By Joan Borysenko — 2008
Let your body relax, and feel your connection to the larger whole.
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CLEAR ALL
A calm mind and even temper can help make peace with life’s difficulties.
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When you truly focus your attention to the task, the switch to thinking mindfully about your action results in a change in your feelings and behavior.
We hold our grief hard in the belly. We store fear and disappointment, anger and guilt in our gut. Softening the Belly… of Sorrow Our belly has become fossilized with a long resistance to life and to loss.
There is a key moment, says Pema Chödrön, when we make the choice between peace and conflict. In this teaching from her program Practicing Peace, she describes the practice we can do at that very moment to bring peace for ourselves, for others, and for the world.
Whether it’s the communicating between different tribes or religions, ethnicities, racial groups or different generations, we need to listen. The more we understand, the less we fear—the less we fear, the more we trust and the more we trust, the more love can flow.