@DrDebraSoh@amazon@amazonbooks@AbigailShrier Curious, I searched Amazon here in California where I live and your book did come up along with a list of related titles including Abigail's (which was 3rd on the list).
#cnntownhall Why not have those who are risk (elderly, health co-morbidities) engage in serious social distancing while those who are at less risk return to social interaction? This seems the one solution that would allow the economy to re-open while keeping the vulnerable safe.
Engaging in some practice in order to become more mindful or aware is like going outside on a bright, sunny day, and lighting a candle in order to see better. Experience is always illuminated!
Without deferring to anything or anyone, simply look at what’s here, nakedly and innocently, without referring to any outside authority. Open yourself in complete un-guardedness to what’s here, letting experience tell you what it is, allowing the moment to reveal its secrets...
While our narratives about what's going on here are based on an assumption of continuity—that things are more or less what they were an instant ago—such continuity doesn't actually exist…which calls into question the ultimate veracity of any narrative we might be engaging in.
In any moment you find yourself engaging in some practice to become more present or aware, just stop and recognize that both the practice you’re engaging in, and the effort you are exerting, are themselves expressions of the very presence you are seeking.
All the states we've ever tried to avoid or change into something else—the fear, the insecurity—simply by relaxing and allowing those to be as they are, we can discover that every one of them, left uncorrected, is actually the seat of the most inconceivable power and presence.