PAGE IN PROGRESS What you see here is a page of my hypertext book POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power. Initially empty, this page will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! :)
the more you are aware of your emotions, the more you can be in control of your reactions
Why willpower does not work https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/willpower
How to be compassionate https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/compassionate
Please make it stop! https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/please-make-it-stop
Is it the apocalypse? https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/apocalypse?utm_source=TPW&utm_medium=share “Mindfulness also helps us to see what we habitually avoid, and to get spacious around it. We learn to relate to discomfort instead of bypassing it. There is trauma in our experiences which is really tough to sit with, but we can learn how to develop a more open relationship to it by being with it more over time. »
How I learned to stop avoiding life https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/stopavoiding “ These may not feel like avoidance, but believe me, they are. And noticing that you’re doing it is the first step in changing your behavior.It turns out that what I learned from my grandmother is what science tells us today. We are all wired for fight, flight, or freeze when confronted by a perceived threat. It’s biologically adaptive if there’s a lion nearby, but in modern life, we need to teach our brains how to step back from those instincts. The good news is that we can do it. With practice, taking one small step at a time, we begin to set ourselves free.”
Aging wisely: https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/aging-wisely?utm_source=TPW&utm_medium=share "We don’t want to deny the difficult, of course, but we also don’t need to be completely defined by it. Being enveloped in and defined by what’s difficult is relatively easy to do, so it takes some intentionality to recognize all aspects of our experience and remember the positive forces in our lives... First, while the difficult parts of aging are unavoidable, we can try not to add to them... Not being able to do something I used to be able to do, or being in physical pain, or losing people we love—these are already very hard. But we often add more suffering onto them, like thinking it shouldn’t be this way, or feeling shame or fear. One possibility of mindfulness is to notice where we’re adding to the suffering that’s already there, and try not to fall so much into it."
https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/anger “ Gradually we can come to feel it as pure energy. And once we're directly in contact with that pure energy, then we can make a conscious choice and say, I'm going to channel this. I'm going to go into my kitchen in a rage, and I am going to wash more dishes than I've ever washed before, clean out a couple of shelves, and I will come out victorious. Or I’m going to write the best anger poem of my life, get it published, and win a prize for it. Or I’m going to find three good organizations and give them some money. I’m going to empower myself. It's almost like an alchemical process.”