Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Day Three: A possibility, emotional choosing



As we go through our day, let’s keep sensing our legs and sensing our breathing and noticing along with that: how are we feeling?

When do we feel happy?

When do we feel sad?

When do we feel angry, afraid, worried, and so on.

Can we just notice that and come back to sensing our legs and our breathing?

Maybe we can.

Maybe we can’t.

Maybe we sometimes can and sometimes can’t.

Consider this in a strange and very revealing way. After each emotion, let us all play with the idea, the possibility of ourselves as having CHOSEN that emotion.

Don’t think about this.

Just notice and come back to the now of legs and breathing.

That’s “all,” and that’s a lot, and it is a “lot” to live in this miracle of the present.

Play with noticing our feelings.

Play with the idea of having chosen them.

Play with the coming back to the ongoing reality of legs and breathing. Sounds so humdrum compared to the drama of all our emotional “stuff.”

So what?

Come on back to now, and see how powerful that this really is.

This now, too, always this now as we read, as I write, as we put down the book and go about our life.


And at the end of the day, in bed, before going to sleep, each day review the game/ lesson/ meditation of the day.

Good.



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Thursday, September 27, 2007

This is "hard." Is that true?

hillside in early spring

"this is hard:
doing
a post a day."

the thought arises,
the unhappiness and blocking
begin to form

and,
to the rescue:
4 questions
and a turn around.


is that true?
i don't know

can i absolutely know that this is true?
no.

How feel when attach to "hard" story?
burdened, weak, confused, stressed

how and who would i be without the "hard" story?
Amused, curious, what am i going to write today?

Turn around:
This is not hard,
a post a day

la la
when in doubt
or confused
or stressed

The Work of Byron Katie (thework.com)
is always useful,
so clear and
focuses me
back on the source
of all my misery
and all my happiness:

me and my thoughts about
What is.

and what does that
have to do
with Parenting?

everything

because when it's "hard"
is when we really can show the kids
how a person
can be present and loving
even when the dice
are stacked against them

show them how when the going gets tough
the tough
get loving
and
now-ing

wow

ciao,
chris


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