Balancing Your Dayside & Nightside
Balancing Your Dayside & Nightside
As a Vampyre, it is imperative to find and maintain a healthy balance between your dayside and nightside. A healthy dayside is of paramount importance to be able to handle maintaining a productive vampyre life. So many people who come to the vampyre community and subculture do so as a means to escape their mundane lives… and while vampyre culture can be a wonderful tool to immerse in other worlds for a moment, it’s not a way to escape mundane reality and responsibilities. The most successful vampyres have healthy pragmatic dayside lives that fund and fuel their nightside.
Dayside Mastery
Dayside Mastery is the idea of taking willful action to better your life by practicing your social skills, improving your financial status, and learning psychological methods to help you get ahead in life. Using your words, actions, and energy you can program your mind to help you stay on a positive course, boost your confidence with skill building, manage your financial independence, and conquer other life skills through practice and determination.
The breakdown of Dayside vs. Nightside in relation to vampyric belief comes from the Temple of the Vampire. These concepts have been adopted across the vampyre community through the ToV and Father Sebastiaan’s work. Due to the mainstream(ish) nature of Father Sebastiaan’s work, subsequent VC offshoots have assimilated these themes into what has become a quasi-universal vampyric paradigm. This style of balance is not just necessary for vampyres, it’s a fundamental need to succeed in life regardless of what opposites your mundane life, but this particular Dayside & Nightside framework has become the Vampyre’s lesson for “balance” since the 1990s.
So what is your Dayside & Nightside?
Your Dayside is your pragmatic side. It’s that part of you that works, pays bills & taxes, goes to the grocery store or the bank, takes care of your body, has adult responsibilities, interacts with others, etc.
Your Nightside encompasses the spiritual and astral aspects of vampyric existence. It’s the glamour, the events, the rituals, the hedonism, the indulgence. It’s the fun parts.
Balancing your dayside and nightside is of the utmost importance to be able to live the vampyric life you wish to have. Some call this harmonious balance of the Dayside and nightside “Twilight.” The strongest vampyres emphasize the importance of exercising and mastering their daysides so they have the stable foundation to explore their nightside upon. Adept Vampyres make it a point to maintain their sense of Twilight at all costs, whatever that means to them.
If your dayside is out of whack and you focus too much on the nightside, you won’t live a truly fulfilling life. Attempting to intertwine your dayside and nightside and make it a working sustainable life that nourishes your dayside needs is an arduous path of extreme resistance. (ask me how I know)
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