Mersis is defined as a feeling of imminent death that one is (partly) responsible for, beyond grief, leaving you with and a feeling of nothingness and paralysis. “Mersis is the next-level negative emotional state to be avoided at all costs.”
Instead of avoiding mersis at all costs, this work aims to go in a dialogue with it. The state of the world and the many worries that come along with it weight heavy on both our minds and bodies. Through breath this work allows you to reconnect with your body and examine this weight. By consciously breathing through the feeling of heaviness and paralysis, the work shows that even if Mersis doesn’t go away there is a possibility to live alongside it.
