
Jun 22, 2020, 02:35 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2014
Location: ohio
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Originally Posted by Mopey
I think everyone is right here. It is possible to chip away on it, but as Fuzzy says, it's kind of like pushing that boulder up the steep hill in the middle of the night.
I am trying to learn to stop and pay attention when I am in pain, and as turtle says, try to embrace myself instead of fighting with it, saying I shouldn't feel that way, etc. Thicht Nhat Hahn (sp) talks about this, that when you are aware of discomfort, irritation, depression, or whatever, that you not fight against it, that you embrace it as if it were, in his words, a "tender little baby", and tell it you're here for it, because all of that, good and bad, are parts of the entity that is your self.
What I have the most trouble with is just stopping and holding still with myself and trying to do the comforting, when the rest of myself is saying, "What the f--- are you doing just sitting there when there are umpteen tasks to be accomplished??? Lazy, worthless, slob, " etc. etc. I have trouble convincing
myself that how I feel at that time is more important than anything I might accomplish.

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wow this is heavy...how do we know if these guys are right...the hahn guy and the zinn guy...what do they know that we don't...does this work ...i hope so...otherwise i have been wasting time....but fathers day i was practicing mindfulness....and when i got in my car i just started screaming and crying because of how i treated my own children...so when i talked to each kid it was really good...it turned out to be one of my best fathers day...and i didn't end up blaming somebody else...for who they are...
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