This post is about Life's uncertainties and how to apply Mindfulness to deal with them better. It's written by Phillip Moffitt, a really great Meditation teacher,based in San Rafeal, California.
I have found his writing to be skillful, precise and actually able the teachings in real life today, not when I'm in my seventies!!
"We’ve all experienced how unsettling and uncertain life can be and how easily we can be knocked off center at any moment.
When we’re not in balance, we can become defined by whatever is happening and get caught in what I call “reactive mind.”
But through the skillful application of mindfulness we can learn to self-soothe whenever life delivers us a blow and soon regain our balance.
When we lack the ability to self-soothe, we resort to using less skillful strategies to deal with difficulty such as escaping into fantasy, or overindulging in work, alcohol, or food, which usually prolongs our suffering.
Self-soothing begins with softening into your experience and then applying mindfulness to recognize that “this moment is like this.” From within the spaciousness that this softening creates, you can start to investigate the experience ….What insights can you apply to this difficult situation?
For instance, you might reflect on the impersonal nature of life. Although you are having a personal experience, it is just causes and conditions that are creating this experience.
This too is going to change because everything changes.
Life is hard; therefore, it’s not a mistake that your life is hard in this moment.
This insight alone can be a source of great comfort.
Soften into this insight, let out a long sigh, make yourself a cup of soothing honey-lemon tea,
Sip slowly...
This moment is all yours...."
Phillip Moffitt
Till we meet again, drinking honey-lemon tea,
Asha
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