I definitely align with micro-moments of awareness that can also be used as anchors in the "real" world, so I've found options like the two-breath practice to be foundational. Thanks for listing all these options to explore!
lovely to receive this in the middle of all the Trump-related newsletters! I was just pondering on why it is that 'we' (the people who want to make the world a better place) always have to do the hard work of trying to understand and help those who are happy to destroy other people, even within their own families, while they don't try to understand or help us. This has been a problem long before Trump! Reading this helps!
And I have to remind myself it comes down to what Proust said in Swann's Way: 'The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them; they can aim at them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them; and an avalanche of miseries and maladies coming, one after another, without interruption into the bosom of a family, will not make it lose faith in either the clemency of its God or the capacity of its physicians.'
No matter what side of the aisle we land on, whatever creed or walk of life, a little compassion and wisdom can go a long way. I'm glad you found helpfulness in the piece!
I definitely align with micro-moments of awareness that can also be used as anchors in the "real" world, so I've found options like the two-breath practice to be foundational. Thanks for listing all these options to explore!
I absolutely hear you. The on-the-go practices can be straight-up miracles at times. Which practices do you use as your anchors in the “real world”?
Yes! My bread-and-butter: breathing and body scans.
lovely to receive this in the middle of all the Trump-related newsletters! I was just pondering on why it is that 'we' (the people who want to make the world a better place) always have to do the hard work of trying to understand and help those who are happy to destroy other people, even within their own families, while they don't try to understand or help us. This has been a problem long before Trump! Reading this helps!
And I have to remind myself it comes down to what Proust said in Swann's Way: 'The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; as it was not they that engendered those beliefs, so they are powerless to destroy them; they can aim at them continual blows of contradiction and disproof without weakening them; and an avalanche of miseries and maladies coming, one after another, without interruption into the bosom of a family, will not make it lose faith in either the clemency of its God or the capacity of its physicians.'
No matter what side of the aisle we land on, whatever creed or walk of life, a little compassion and wisdom can go a long way. I'm glad you found helpfulness in the piece!
EXCELLENT POST. Thanks so much, my friend. I'm going to try some of these out and will report back to you my findings.
Thanks, brother! Let me know how it goes!