We carry around our backpack full of stuff with us everywhere we go. If you never turn inward and look at your stuff and give it a chance to process and release, you never unload anything from your backpack. Your stuff just keeps piling up and the load you are carrying gets heavier and heavier.

Find stillness and concentrate. Let the mind turn inward. Let the fire build. Sit in the fire and look at your stuff. Let it come up. Let it process. Let it release. Breathe into it and then breathe it out. This is the work. The more stuff you are holding onto, the more stuff you have pushed down, the more stuff you are carrying around in your backpack, the longer it will take for you to dig yourself out and to unload your backpack.