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Have you lost your way — or — has the way lost you?
How can you recognize the state of your way and what can you do about it?
There is no avoiding present circumstances. The world is in the midst of turmoil and change like nobody has ever encountered before. Between COVID-19, ludicrous politics, greed on levels never before imagined, and countless other negatives I could point out here — everything is uncertain.
Not just a few things. EVERYTHING. Currently, life IS uncertainty. With a few exceptions, people are finding themselves coping with environments and experiences they didn’t plan for, certainly didn’t desire, and cannot see the end of.
We can’t go back and undo the past to change how we got here. The future is in motion and clouded in many ways. All we have is today, the present, this moment, the here-and-now.
To best work with that truth, it’s important to make a practice of mindfulness. Being aware of your thoughts, feelings, and actions makes you conscious, which puts you in the now.
Your subconscious is like a sponge. It is super-absorbent and will hold things you probably don’t want. Mindfulness is the act of wringing out the sponge to get rid of the ick.
