It's A Cycle

Why do we have these "down" periods in our process? if you were "connected" all the time, you would have no incentive, no push, no angst in order to get out of that. You would be satisfied at the level you are at. When you have this connection "leave" you, you feel the difference between the connected and non connected states, and this really drives you to get back to the "connected" state, pushing you to a deeper level than you were before.

Lawrence Doochin