I will have to dive further in this. I have left religion, but I do know that I agree with many Buddhist principles! And I would say by body is learning how to hold space for fear. I try to process it as a type of excitement. Thanks so much for stopping by!
This is so inspiring! So proud of your mom for going out and not hiding at home so much courage. Proud of you for going after a dream you’ve always had!
An answer to your question, as you know, I am a widower who fears going back to the places that were my wife’s and mine together. But recently, I have been thinking that may be a short trip for a couple of days to Winnipeg, mostly to visit her grave, and the graves of my mother and grandparents, might not kill me.
And as for the book you were reading, I would never dismiss romance as a genre, as, when you think of it, it actually is one of the most central things to almost everyone’s life. For good or bad. The beginning of the story actually sounded like just getting away, like a Jimmy Buffett song in the best possible way. And trust me, I love the late, and mourned Jimmy Buffett.
But a funny thing about the fear thing. Those of us who have been involved in sports that are about fighting understand this. Anyone who says here or she is not afraid before a fight is either mentally unhinged or lying. It’s about containing fear and doing it anyway. And one of the first things you learn, is to actually unlearn that human instinct to flinch away from an incoming pun or kick and advert your eyes, which I guess is a built-in reflex to protect them. Rather, you rewire your brain to never take your eyes off your opponent, unless you’re doing the rare spinning technique, when, as it was described to me, you do what figure skaters do when they spin. They keep their eyes in one spot, which, in the case of a fighting sport would be the opponent. Then they snapped their head around at the last instant, so as to lose sight of that opponent for only the tiniest fraction of a second and no more.
And bam, you've become a Buddhist! Make friends with fear. How does it feel in your body.
I will have to dive further in this. I have left religion, but I do know that I agree with many Buddhist principles! And I would say by body is learning how to hold space for fear. I try to process it as a type of excitement. Thanks so much for stopping by!
That is courage. That’s exactly what it is.
This is so inspiring! So proud of your mom for going out and not hiding at home so much courage. Proud of you for going after a dream you’ve always had!
An answer to your question, as you know, I am a widower who fears going back to the places that were my wife’s and mine together. But recently, I have been thinking that may be a short trip for a couple of days to Winnipeg, mostly to visit her grave, and the graves of my mother and grandparents, might not kill me.
And as for the book you were reading, I would never dismiss romance as a genre, as, when you think of it, it actually is one of the most central things to almost everyone’s life. For good or bad. The beginning of the story actually sounded like just getting away, like a Jimmy Buffett song in the best possible way. And trust me, I love the late, and mourned Jimmy Buffett.
But a funny thing about the fear thing. Those of us who have been involved in sports that are about fighting understand this. Anyone who says here or she is not afraid before a fight is either mentally unhinged or lying. It’s about containing fear and doing it anyway. And one of the first things you learn, is to actually unlearn that human instinct to flinch away from an incoming pun or kick and advert your eyes, which I guess is a built-in reflex to protect them. Rather, you rewire your brain to never take your eyes off your opponent, unless you’re doing the rare spinning technique, when, as it was described to me, you do what figure skaters do when they spin. They keep their eyes in one spot, which, in the case of a fighting sport would be the opponent. Then they snapped their head around at the last instant, so as to lose sight of that opponent for only the tiniest fraction of a second and no more.