You know, there are certain spaces in the world where I have to be Kari in this way and Kari in that way, and Kari here and Kari there, but when I come to , this space where I share yoga and recovery, I get to be the full person. I get to be the person who has been affected by the family disease of alcoholism.
I get to be the addict, you know? I get to be the yoga practitioner. I get to be the teacher. All of these different areas of my life where I tend to separate my identities. In this space I get to bring myself fully together. And I think that it's important to have spaces where we can be fully integrated, where we don't have to just separate ourselves based on our profession or our hobbies or family, or these friends or those friends, or when I go and participate in that activity.
Like those are important spaces, but it also is important to have a space where we can be our full whole self [00:06:00] and that is what this space is for me. It's a place where I can bring my whole full self. So I'm really appreciative if you're listening to this or watching this, however you're taking this information in.
I'm so appreciative that you're taking the time to listen because listening has been a huge part of my recovery. When I listen for myself in other people's sharing, it reminds me that I'm not alone because when I come into the idea that I'm alone or that I'm unique or that no one has been through this before, it separates me and
it isolates me when really what I know having spent years in recovery now is that my story is in everyone else's story. So what I'm going through isn't unique. It might be unique to me in some unical small ways, but the reality is humans are humans and we suffer. And that is the root of existence, is that we experience suffering.
And although the [00:07:00] details of my suffering might look different suffering is suffering. So I come to this space, I put my heart out, I, I put my humor out and I share with you, and I share generously. I share, honestly, I share what I have. And I hope that you enjoy this space as much as I do because it is a treat for me to share with you.
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It's one of those things that when I first heard this idea, this concept, it blew my mind because it's very contrary to what I have believed in the past or what I've believed before about this particular topic. So I hope that you get something from this. I hope that it expands your thinking in some new way.
So my topic for today is the gift of confusion. I'm gonna say that again. The gift of confusion. And you might right off the bat be like, Kari, I'm confused. What the hell are you talking about? How is [00:11:00] confusion a gift? And that's a really interesting. Why would confusion be a gift? Why would I be grateful or find gratitude in being confused?
And you know, when I first heard this idea that confusion could be a gift, that confusion can be the information that I'm seeking , it set me free. Like it really set me free because now I know that when I am confused, there is something that I can do with that confusion, aside from one, creating more confusion or two running around like a crazy person trying to force solutions, trying to force answers, and trying to get my
way, because when I force solutions and try to get my way, it generally doesn't turn out the way that I actually wanted or intended for it to do. So in today's episode, I wanna talk about the gift of confusion and how confusion could actually be the answer and the guidance that we're seeking. [00:12:00] So I'll pick one example, for instance
romantic relationships. I heard someone say in a meeting once, wow, there's nothing like a romantic relationship to put miracle grow on all of my character defects. When I'm in a romantic relationship, things tend to get confusing for me. I tend to get jumbled in my thinking. I want things to happen. What does this person think of me?
Do they really like me? Am I ever gonna see them again? I recently told a friend of mine that when I'm dating somebody, I treat every time I see them, like it's gonna be the last time. I have abandonment issues. I think that people aren't gonna come back. That is something that, you know, it like things come out in romantic relationships that don't seem to come out in normal everyday friendships, and that probably just has to do with years of trauma.
Family shit and all the things that happen in a lifetime. So when I'm in a romantic situation, which I'm not right now, thank [00:13:00] goodness, because I just need time to chill. When I'm in a romantic situation, I tend to get really confused. Like there's just so much like, oh, swirling dervish thoughts. Like, who am I?
What am I? Where am I? Does this person like me? Am I going to get married to them and have children or whatever? All the confusion. All the confusion. Another example is that recently I had an anxiety attack . I had things going on in my life, in my head, things I was confused about, and it all culminated to one day where I felt like I could crawl out of my skin.
I was having a full blown anxiety attack. Like I just felt like I was jittering on the inside. Like I could have ripped through the center of my chest and crawled out of my body if I was able to do such a thing like. Like zip off my skin suit and walk out of it. Like that was just how it, like that was the sensation.
And so here I am having this [00:14:00] full blown anxiety attack and in this moment of anxiety, I remembered something that I say to students in yoga, which is notice what you're feeling and notice where you're feeling it. And this kind of come, comes back to what I said at the beginning of this podcast, which is that yoga helps me get in touch with my physical body.
