The 67th Inspiration. Mindfulness and Equanimity

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As your complaining stories go away, one change that typically happens is you simply end up being more present. There's a lot less going on in your mind without you're inner critic's drama and all it's opinions. There's extra space in your awareness that allows you to focus more intensely on what arises in the present moment, which includes the sensations of your emotions.

If you're having a nice feeling it's more delicious and enjoyable, but if it's a difficult emotion it will also be experienced more deeply.  You'll have a more intimate, intense and complete experience of every emotion but also have the skills to handle it.  You can be experiencing overwhelming panic but simultaneously recognizes it as an exaggeration.  This kind of clarity is a life changing advantage and potentially everyone can cultivate it.

Staying objective and willing to disregard a feeling in a moments notice, takes the threat and the usual impact of disturbing emotions away.  If shame or embarrassment come along you can just step out of their way or just get curious about them.   I thank my shadow for sharing, take a breath, immediately choose to love myself, and then either examine it or move on.

So in this process of becoming more conscious, your feelings become impressively stronger but you also have a greater ability to transcend, transmute and move past them more quickly.  They can go as fast as they came, and you can remain peaceful and confident as you watch the whole process happen. You stay centered in your wisdom and maintain your emotional equanimity as you experience life more deeply.

This is all possible down the road as you develop enough comfort with discomfort (equanimity), and enough awareness to be mindful of whatever thoughts and feelings you have at any given time. Meditation is a great way to develop both of these skills and with this kind of presence every challenge becomes an opportunity to become more liberated from your negativity.

A formula from one of my teachers, Shinzen Young, is; " Take any situation, bring mindfulness and equanimity to it, and as a result you'll gain insight and purify the fabric of your consciousness. Love it!

Life   +  Mindfulness  &  Equanimity  =  Purification  &  Insight.

This is a great way to remember the elements of this practice.

My intent with this has been to give you insight into the possibilities and encourage you to keep trying to practice these ideas.  This is just one more piece of the puzzle.  If you can remember to bring mindfulness and equanimity to any moment it will already have changed it for the better.

Enjoy your weekend and I invite you to spend some time creating inner peace.

Best wishes to you,
Bryan

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