have this ever happened to you? feel like it is difficult to fall asleep when so many thoughts and stimulli fill your mind, making you tense, agitated, tighten muscles and close your jaw. Thinking too much or too hard on things that happened during the day, sometimes something we saw on TV, a nice thought, something about work, or about house renovation, or parts of a converstion with someone you love, talking too much to your roommates or companion, or when trying to have a way out of a inner or outter conflict. This feeling is not relaxing and might take too long to get calm, nor even aware to breath in and out.
Yes, it does happen frequently when I have loads of stressful demands at work, or a discussion, or a frustration I need to deal with, and also when am planning hard what is going to be next, and feeling electric with new oportunities. Exactly that happend to me last night, because I was so excited with this new project, I had a hard time falling asleep! My own meditation and enjoyment project is not making me relaxed...., the old trap!
when our minds are back in forth between past and future, new projects turn us on, we fall in the vicious cycle of discussing in some superficial level our life, and sometimes thinking so hard which path to take, which decision to make to be happy.
This agitated inner state can at some point hurts us too, and can bring us even more suffering. So for this reason, or for no other reason, I chose to dance and meditate on "no other way". To keep me in check! mind clear, need to relax, stop grasping, stop inner talking, stop thinking too hard and understand the source of suffering. Very often and without intention, we start blaming others for our sufferings, our lack of self determination and of midfulness. by relating to past and future we cannot enjoy the present moment we live on. Then, we need someone to hear our complaints, what we want, our desires and wishes, so our mind need to have a sounding board, and our mind plays tricks all the time as we are thrown into inner talking and talking.
So the meditation today is in mindfulness, being honest with ourselves that we can not control life and we do not know everything. We have no certain knowledge about the past nor the future to which we are proceeding. Midfulness (smriti) in Buddhist means remember to come back to the present moment, here and now, and feel all that surround us is alive and present. If we are not fully present in ourselves and in our relation to the other, everything will be like a dream. Mindfulnes is also nourishing these people and things with our love, then relieving the other's suffering and looking deeply into the other's eyes and spirit. Soon we are in the mindful state we can shine the light of mindfulness on the object of our attention, at the same time shine the light of mindfulness on ourselves.
There is no other way!!!!
Aloha e.
"No Other Way"
When your mind is a mess so is mine I can’t sleep
Because it hurts when I think when my thoughts aren’t at peace
With the plans that we make and the chances we take
They’re not yours they’re not mine
There are waves that can break
All the words that we said and the words that we mean
And the words can fall short, can’t see the unseen
Because the world is awake so for somebody’s sake
Now please close your eyes
Woman, please get some sleep
Sleep and know that if I knew all of the answers
I would not hold them from you
Know all of the things that I know
Because we told each other there is no other way
Too much silence can be misleading
You’re drifting I can hear it in the way that you’re breathing
We don’t really need to find reason
Because out the same door that it came well it’s leaving
It’s leaving
Leaving like a day that’s done and part of a season
Resolve is just a concept that’s as dead as the leaves
But at least we could sleep, it’s all that we need
When we wake we would find, our minds would be free
To go to sleep
Sleep and know that if I knew all of the answers
I would not hold them from you
Know all of the things that I know
Because we told each other there is no other way
Because it hurts when I think when my thoughts aren’t at peace
With the plans that we make and the chances we take
They’re not yours they’re not mine
There are waves that can break
All the words that we said and the words that we mean
And the words can fall short, can’t see the unseen
Because the world is awake so for somebody’s sake
Now please close your eyes
Woman, please get some sleep
Sleep and know that if I knew all of the answers
I would not hold them from you
Know all of the things that I know
Because we told each other there is no other way
Too much silence can be misleading
You’re drifting I can hear it in the way that you’re breathing
We don’t really need to find reason
Because out the same door that it came well it’s leaving
It’s leaving
Leaving like a day that’s done and part of a season
Resolve is just a concept that’s as dead as the leaves
But at least we could sleep, it’s all that we need
When we wake we would find, our minds would be free
To go to sleep
Sleep and know that if I knew all of the answers
I would not hold them from you
Know all of the things that I know
Because we told each other there is no other way
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