mindfulness

Many of us feel like as we are stuck in a hole. It can be a trauma from the childhood,  or maybe we been hurt as adults. A common way is to distract our selves so we don't have to be reminded of it. It can be shopping, alcohol, destructive sex, it can be looking for fame. The trouble is that it can be addictive. We can be caught in a bahviour. Often it is better to have a look at the feelings, it can be loneliness, sadness, anger,despair.... (if it is even deeper feelings it's better to first go a a doctor) It's okay t have those feeling,  just breath with the feeling and let them be there, if you not are too tired or stressed you can take care of them. If you now what will trigger the feeling try to stay away from it.... there are so many thing out here that will trigger feelings as scariness - on the net, on the TV, in certain newspapers. I have no TV and  read serious newspapers. The net is more difficult. It can be addictive too. maybe he five mkindf...

just be with the nature - watch, for instance, the shadows of the grass                              try too look at the man as nature too music brian eno

Maybe the answer can be - both.... If you look for the word at Wikipedia, you will find the word in two versions, in a Buddhist and in a secular context. But if you have the vision that everything is interconnected, they are of course connected. Both Dalai Lama and Thich Nhath Hanh  has tried, with varied success, to combine both contexts. The problem is that, science won't take thing for true until they prove and even then the scientist has to be open for changes or admit that we don't really understand certain phenomena. While religion has another agenda; to look for security, salvation and often company. Some ceremonies and traditions also strengthen the belief and the group. The more complicated, the better. In a new world, with big challenges we probably need  both contexts. Science can't make meaning and religion can hardly  make progress in thought and behavior. Sometimes religion seems to go hand in hand though, and that seems to be the case in th...

Why not lay down in a park or in a forest. Just listen to the leaves waving and the birds singing. Life can be as simple as that.  If we can enjoy these moments, we don't  have tobe rich and don't have to have other people around all the time. This Earth is a sacred beauty. And we are a part of the planet and of the whole universe.  Be open to yourself, to your fears and your thoughts, even the unpleasant ones. Nature will soothe them.... And when thoughts leave, just concentrate on the breath and then on the scenery...

Perhaps you have had to meet some of your own sorrow or the sadness in the world before you want to start with mindfulness. But that can make you eager for some meditation. Nick Drake didn't have the strength to go on for so long. But he gave us some lovely music. Here is one of his song interpreted by MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO  A women that for sure has seen some sorrowfulness but fortunately has been able to cope with it. If you want to help the world, you better stay as strong as you can, like a tree in the wind. The branches and the leaves can move quickly - but the roots should stay solid.

Is it this that we are longing for? In The Karamazov Brothers , the novel by Dostoevsky, the author lets one of the brothers tell the story of The Grand inquisitor;  It's long ago in Spain. the old man tells about when Jesus suddenly appears in Seville. The inquisitor sets Jesus in prison and says to him that people don't want the freedom that Jesus provides, they just want wonders, mysteries and authorizes to obey... The youngest brother, Alyosha, listens to this, as the very intellectual and skeptic Ivan tells the story. Ivan can't accept the earth as it is, with all this murders, even of children. When he walks away Alyosha sees that one of Ivan's shoulders hangs down a little... It is as Dostoevsky wants to tell that intellectual understanding is not enough. In the book Alyosha learns that it's necessary to love the earth as it is - even if it isn't logical acceptably But freedom in the heart is also necessary - Dostoevsky never learnt to like ...

If you live in a green and friendly place you can open the door to the balcony to be mindful. You can just sit, listen to the wind, looking at the leaves dancing and the birds flying. When the thoughts start to wander you just say "hello" to them and then "goodbye". The music is made by Brian Eno.