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[merakimousumi]

POP - Power Of Pause.

We understand this power only after practicable failing daily. This is also like a kick you get when you put your hands in water against the flow. The power of water will try to push your hand while you in your mind is enjoying the push , that adrenaline which brings a smile in your heart is priceless.

POP is that process where you feel like going with the flow, react in the name of urgency, spontaneity. It is not so . Our upbringing not always direct but through observation, listening, learning and sometimes direct experience taught us to grab anything that comes as a chance ( once in a lifetime chance) . Jumping into the first school where you got selected ( I know you did not have a say) , taking interest in the first person who told you are beautiful, jumping in the train of competition because everyone is rushing there , list is long .

So pausing is like going against everything. It is not easy. My teacher NS says when there is rush , pause. Spontaneity is when you take action from the state of stillness and not anxiousness.

Pause means resting your faith in the unknown which is invisible in that moment. Head to Heart. Though i am expressing and sharing here , I fail almost daily at least once , when I started practising ( God bless ) , it was horrible, terrible and pathetic disaster. I had to change myself. The step was the write down those moments both personal and professional, observe my own nature.

What did I do -

1. In professional space- On receiving an email, instead of immediate response, I would write and keep it in draft for few minutes to hour. Then again go back to the same email and would redraft it . My self identification- what I initially thought as offensive, aggressive and unpalatable, it was my own projection. I was able to respond with objectivity and in event I required clarity, only 2 words suffices - “ lets discuss “

2. Personal space is actually more difficult than the earlier one

Best is ,stuff your mouth and ears , plug and untie your legs , walk away physically from that space. This was taught in energy management session long ago . This helps always.

The still water can always show a clearer picture than the muddy ones.

Mousumi

[shreemwellbeing]

"The day my mother died, I wrote in my journal, "A serious misfortune of my life has arrived." I suffered for more than one year after the passing away of my mother. But one night, in the highlands of Vietnam, I was sleeping in the hut in my hermitage. I dreamed of my mother. I saw myself sitting with her, and we were having a wonderful talk. She looked young and beautiful, her hair flowing down. It was so pleasant to sit there and talk to her as if she had never died. When I woke up, it was about two in the morning, and I felt very strongly that I had never lost my mother. The impression that my mother was still with me was very clear. I understood then that the idea of having lost my mother was just an idea. It was obvious in that moment that my mother is always alive in me. I opened the door and went outside. The entire hillside was bathed in moonlight. It was a hill covered with tea plants, and my hut was set behind the temple halfway up. Walking slowly in the moonlight through the rows of tea plants, I noticed my mother was still with me. She was the moonlight caressing me as she had done so often, very tender, very sweet... wonderful! Each time my feet touched the earth I knew my mother was there with me. I knew this body was not mine but a living continuation of my mother and my father and my grandparents and great-grandparents. Of all my ancestors. Those feet that I saw as "my" feet were actually "our" feet. Together my mother and I were leaving footprints in the damp soil. From that moment on, the idea that I had lost my mother no longer existed. All I had to do was look at the palm of my hand, feel the breeze on my face or the earth under my feet to remember that my mother is always with me, available at any time." Thich Nhat Hanh 🙏🏼💙🙏🏼💙🙏🏼 . . . . . . . #thichnhathanh #plumvillage #buddhism #mindfulness #thichnhathanhquotes #shreemwellbeing #meditation #love #peace #gratitude #thay #omshanti #lovingkindness #reiki #reikihealing #healing #crystalhealing #grief #loss #death #efttapping #emotionalfreedomtechnique #emotionalfreedomtechniques #energyhealing #holistichealing #somatichealing #traumainformed #traumahealing #healingjourney https://www.instagram.com/shreemwellbeing/p/CZCR1jfMrHQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

[thichnhathanhgems]

Looking more deeply, you can see that the moment you were officially born is not really the moment of your birth. It is only a moment of continuation. Before that, you already existed. You were in the womb for eight or nine months. At what moment did you become you? Some people might say you should move your date of birth to the day you were conceived. But that would not be entirely accurate either. Long before the moment of your conception, the elements you are composed of were already present in the sperm and egg that came together to help you manifest. You also existed in all the conditions that supported and nourished your mother as she was pregnant. And long before that, you were in your grandparents. In fact, you could keep pushing your date of birth back infinitely. There is no moment when you did not exist. This is why in the Zen tradition we ask questions like “What did you look like before your grandmother was born?”

The day you call your birthday is really a day to remember your continuation. Every day you are alive is a continuation day. Within your body, birth and death are always taking place. We are coming into existence and going out of existence at every moment of our life. When you scratch or scrub yourself, dry skin is flaked off and new skin cells are born. In the time it takes you to read this paragraph, thousands of cells will have died...

- Thich Nhat Hanh, in “The Art of Living”.

[davidgellineau]

Zen Master, Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh whose peace, compassion, and bright wisdom that has touched the lives of millions has passed. May his light continue to shine through us. Thich Nhat Hanh -11.10.1926–22.01.2022 🙏🏾❤️🧘🏽‍♂️🧘🏿‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️ #thichnhathanh #thichnhathanhquotes #mindfulness #mindfulliving . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . #byc #beachyogacentre #beach #yoga #toronto #torontoyoga #consciousliving #mindbodyspirit #zen #buddhism #zenmeditation #zenmaster (at Beach Yoga Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZI7TOFMncY/?utm_medium=tumblr

[scientificphilosopher]

Love isn’t a refusal to see flaws or mistakes; that’s Pollyannaism and it’s a form of anxiety-driven denial destined to end in disaster. Love is a sober embrace of harsh truths, a commitment to care and understand in the face of struggle. “Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person,” wrote Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh. “Understanding is love’s other name.” This holds true for loving ourselves just as much as it does for loving others. Yes, things are too often messy and scary and hard. Even still, we must face those realities if we want to love ourselves and others. Understanding and acceptance are essential to the art of love. As the psychologist Carl Rogers put it, “People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, ‘Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.’ I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”

[skido2yogabags]

Be grateful to Mother Earth. Try sometimes walking about with bare feet. And enjoy that moment. As for people who love to walk, O2 yoga bags are the most comfortable to carry while walking to your class. Grab on Amazon.in #thichnhathanh #thichnhathanhquotes #wisdomfromthebag #walktoyoga #yoga #dailyyoga #meditate #walking #walkinginyourfootsteps #yogaeverydamnday #yogaeverywhere #rishikeshyoga #rishikeshdiaries (at Planet Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/B87yCVeHBL-/?igshid=1slun42lhqx2p

[therealafrikantruth]

#LifeEmpowerment #ThichNhatHanhQuotes https://www.instagram.com/p/B296aUFj13M/?igshid=1fstj6qaelxbo

[starr-medicine]

“Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud.” -Thich Nhat Hanh #thichnhathanh #thichnhathanhquotes #wisdom #quotes #nomudnolotus https://www.instagram.com/p/B0lSf_HFh4c/?igshid=dn7mbd3epn3j