Being Right Here, Right Now |
We sometimes surround feelings and experiences with buffers that keep us safe from fully feeling them. Some of these buffers are: a story, a familiar belief about ourselves, an addictive habit, or a hastening to fix, change, or control our feelings or the situation. These are all ways of doing something rather than simply being with what is happening to us.
Most of us have a fear of simply being right here, right now, preferring to take some action that will make things better. We thereby disable our natural and spiritual inclination to surrender to what is, with an unconditional yes.
Most of us cannot trust what may happen when a feeling is allowed to run its full course. We cannot trust that the universe wants to teach us........