Yoga helps me to feel and understand my physical experience so that I could better process my mind and my emotions. So I'm having this anxiety attack. My thoughts are jumbled. I wanna walk out of my body. And instead what I did is I sat there and I. where those sensations were coming from. Like, where in my body am I experiencing this sensation?
For me, a lot of it was happening in my chest and there was kind of this like buzzing in my head and my stomach felt swirly, and so I sat there [00:15:00] and I felt it, like I just, I focused on the physical sensations of the anxiety. and this, I did this for a little while and then that eventually led me to falling asleep and taking a nap.
And when I woke up I felt completely different. Like it, it, it had passed, which was crazy cuz sometimes when I'm in the midst of anxiety, I think it's, oh my gosh, this is it. It's always gonna be like this. I'm gonna be crazy. My thinking is gonna be nuts and I'm gonna just stay like this forever. But what I have found is that if I can feel it, if I could spend time being with the Sens, That it passes a lot quicker.
Jill Bolte Taylor, one of my favorite neuroscientists and authors. She, by the way, had the very first viral Ted Talk stroke of insight. If you've never watched it, go check it out. She talks about the 90 second rule. She says that emotions and sensations last for 90 seconds. If we're willing to sit there and feel it, the sensation will pass in 90 seconds.
And there's [00:16:00] science to back this up. So what happens is if we don't experience our experience and we pack it down, we don't actually give ourselves the chance to feel it and to experience it. And then that is when it comes out sideways later. At least that's my experience. So anyway, here we are talking about the gift of confusion, and I'm telling you that there are examples out there of when I am in full-blown anxious bodily, fully entangled confus.
So I'm gonna read something to you because I find that sometimes it is really nice to turn to a reading or some literature or something that helps to bring this into a little bit more deeper understanding. So I'm gonna share something from you, with you from Courage to Change, which is an Al-Anon daily reader.
This is one of my favorite books. I highly recommend it, and this is February 14th.
Confusion can be a gift from God. [00:17:00] Looking back on instances when I felt desperately in need of an immediate solution, I can see that often I wasn't ready to act. When I became fully ready, the information I needed was there for the taking. When I know too much about my options before the time is right to exercise those options, I tend to use the information only to drive myself crazy.
That's why today when I am feeling confused, I try to consider it. , it may not yet be time for me to act. I think that dealing with confusion can be like cooking. If the bread isn't done, I don't take it out of the oven and insist that it's time to eat. I let it finish baking. If a clear solution to a problem hasn't shown itself yet, I can trust that it will appear when the time is right.
Today's reminder, I will thank my higher power for whatever I experience today, even if I feel troubled or confused. I know that every experience can offer me a gift. All I [00:18:00] have to do is be willing to look at my situation in the light of gratitude, quote. Everything has its wonders, even darkness, and silence.
And I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content. And that's from Helen Keller. That blows my effing mind. Confusion could be a gift from God. that if the, if the bread isn't ready to come out of the oven, stop insisting on eating dough, right? I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't take the bread out of the oven and eat dough.
I'd be like, Ooh, that's gross. Same thing goes for life situations. Let it cook, let it, let it simmer, and when the time to make a decision is ready, the natural solution will appear. And when I think about my life, when I think about the times in my life when I was confused, it was because I wanted what I wanted and I wanted it now.
And that is really the [00:19:00] confusion. The confusion is that I want something and it's not time to act or I want something and, and more information is needed or more will be revealed. It just might be that the bread isn't done. , and here I am throwing a fit, a tantrum that the bread isn't done, but it's only been in the oven for 30 minutes, you know?
And so when I reflect back on like, you know, romantic experiences where like I really wanted the answers, like, is this gonna work out well? Who fucking knows? Who knows if this is gonna work out, you know, because I want all of the answer to life's questions preemptively ahead of time, light years before it's time to know.
And so I find that when I'm in a state of confusion, it's often because I want to force a solution and there isn't a solution yet, or it's not time to have a solution. It wouldn't even be appropriate to have a solution . And so when I think back to moments where I'm having anxiety, like when I talked about that anxiety attack, it was because I [00:20:00] wanted all of my life's problems solved that day.
And I'm not kidding you. When I think about the things that I was feeling anxious about that day, I wanted answers about my career. I wanted answers about all kinds of things. Things that I just, it, it wasn't the time to act. And so when I think about anxiety and confusion, these experiences that I have in my body, it's often because I want something that it's just not the appropriate time to have, which is generally answers and solutions.
