I've been waking anxious,
and the closer it gets to morning, the more round and round my mind is
uselessly going, with concerns.
Sometimes when this happens, I close my eyes and picture someone literally spinning round in a circle til they fall over, dizzy. Makes me laugh.
So last night I sat just before bed and read the Thich Nhat Hanh pages, just two. Not too many words . Breathing vigorous inhale and exhale as I read, vigorously pushing the outbreath out. Beginning with:
Breathing in, I know I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.
This morning when I woke, the anxiety, about our challenges here (like all challenges everywhere), was less. Markedly. Wow.
I lay on my bed and found a Jon Kabot Zinn Mindscape video on YouTube, lay down instead of the advised sitting up, and listened.
I dropped off and woke back up, my mind wandered and came back , and when it was over, I felt so much better. Funny thing, these tools.
Sometimes when this happens, I close my eyes and picture someone literally spinning round in a circle til they fall over, dizzy. Makes me laugh.
So last night I sat just before bed and read the Thich Nhat Hanh pages, just two. Not too many words . Breathing vigorous inhale and exhale as I read, vigorously pushing the outbreath out. Beginning with:
Breathing in, I know I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.
This morning when I woke, the anxiety, about our challenges here (like all challenges everywhere), was less. Markedly. Wow.
I lay on my bed and found a Jon Kabot Zinn Mindscape video on YouTube, lay down instead of the advised sitting up, and listened.
I dropped off and woke back up, my mind wandered and came back , and when it was over, I felt so much better. Funny thing, these tools.
All we need to do is
get ourselves there
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