Big thanks to Rosemary Shields for posing this question and starting me off down a long winded rant! A long winded rant that I THINK ending up providing a solution on how to get red necks to take better care of their brains 🤣
OMG I am humbled and honored that you took the time to answer my question because it is a question we all grapple with. I love that you wondered aloud if you’d wasted your time early on — BT (before therapy). Just know, nothing is wasted. Your varied life experience has brought you to where you are right now. You started to talk about “I expect less . . .” and then the guy in the pickup with the loud rap music turning into the church drive got your attention. Maybe another time you can talk about “expecting less” which in no way diminishes life, it enhances it. Finally, because I feel like I’ve talked too much, what you call saving rednecks by walking in the woods (listening to the leaves crunching underfoot) is what the Japanese call “Forest bathing.” Thank you for your insights. You are a blessing.
Great post. Thanks for sharing! Mindfulness and meditation have done the trick for me. I use the Waking Up app with Sam Harris every day, and there are lectures and even some “sleep meditations” to listen to as I drift off. But during the day, I just keep trying to remind myself to *notice* things, mindfully. It has expanded my world and my sense of wonder. Like you with the crunching leaves! Just a walk in the woods and NOTICING things, not just the beautiful but all things, is very therapeutic.
Contentment. I don't know that I've ever been content. It's hard when you have people coming at you from all sides. But I've found that for me...there might be a relationship between contentment and satisfying my never ending curiosities. Sometimes that's doing arty stuff, sometimes it's reading. Recently it's been I have made friends with a murder of crows. There's something kind of special about leaving them a big plate of walnuts and Jerky and coming back to find coins, random bits of jewelry, pretty rocks etc. They come and stand on my car and make the friend caw. I find it a strangely comforting way to wake up in the morning. It feels like an honor.
I wanna elaborate on my previous question a bit. I asked about fear. What I really wanna know is how you deal with it...like things like stage fright for example.
I don’t think I’ve ever been content. I have my happy place which is laying in the sun & listening to music, but I can’t think of a time outside of my happy place where I am content.
Cory. You are chewing waaaay too much nicotine gum. Slow your roll, boy.
OMG I am humbled and honored that you took the time to answer my question because it is a question we all grapple with. I love that you wondered aloud if you’d wasted your time early on — BT (before therapy). Just know, nothing is wasted. Your varied life experience has brought you to where you are right now. You started to talk about “I expect less . . .” and then the guy in the pickup with the loud rap music turning into the church drive got your attention. Maybe another time you can talk about “expecting less” which in no way diminishes life, it enhances it. Finally, because I feel like I’ve talked too much, what you call saving rednecks by walking in the woods (listening to the leaves crunching underfoot) is what the Japanese call “Forest bathing.” Thank you for your insights. You are a blessing.
Great post. Thanks for sharing! Mindfulness and meditation have done the trick for me. I use the Waking Up app with Sam Harris every day, and there are lectures and even some “sleep meditations” to listen to as I drift off. But during the day, I just keep trying to remind myself to *notice* things, mindfully. It has expanded my world and my sense of wonder. Like you with the crunching leaves! Just a walk in the woods and NOTICING things, not just the beautiful but all things, is very therapeutic.
Best wishes, Corey. Keep going!
Contentment. I don't know that I've ever been content. It's hard when you have people coming at you from all sides. But I've found that for me...there might be a relationship between contentment and satisfying my never ending curiosities. Sometimes that's doing arty stuff, sometimes it's reading. Recently it's been I have made friends with a murder of crows. There's something kind of special about leaving them a big plate of walnuts and Jerky and coming back to find coins, random bits of jewelry, pretty rocks etc. They come and stand on my car and make the friend caw. I find it a strangely comforting way to wake up in the morning. It feels like an honor.
I wanna elaborate on my previous question a bit. I asked about fear. What I really wanna know is how you deal with it...like things like stage fright for example.
That dude is playing Pokémon go. Going back to listening
I don’t think I’ve ever been content. I have my happy place which is laying in the sun & listening to music, but I can’t think of a time outside of my happy place where I am content.