Like if, if I could have my entire life blueprint written out so that I knew what to expect, I feel like that would be so soothing. But then on the other hand, if I had like a pinpointed day that I knew I was gonna die, would I live my life ? You know? So sometimes it's like I want answers to questions that it's possible.
I'm just not ready to know those things. And so when I read this reading, it really just blows my mind. When I know too much about my options before the time is right to [00:21:00] exercise those options, I tend to use the information to drive myself crazy.
So confusion can be a gift. Confusion can let me know that it's not time to act. If I'm confused about something, it's because it's just not time to make a decision. And so really that confusion becomes the answer. And that's something that I have gotten much better at. Now when I feel confused, I'm like, oh, I'm confused because it's just not time.
I want answers to things that there are no answers to yet. I want solutions. I want, I want what's the word I'm looking for? I want, I can't even think of the word I want, but I want, I want solutions. I want resolutions. I want things to feel safe and coz. and I want it now. And when I don't have that, I get agitated.
And that agitation can lead to all kinds of distorted mental states. And those distorted mental states are really [00:22:00] the nature of my disease. It's, it's overthinking. It's demanding behavior. It's, it's rude, it's demanding of God. And when I take the time to ground and center myself and get physically present in my body and experience what I'm experiencing, I find that it's actually not confusing.
Like it's just not time. And sometimes it's like trying to explain life to a toddler, you know? And I'm the toddler and like I want a lollipop and God's. , it's gonna be dinnertime soon. Like you don't get the lollipop. And I'm just like, why? You know? Like it's a tantrum. Oh, guarantees. That was the word I was looking for before.
I want guarantees. I want to know that if I put in X, Y, and Z, that I'm going to get this certain output. And I just don't get to know that. And so when I forget that and I get confused, it's generally because I'm trying to force a. [00:23:00] or I want something to happen and it's not time for it to happen, so.
that's what I wanted to say today. I wanted to talk about the gift of confusion. So you know, here are my questions to you. Like where are you confused in your life right now? And does that confusion, if you were to stop and look at it, is it because you want guarantees, you want some type of outcome, you want it to be some kind of way?
And because you don't have that certainty, there's confusion when really is there confusion or is it just not time to act? And so what is your relationship to confusion? Do you allow it to. You know, create physical states for you. What, what happens for you when you get confused? So these are some questions that will be in that pdf.
So if you want some extra food for thought around confusion and what your relationship to confusion is. Go check out that PDF once you get on my subscriber's list. Every week when I email you, if there's a pdf, you will get that PDF automatically without having to re-sign up. So if you're [00:24:00] already one of my generous, lovely, sweet subscribers, you're gonna get that PDF in this Monday's email.
And this is just extra food for thought for you things to consider about your relationship to confusion, because when this. When this concept of, of confusion can be a gift was given to me, it really opened everything up. And so what I've come to see, and I'll, I'll finish with this. What I've come to see is that confusion is part of the clarity that when I am confused and I can identify that I'm confused, that becomes a part of the.
and so I don't have to figure anything out. There's nothing to figure out. One of the things we say in 12 Step is that figuring it out isn't a step. And I love that because anytime the words I need to figure out come out of my mouth, I stop myself and I'm like if I'm trying to figure something out, it's probably because I'm trying to force a solution or find an answer to something that it is not time to.
and so I now [00:25:00] have the physical experience of, oh, I'm confused. It probably means that I'm trying to figure something out. Something that's not figure outable yet, something that doesn't have enough information to make a sound solid decision. I mean, really think about the last time you were confused about something and then maybe you stopped forcing so hard, maybe you stopped trying so hard, and then eventually down the line that thing worked itself out because it was.
and, and everything happens in God's time. Everything happens in higher power. Creator universe's time, not my time. Certainly, I, I have a preferred timeline and, you know, I'm allowed to have my preferences, but ultimately my preferences hold no y you know holds no bar on reality. Like I am not the one in charge here.
And when I forget, When I forget that I am not the one in charge here, it could generally lead to confusion because I want what I want, when I want it. [00:26:00] So I wonder how this lands for you. What is your relationship to confusion? What do you think about confusion? Do you get confused easily? What is it that's happening?
When you're confused, what do you do in confusion? I know for me, I generally can run around like a, a nut, and then when I realize that I'm confused and I'm trying to force something, that if I just let it be, the answer will work itself out the the right solution will surface. So that's what I have for you today and I hope that you heard something that helps.
