There are times when life is hard. What do we do about it?
Let us pause a bit. Go back to the first statement. Let us erase the second statement because without the first the second is meaningless. So we are back to:
There are times when life is hard.
OK so what exactly does that mean? It could be something happening to you or your loved ones or society or Mother Earth. It could be a feeling inside of you, an emotion, that you can not pin down a cause for. In any case what does 'life is hard' mean? Stay with this awhile. Be specific. Get out of the tendency to generalize. What are you feeling right now when you say that 'life is hard'? There could be sadness for a particular reason, anger at someone or circumstances, and so on. The possibilities are endless.
While connecting to the specificity of your 'life is hard' feeling concentrate your attention on your physical body. You may close your eyes and pay close attention.
Soon you will find that there are not one but two things asking for your attention. There is of course the thing that is making you feel that 'life is hard', now getting clearer through your specificity. But there is also something else calling for your attention.
This something else is the pulse. It is a simple physical sensation in your body. It may be a heaviness in the belly, an itch in the skin of the upper arm. Now move your focus from your 'life is hard' circumstance to the pulse. Watch very carefully and see the pulse evolve. It will eventually take you to the next moment. That is to say you will feel an inner urge, a prompting to do something in the very next moment. Follow it.
Keep following the pulse as it grows. At some point you will be free!
Friends, life is love, life is light, life is the pulse! That is the lesson of improv!
May the pulse be with you!
Abhay
Let us pause a bit. Go back to the first statement. Let us erase the second statement because without the first the second is meaningless. So we are back to:
There are times when life is hard.
OK so what exactly does that mean? It could be something happening to you or your loved ones or society or Mother Earth. It could be a feeling inside of you, an emotion, that you can not pin down a cause for. In any case what does 'life is hard' mean? Stay with this awhile. Be specific. Get out of the tendency to generalize. What are you feeling right now when you say that 'life is hard'? There could be sadness for a particular reason, anger at someone or circumstances, and so on. The possibilities are endless.
While connecting to the specificity of your 'life is hard' feeling concentrate your attention on your physical body. You may close your eyes and pay close attention.
Soon you will find that there are not one but two things asking for your attention. There is of course the thing that is making you feel that 'life is hard', now getting clearer through your specificity. But there is also something else calling for your attention.
This something else is the pulse. It is a simple physical sensation in your body. It may be a heaviness in the belly, an itch in the skin of the upper arm. Now move your focus from your 'life is hard' circumstance to the pulse. Watch very carefully and see the pulse evolve. It will eventually take you to the next moment. That is to say you will feel an inner urge, a prompting to do something in the very next moment. Follow it.
Keep following the pulse as it grows. At some point you will be free!
Friends, life is love, life is light, life is the pulse! That is the lesson of improv!
May the pulse be with you!
Abhay
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