Concepts and practices to consider as we try and navigate the world and improve how we show up.
Try listening generously.
Try listening without judgment
Try listening to understand
Try listening without attachment
Take the judgment, the attachment, and the eagerness to respond out of the equation and see what happens
Try considering the hangover.
Try softening the blow of hurt feelings
Is the argument or action that you are about to sink your teeth into worth it?
Is it worth the emotional hangover that you know you’re going to feel the next day or two?
Just a thought…
Try establishing a relationship with your breath.
Pay attention to your breathing, learn to recognize the various “moods” of the breath
Recognize the gifts of the breath
Life, nourishment, patience, thought before speech, and action VS reaction
Try feeling gratitude for the gift that you ARE breathing and you ARE alive. You ARE a sentient being.
You ARE able to feel, and “see” other people
You ARE a force of nature that has the ability to change course
You can destroy, you can create, you can heal, you can hate, you can love, you can bend or you can break
It is your choice, you ARE the decisive element
Try resting in stillness.
Notice the natural rhythm of your breathing, notice the rise and fall of the abdomen
Let go of controlling your breath, let go and trust your body to do what it knows to do
Modify, mature, and reestablish your breath through observations and subtle reminders of a deep, smooth, even, continuous and quiet breath
Become familiar with that space, that subtle space between inhalation and exhalation and exhalation and inhalation, focus here, rest here, see what’s there, explore the doorway between the microcosm and the macrocosm…Keep breathing
Pay attention. Bringing awareness to your breath reestablishes focus, self-awareness and relaxes the nervous system. Know this
Try reading more and MOVING.
*From the mind of Rolf Gates, dealing with fear is not an intellectual process. Our loops and patterns of fear are neurologically based. Movement and the Breath is the most effective way to deal with the ever-changing, shape-shifting thoughts of a fearful mind by stimulating the vagal nerve and triggering the vagal brake, which in turn calms the nervous system, stills the mind, and makes room for the gifts of the breath ~Inspired by *Yoga Therapy for Fear~ Beth Spindler
Be Brave – Live life and Practice with an ARDENT EFFORT
Be Kind – Align your thought, speech and action –DO NO HARM
Be Still – And notice what’s there, BE KIND AND BE BRAVE IN YOUR DISCOVERY
Be You! The world needs you to BE YOU
Thru soulful eyes 