I hope that maybe this reorients your relationship to confusion so that you could see confusion as part of the clarity. That confusion is actually a. , it shows us what we're not ready for yet. And that when it is time to act, the next right thing will emerge. The next right thing will [00:27:00] happen. And if you're confused, it's probably because you're trying to force something and that's just a hunch.
I know that's what it is for me. And I know that for me, people are more alike than not. So that's why I share generous generously with you because it's possible that you will hear your story in my story. And that makes us all a little bit more alike than not. So with that being said, now it's time to take this principle to the mat.
What would it feel like? What is the embodied experience of taking recovery principles and then bringing them to the yoga mat so that we can try these things on in our bodies so that we could see what it feels like to Ma Ma maneuver, confus. in our bodies and work through that confusion to let that confusion move through us so that we could get physically present to what's happening right now, which is generally simple.
Usually the most simple answer to my [00:28:00] confusion is, oh, it's just not time, and that is how I can simplify a complicated situation. It's actually much more simple. Than it is. Complicated. Life is complicated and life is complex. But the simplest answer to that is that it's just not time. And that I can be confused, but I don't have to act on that confusion.
So that's what I've got for you today. So with all of that being said, let's take it to. Hello my friend. Welcome back to the episode, and now we take it to the mat for embodied understanding so that we can try these principles on and in 12 step, as we say, we practice these principles in all of our affairs, and in yoga we can say we practice these principles in all of our poses.
So this is a place to try these principles on in the body and see how it. This practice is going to be simple and gentle and guided by our breath. So [00:29:00] if ever at any moment you find like you just need to take it even down a further notch or just lay on your back like you do you, but ultimately conscious contact with the breath.
The breath is a power greater than you and is a power greater than. We only exist on this planet because we are breathing. So with that being said let's begin in supine. Butterfly, come to my down on your back holes, your feet to touch and place your hands on your belly.
And if it's comfortable to you, you can close your eyes or you can settle your gaze to one unmoving point on the. And just keep a low gaze.
Begin to notice your breath.
Notice that you are breathing.[00:30:00]
Notice the sensation of the breath.
And begin to build a relationship with that sound, with that sensation.
And when we get clear on the breath, it can alleviate some confusion about what we're supposed to be doing right now.
Lengthen your legs forward. Take your arms over your head for a full body stretch. Stretch from fingers to toes.
Pull your knees to your [00:31:00] chest. Put one hand on each knee. Make some circles with your low back in the floor. When it feels natural, move in the other direction.
Catch behind your knees. Rock yourself up to.
Come into a simple seat, just one foot in front of the other. Place your hands on your knees. Drop your chin to your chest and pause here a moment. Notice the sensations that you feel by dropping your chin to your chest
and roll your head over to the. Roll your head over to the left and continue to take some neck [00:32:00] rolls from side to side.
Move your head and your neck in any way that feels good to you. It might be fast or slow. You might find a spot where you wanna linger a.
Make these movements your own.
Come back to a neutral chin. Reach your arms up over your head, interlace all 10 fingers. Flip your palms to the ceiling and take a big stretch
and put your hands back on your knees. Start to make some circles with your torso. I like to imagine that I was a spatula scraping the edges of a really big bowl. And if it's comfortable to you to close your eyes, you can do that or you [00:33:00] can keep your eyes open. But allow these movements to feel intuitive and natural, and when it feels good, move in the opposite direction.
Notice where you're feeling sensations. Notice what you're feeling, notice where you're feeling it,
and if there's any confusion around that, let the confusion be okay. Maybe we start to feel comfortable with confusion. Like, oh, okay, this isn't something I have to react to. It's just the is-ness. The reality of the situation,
come back up to neutral. Bring your [00:34:00] left hand to your right knee tent your right fingertips behind you. For a twist, lift the crown of your head up and take a twist. It doesn't have to be your deepest, most expansive twist. Just see how it feels to twist your body.
Come back to the center. Bring your right hand to your left knee tent, your left fingertips behind you and twist to the left.
Gently come back to the center, stretch your right leg forward. Pull your left foot to the inside of your leg, reach your arms up over your head, turn and face your right foot, and then reach for your right foot.[00:35:00]
And it's okay if you can't touch your foot land. Let your hands land wherever they land.
Keep your right hand on your right foot. Reach your left hand to the sky.
