RE: Facing Adversity with an Open Heart
A great title and a rare skill!
I would redefine 'grounding' as being where you understand life from, and the understanding/world view we actually live from rather than intellectually support.
Our grounding is where we 'meet' the rainy days of life from
We are always going to get wet, but do not need to be swept away!
To me, having a deeper grounding is about understanding/experiencing more deeply how life actually works and how we are living in the moment to moment feeling of our thinking (rather than being an effect knocked around by the causes in the world)
That understanding and coming back to that allows us to face adversity with an open heart - an open heart being allowing thoughts and feelings to flow through us rather than getting 'stuck'
Of course we all get stuck and then we just need a little nudge to be back in our flow.
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Thank you for such a positive response :) Much of my current understanding is work in progress as I move from a more cognitive approach to a more spiritual way of working (but one that has to have the evidence make sense too!).
thanks again!
I have shared in the cognitive to spiritual (and back and between) shift. When you have the background in cognitive understanding, the spiritual approach becomes much more powerful.
Yes, absolutely - one of the things missing from some spiritual approaches is how the Formless becomes form, how the spiritual ends up as our moment to moment experience.
We know a lot more about that process now thanks to modern research, and yet without a spiritual ground for it all to take lace within, the cognitive /scientific approach is just a flatland of mind being an emergent property of brain -essentially meaningless !