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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 693467" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>My friend gave me a book this week by Thich Nhat Hanh. Peace Is Every Step. I started reading it in the bathtub last night. I read about 20 pages. </p><p></p><p>He talks about starting with breathing. Just breathing. Breathe in and breathe out and just think about it while you are doing it. This seems...what...maybe even remedial...certainly kind of what...silly....in the midst of all people here are dealing with. But it's not the breathing that is the point, he says. It's the mindfulness that focusing on breathing...just breathing in and out...he says three circulations of breathing in....and then out....are enough to calm us. Then....we can see that we are actually living in this very moment. We aren't living in the past or the future for just a minute. We are quieting our thinking and we are grasping this very moment. </p><p></p><p>I think this is something almost nobody does. Nobody. And this mindful practice is a "I can do this" aid or help that we can grab onto to calm ourselves in the thick of our racing minds, our overwhelming anxiety, our deep fear, our profound grief, our despair about our loved ones, our insistent racing around to try...one...more...thing...to make a difference in an impossible situation. </p><p></p><p>If we can stop....just stop....and reset ourselves...and calm ourselves...we can start to create a very tiny space...a very small space....that we can grasp....and later enlarge...to create some light. Just a tiny bit of light at first, but there is light for us to grasp onto even in the midst of this type of awful, soul-searing pain and grief. </p><p></p><p>Practices like this can be a first step to letting go. Which I believe is the goal. We must let go of that which we cannot control. But how to do it? That is the very very very hard part. This could be a first step.</p><p></p><p>Thanks RE.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 693467, member: 17542"] My friend gave me a book this week by Thich Nhat Hanh. Peace Is Every Step. I started reading it in the bathtub last night. I read about 20 pages. He talks about starting with breathing. Just breathing. Breathe in and breathe out and just think about it while you are doing it. This seems...what...maybe even remedial...certainly kind of what...silly....in the midst of all people here are dealing with. But it's not the breathing that is the point, he says. It's the mindfulness that focusing on breathing...just breathing in and out...he says three circulations of breathing in....and then out....are enough to calm us. Then....we can see that we are actually living in this very moment. We aren't living in the past or the future for just a minute. We are quieting our thinking and we are grasping this very moment. I think this is something almost nobody does. Nobody. And this mindful practice is a "I can do this" aid or help that we can grab onto to calm ourselves in the thick of our racing minds, our overwhelming anxiety, our deep fear, our profound grief, our despair about our loved ones, our insistent racing around to try...one...more...thing...to make a difference in an impossible situation. If we can stop....just stop....and reset ourselves...and calm ourselves...we can start to create a very tiny space...a very small space....that we can grasp....and later enlarge...to create some light. Just a tiny bit of light at first, but there is light for us to grasp onto even in the midst of this type of awful, soul-searing pain and grief. Practices like this can be a first step to letting go. Which I believe is the goal. We must let go of that which we cannot control. But how to do it? That is the very very very hard part. This could be a first step. Thanks RE. [/QUOTE]
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