In mindfulness, we come to see that much of our mental activity, especially “worried mind”, is a habit and not useful. Worrying often feels like movement, effort, engagement, even control and it’s circular and exhausting. We go over the same thoughts, fears and imagined scenarios…
“…where the algorithms reward certainty, outrage and fear-mongering. In fact, the best way to come to understand your life, universe, the way the world is working, is to have some intellectual humility, to have some opened mindedness.” Dan Harris, Rich Roll podcast, Get 10% Happier...
One recent morning in Hawaii, as my wife wandered with her camera, drawn again and again to the quiet glory of each flower, I found myself worried about sweating thru my clothes. How’s that for mindfulness? She was invited, perhaps twenty-five times, to see each...