It does not matter what your political conviction is, it is difficult to avoid feeling that we are living in time of chaos, pain and massacre. Many people have said that this is a “dark” time that has made them feel restless and helpless. Many of us think we want to do something, but we don’t know what to do at a big step And We are not sure what to do for ourselves and the people around us. Many people have raised the question of whether meditation, minds and awareness can help us right now. It can be almost known to have almost punishes against such major forces.
If it can’t help us anymore, though, what good would it be?
Before we help us What to doAlthough, brainstorming helps us first How Become. And it looks like we need to start. When times are tough, we need to go back to the square One.
Before helping us what to do, mind -making helps us how to make. This place we need to start.
4 ways of minding can help us now
1. Stay in the body
Especially at the time of great tension and fear, especially at the time of great tension and fear, one of the first aspects of the meditation of the mind -making meditation Grands us in our body. When we take difficult news, either nearby (a dear to cancer) or from afar (such as warning on the Internet or on TV), our relationship with our body can be weakened. It can even feel as if we leave our body. In such a case, free from gravity, our brain begins to run. We are more impressed with our immediate impression of our immediate impression about our surroundings. When our brain is galloping, even with a little closer to our breathing, the feeling of pulling our body on the ground can bring our brain back home.
A phenomenon that takes us so easily, of course, is the media. It’s worth (as many of you have already done) to go on news diet. Oliver Burkeman, Author Meditation for humans-We find the relationship between what we spend in our time and our welfare-we consider us only to focus on digesting the “news”. Nowadays, the news under the guise of social media is designed to activate our emotions to make us aware of the information we know. When we start to leave our body in response to “news”, it is worth returning to our body’s idea, and praising our surroundings. As we see that there is a bird light on a branch, we can absorb different feelings of time: trees and birds are not part of the next news cycle. In terms of keeping things, Burkeman advised the news to be “news related to the news” where you only sink instead of rotating, and what is going wrong as well as what is going wrong. I will add to the mind to engage in reading: reading, listening and watching that is reflective and thoughtful, which can create insights, not only of fear and panic.
2. Relax in awe -inspiring
The basic standard of mind -making – opens us for its natural awareness about the details of the inside and outside, it is another more view of the theory that is not stuck in pursuing every wandering thinking. As a result, we can react less, and take a big sight of space and a long time of time. It is said that this deep kind of awareness is like: If we try, we cannot get rid of it.
Awareness looks at our troubles but it is not anxious itself. It also shows confidence or courage to settle like a mountain, which knows that no matter what, the awareness continues. We can rest in it.
Standing with awareness is not about separate, flawless and carelessness. In fact, this is a awareness that allows us to really feel-allows us to express natural reactions to an unpleasant or uncomfortable object, such as a sharp agomeniak talks about carrying Chinese saws or wooden cheekers into things that help weak people. Awareness looks at our troubles but it is not anxious itself. It also shows confidence or courage to settle like a mountain, which knows that no matter what, the awareness continues. We can rest in it.
3. Feel the surprise of not knowing
When we believe that we know something, our awareness clouds. Fresh feedback is filtered through our default knowledge. Instead, like the Great Zen Masters, Artist Mira Kalman, once Mind -making Partners and writer recently Still life with remorse“Don’t know”. This is the source of his technical process. As he told me in an interview, “At the end of the day or the end of life, everyone ends,” I don’t know what I know. When we allow ourselves to ask what we know, and ashamed of the fixed opinions, we are ashamed of the world of the world.
4. Cultivate sympathy and community
We can also be surprised by the pain and horror of the world, and this is the place where the work is part of. Especially what we do and how we do it is naturally different in terms of conditions. Just as awareness is hereditary, so is the basic warmth of sympathy, our fellow feeling. It can be made unclear, but it exists for all of us.
Just as awareness is hereditary, so is the basic warmth of sympathy, our fellow feeling. It can be made unclear, but it exists for all of us.
When we become ground in our body and rest in awareness, touching this warmth can guide us to what we can really do, where we can have an agency. Don’t know with you a humility that tells us that we cannot fix everything. Since we cannot be sure how matters will come out, we do not stick to some consequences. The great heroes who have faced the causes of the oppressed come from the position, which are ready to plant the seeds in the garden that they can never see or are determined to the crop-as the popular African-American expression is not made.
Whatever we do, one thing we know in the deep fiber of our existence is that we are inevitably connected to others, so there is never a bad place to start the search for society.
