Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
"If you are injured and in pain, the path to mental peace can be traversed in a single step: Simply accept the pain as it arises, while doing whatever you need to do to help your body heal. If you are anxious before giving a speech, become willing to feel the anxiety fully, so that it becomes a meaningless pattern of energy in your mind and body. E... See more
Sam Harriss • Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
TL;DR: The first step must be to calm our nervous systems; to return to center. From that grounded place, we can take longer-term actions. Second, we can cultivate resilience practices to support us amid turbulent times: taking a rest. Gardening. Spending time with nature, art, music, reading. Third: we have to build community, to invest in relatio... See more
Brian Stout • Building at the speed of belonging... surviving the speed of catastrophe
let the thoughts that “only I could rescue us” come and I let them go. I decided to see what would happen without my input—even if it meant that everything would fall apart. Sometimes you just have to let everything fall apart. Stopping my actions was the first step and the hardest one. Not saving the day was going against the grain of how I operat
... See morePema Chödrön • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
But our freedom and sovereignty means that we don’t become a victim of circumstances. With compassion and insight, we ask ourselves, “In this situation, what can I do to stop things getting worse? How can I help the situation improve?”