The "dry spot" can be an acute, dramatic, and short-term condition or a subtle, chronic, long-term process. In either case, when we hit the dry spot, not only is the honeymoon over, but we also have little connection with the aspirations that originally brought us to practice. We've lost contact with that "still small voice within" that seeks to be awakened.
As practice takes hold and we learn to cut through our story line, we can learn how to use doubt and distress as an opportunity to go deeper and experience the grief of our unfulfilled dreams. We can learn to rest in, to reside in, the physical experience of doubt itself, instead of following the line of negative thoughts.
— Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water