Cultivating an attitude of gratitude with whatever shows up in our lives is a great way to loosen the grip of anxiety on our minds and hearts.
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Meditation can be a lot like driving. You can use it really effectively in short bursts, to get from point A to point B. But you get a lot further, a lot faster, when you optimize for cruise control conditions.
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What would happen if, for one day, you only said you’d do things that you fully intended to do?
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We live in a 24/7, 365-days-a-year, always-on world; but deep down we are still affected by and connected to the natural turning of the seasons.
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We have such a strong sense of independence ingrained in us.
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As we woke up early this morning to the smell of thick smoke from fires in the San Francisco Bay Area, we were reminded how fragile our existence is. A house is there one moment, and engulfed in flames the next. The assumptions we built our lives on change, without warning. Suddenly, we need to reorganize ourselves to meet challenges we hoped never to encounter.
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It’s overwhelming, trying to keep up with everything: getting work done on deadline; finding the time to get groceries; replying to at least most of the emails that hit your inbox…let alone having an appropriate response to all the craziness going on in the world.
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It’s amazing how many factors there are in shaping how you’re feeling. The food you eat, the people you interact with, whether the train was late or the traffic was light. Pretty much everything you come into contact with has the potential to lighten - or darken - your mood.
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The whirl of September is palpable. The last-ditch efforts for companies to hit their annual goals. The first-ditch efforts for students embarking on new programs. The multi-ditch efforts for all of us to do what we said we’d do at the beginning of the year, before 2017 is over.
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Sometimes the world around us creates the space we need to relax, whether we’re looking for it or not. Like this week, for instance.
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