mindfulness

When your in a period of depression thoughts of self hatred can occur as  living beings inside of you. That's not much to do about them, they may come from some trauma in the past. Often the feelings are projected on other beings, "you are awful, ugly and fat. Your life is not worth anything" And so on.  Hopefully you don't say those words out load. If you have meditated you can study the thoughts, accept them and and bit later on understand what their source are. We have to remember that the thoughts are our identity - they change and are just a part of us.  Another tactic is too see the sorrow and darkness in other people. Some are trying to get rid of their feelings of loneliness or worries by surfing on the net. Some are talking for hours to not let the dark feelings through.  One trick can be to talk with strangers, maybe just some seconds. Lately I made some complements to colored  bus drivers - just "god music you play" or to a Muslim girl with her

Anna Thorvaldsdottir is an Islandic composer now living in London. She cares for nature and fears the destroying of it... She shows this in her music. Her way if writing it down is special and I guess she needs a long chat with the conductor before a concert. She belongs to a new generation of composers with some distance to the human dance on the Earth. On Island nature still are on the move. Volcanos, hot springs and earthquakes forms the landscape. But the glaciers are melting and one of the is now  declared "dead". When we use a word like "nature" we look at at something outside of us. But that is a wrong view.  We interact with nature - or rather - we are nature. A thinking nature - but not so different from other primates.  Thorvaldsdottir  may help us to see this. You can hear her late music here ;