Breathe
Right now, where you are – breathe.
Take a deep breath and imagine a rubber band around your lower ribs and inhale through the entire circumference of your ribcage.
Exhale fully.
Repeat three times.
Take your time.
Resume whatever you were doing and may your day be filled with lots of space.
(photo by Tim Goedhart)
Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors…all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect.
-Sri Nisargadatta
Oh, my personal mind!! It churns and searches for something to latch onto and grasp. If given its preference it would do leaps and bounds into the future every minute of every day. Dear mind you show me the yearning to fix, solve, create, implement, buy, change, and modify.
Experiences stored, memories created and strategies planned off of the information of the personal mind. When the mind is calm, there is space for new experiences, new insight and ways of being with my body, mind and the world.
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Don’t turn away.
Keep your gaze on the bandaged place.
That’s where the light enters you.
-Rumi
Energy extended outward, when intentionally watching, it surges inward and dances in front of me.
The amount of energy produced inside of me exceeds the amount needed to function. It overwhelms me as it comes inside and slowly reduces. I feel the production of energy is too great, and it is apparent that it takes more energy production to be external than is necessary to function internally. It is as if the extraordinary amount of energy I feel desires to extend outwards to release itself. Yet, it seems the desire to reach outwards, in actuality, generates more energy and therefore creates an antithetical loop; exchanging the desire to expel with the reaching out to expel which by its nature, produces more and adds to what was already too much.
The mind reacts to a need for shaking off, letting out, dispelling the excessive production. This need is apparent when trying to bring the energy back in. The body feels restless and responds with a nauseous sensation, a sense of being too plugged in, and receiving too much energy. It is not the unwieldiness or the lack of self-control. It is the production of too much energy driven by habitual ways of being external rather than internal.
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