And then slowly make your way back up to a seat, and we'll switch sides. Stretch your left leg forward, pull your right foot in, reach your arms up, turn and face your left foot, and then reach your foot.[00:36:00]
Keep your left hand on your left foot. Reach your right hand to the sky.
And slowly come back up to your seat this time, open both of your legs into a V shape. Put your fingertips right in front of you and keep your chest lifted. And check in with how that feels. And if there's a little bit more. Crawl your fingertips a little bit more forward.
Notice what you feel. Notice where you're feeling it. Sometimes it feels good in the pose to rock from side to side or to move around a little bit.[00:37:00]
And slowly make your way back up to a seat, come back to lie down. Put both feet on the floor, lift your hips up and interlace your hands underneath your body. If that does not feel accessible, grip the edges of your mat and draw your shoulder blades in. If you don't have a mat, just let your hands rest by your.
This is bridge pose.
One more big breath
and slowly come down. Keep your left foot on the floor, cross your right ankle over your left knee. You could stay right here and [00:38:00] allow your right knee to sort of drop towards the floor. Or you can pick your foot up off the floor and in place your fingers around the back of your left thigh and give a gentle pull on your thigh towards you.
And this is one of those areas where a little gentle movement from side to side might feel good. Give yourself permission to land exactly as you are to be your.
Keep your ankle on your knee. Return your left foot to the floor if it [00:39:00] wasn't open, drop hips over to the left, look to the right and you might hook your right ankle underneath your left knee for a little more sensation. Or you might just put your foot on the floor. Find what feels good to you.
And then gently make your way back to the center. Put your right foot on the floor and cross your left ankle over your right knee. You can stay right here and allow your knee to naturally sort of fall towards the ground. Or you can pick your foot up, interlace your fingers around your thigh, and give a gentle pull on your thigh towards you.
The sides of the body are different. So notice if [00:40:00] it feels different on this side, then it did on the other, and let that be okay.
Our bodies, much like life is not symmetrical. It is not linear. As much as we'd like to, we are not moving in a straight line.
Keep moving your breath just as it.
And then if it isn't already, return your right foot to the floor, open your arms into a T and drop your knees over to [00:41:00] the right and you could hook your ankle under your knee or put your foot on the floor. Find the sensation that works for you , the sensations that keep you connected to your breath and the present moment.
Slowly come back to the center. putting both feet on the floor and wind shall wipe your knees from side to side.
Stick your feet up to the sky [00:42:00] point and flex your feet. Circle your ankles.
Just let your heels hover over your hip.
Happy baby. Bend your knees, reach for the pinky toe edges of your feet. And if that is not accessible for you today, put your hands right in the crease of your knees and just give a gentle pull on your knees. You could even reach for your shins or something in between your knees or your feet. Take a little movement from side to.
Pull your knees to your chest, give yourself a little squeeze. Hug yourself in
[00:43:00] and come to Savasana. Savasana is our final resting pose. Come to lie down on your. Lift up your shoulders and slide your shoulders underneath you. Allow your feet to just flop out and hang heavy. If it would feel good to put some support under your knees, like a pillow or some blocks, find what works for you.
You do not have to put yourself into a pose, a situation, a relationship, something that leaves you feeling bad in your body.
Find what works for you
and we'll spend just a couple minutes here. Rest. Being silent together,[00:44:00]
easy and simple.[00:45:00]
Take a long, full, deep breath.
And empty it out
and wiggle your fingers and toes. [00:46:00] And circle your ankles and wrists. Take a full body stretch, reach from front to back.
Pull your knees to your chest. Roll over to a comfortable side.
Make your way up to a seat.
Bring your palms to touch at the center of your chest and take this final moment of your practice to notice how you.
You don't have to call it anything or name it. Just notice.[00:47:00]
Draw your thumbs to the center of your forehead, bow your head towards your heart,
and an honor of you and. In this practice that we share, I bow to you and say namaste.
Thank you so much for taking the time to join me for this episode and for this practice. Don't forget to grab your free PDF. Link in the show notes and the description, depending on where you're watching this, just to give you a little extra insight into your relationship to confusion and the possibility of that being a gift.
I hope you had a nice practice and I look forward to seeing you again soon. Thank you for listening to the Luminous Recovery Yoga Podcast. If you'd like to support the show, please consider joining my Patreon or leaving a comment and review. [00:48:00] If you're listening on Apple Podcast, Or YouTube.
