When We Talk About Mindfulness, We are talking about the alert presence of mind. About bringing that innate awareness we already possess and making it sharper. About paying attention. About practicing wakefulness.
Happiness IS not just one thing. Today, I invite you to think of happiness as a muscle. Apply that muscle-knowledge to enhance this message. If you’ve been exercising that muscle, then you already belong to the happy crowd. I commend you. I respect you. Happiness begins the moment you begin. It also keeps on growing the more you flex it. Nothing to lose. Read with an open mind.
Take my current circumstances for example. Up until a few days ago, people loved me; today I feel that I’m their target. Up until a few days ago, I felt I was so-so, not bad -- an okay Writer. Today I feel like I’m a fraud, a failure. ... I was feeling rotten therefore I saw things muddled through my already muddled lenses. I was a stinking dead fish.
Each of us is good at our core. We come from different walks of life; we know about our rights, justice, and how to set boundaries. We also know that doing good deeds makes us feel good. But did you also know that this feel-good emotion arises from compassion? We all came bearing compassion. But, we lost it? Let me tell you how to get it back.
Us, modern people with smartphones, private jets, and our important, busy lives… Who of us is interested in tanning salons and hot yoga right now? Who of us is feeling impinged upon for having to miss out on monetary gains? Ours was a world that complained too much, stockpiled too much, stepped over those less fortunate, and lived too fast. What a future-less, made-up world we clung on to.
I've been in the company of strangers who became friends almost immediately; friends who were busy and a little lost. Like me, they were out looking to discover what kind of fruit trees they were. Now, I'm here to remind you that sometimes we need to sublimate our fears and go out looking for unfamiliar things in order to find ourselves.
Options, Choices, Decisions and Trials? They are everyday essentials. How are you managing? The decision to become a vampire, or not, has to be one of the most epistemic situations to find yourself in. For starters, you know very little about your possible future as a vampire. Running parallel to that, you are limited when you face a possible future as a vampire. If you want to make the decision by thinking about what your lived-experience would be like if you decided to undergo the experience, then my friend — you have a problem…