Author: Anne

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INTIMACY… Into To Me I See

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light.  Look hard.  Risk that.

Quote by Cheryl Strayed

REFLECTION:

  • Intimacy requires us to see another through a different light.  Reflect on someone you love, how can you see them in a new way?
  • How can you see the “other” in a new way?  Whether this is people of different color or religion or gender or socioeconomic  status….

FAITH WITH ONE ANOTHER

The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

With Covid-19, we are being asked to physically distance ourselves…. this can be a matter of life or death (or at least a higher risk of contracting the virus).  With BLM protests, we are seeing people holding each other up… risking their safety for what many believe is a higher cause. The dance is a difficult one to navigate.  

Quote by James Baldwin

REFLECTION:

  • In these very difficult times, how can you ensure the light doesn’t go out?
  • How can you hold someone up who is in need now?  If not physically, emotionally?

Self Imprisonment

Every moment in which we are caught – by desire, by an emotion, by an unexamined impulse, idea or opinion – in a very real way, we are instantly imprisoned by the habitual ways in which we react – whether it is a habit of withdrawal and distancing ourselves, as in depression and sadness, or erupting and getting emotionally “hijacked” by our feelings, as when we fall headlong into anxiety or anger.  Such moments are always accompanied by a contraction in both the mind and the body.

From: ARRIVING AT YOUR OWN DOOR 108 Lessons in Mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn

REFLETION:

  • Is there some  anger or anxiety that is hijacking you now? 
  • How is this causing your life to contract?
  • How can you free yourself from this self imposed prison?
  • What steps will you take today?