Circumstances will take our life away from us
if we let them.
Did someone just say, "Donald Trump"?
Our circumstances, our attitude, our "vim, vigor, and vitality,"
impact the quality of our life to the exact degree that we allow it.
We take our life back with regular immersion in emptiness, stillness and silence--emptying ourselves of thoughts, emotions,
memories, moods, etc. Everything and anything that creates difficulty and adds to our burden.
The Jon Kabat Zinn YouTube Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction exercises are a great tool to use in creating an internal space free from anxiety, fear, chaos and despair. Just counting our breaths provides a quick shift in attention, which, alone is a refuge from inner cycles of angst on "the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea."
Enough overwhelming ourselves in scenarios we produce without end! Listen to Baroque music and watch the wind blowing through the trees.
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