Each of us has tangled up leftovers from hard experiences, that obscure our clarity. We go around our lives, projecting our leftovers onto the world we see and the day we are given. What a sad waste of a good life.
Mindfully sitting ,with these lousy difficult thoughts and feelings, the moment they arise...composts each one a bit.
Renews our capacity to see our lives as they really are. And not a panorama of our fears and disappointments and bitterness and bias.
Imagine yourself sitting next to a flowing stream. As you sit there, some thought or feeling that you've had rises up in you. If you're visual, see it hovering over the stream, flowing past you.
Feel it fill your body and say to yourself " That there is a feeling. And this here is a thought." Identifying them helps us learn a healthy detachment.
Feel it until you watch it pass down the stream. Feel the relief of it having passed on by.
Each time you feel something during the day, that you would usually either miserably obsess about or avoid or eat to quell or consume something else to push away, pause just a moment, and put yourself at the stream.
See yourself sitting there. Let yourself embody the strong feelings. The difficult thoughts. Tell yourself it's a feeling, a thought. Remind yourself to watch as it passes by.
At day's end, as you relax from your day, these things will have had some help getting digested. They will not be there , waiting to rise up just as you are hoping to settle down to sleep.
Each day you compost a greater volume of old thoughts and feelings, and the new ones that come up.
Over time, when you are itching to buy something or do something or consume something, you'll remember. To check in. Putting yourself at the stream. And the thoughts and feelings you discover will surprise you.
But your days will develop more ease, your health too. And the tougher your life circumstance, the more you will benefit.
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