I like the question, “How do I want to feel?” In order to answer I believe it requires knowing how one feels now. Life offers up lots of distractions, along with our “stories” that push our thoughts out of the present. When I’m dancing to those distractions it suggests avoidance of the present. Answer? AAA. Not the road service type, but Awareness, Acceptance, Action. I can recognize that I’m disturbed or distracted. Then accept that that is a fact of my life at present. Then commit to unraveling the wherefore and why of the disturbance to restore myself to actually being present.
AAA… That was a gift from you to me. :) I saw it presented differently this week in an AEON article… I’ll see if I can track it down and link it in comments. IIRC, a psychologist discovered the efficacy and her profession didn’t really want to jump on board with her idea.
Important shifts sometimes move slower than molasses in January?
I always muse about how different the temperature shift feels in autumn as compared to spring. In autumn… 40 degrees feels brutal and in spring it feels glorious. The difference between going into and coming out of winter. :)
I like the question, “How do I want to feel?” In order to answer I believe it requires knowing how one feels now. Life offers up lots of distractions, along with our “stories” that push our thoughts out of the present. When I’m dancing to those distractions it suggests avoidance of the present. Answer? AAA. Not the road service type, but Awareness, Acceptance, Action. I can recognize that I’m disturbed or distracted. Then accept that that is a fact of my life at present. Then commit to unraveling the wherefore and why of the disturbance to restore myself to actually being present.
Then I might discover how I want to feel.
AAA… That was a gift from you to me. :) I saw it presented differently this week in an AEON article… I’ll see if I can track it down and link it in comments. IIRC, a psychologist discovered the efficacy and her profession didn’t really want to jump on board with her idea.
Important shifts sometimes move slower than molasses in January?
I can take 60's and 70's but I don't "feel" good when it is colder!
I always muse about how different the temperature shift feels in autumn as compared to spring. In autumn… 40 degrees feels brutal and in spring it feels glorious. The difference between going into and coming out of winter. :)
I totally agree!
Here it is! face, accept, float, let time pass
https://psyche.co/ideas/one-womans-six-word-mantra-that-has-helped-to-calm-millions