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EVERY DAY MINDFULNESS

HOW YOU CAN HELP WHEN WHEN

THE WORLD APPEARS IN CHAOS

Writer Sophia Quzi practices Raj Yoga and teaches mindful meditation. She is an Ayurveda massage
therapist and training to be an Ayurvedic Nutrition Consultant and Practitioner. “I have always had a
heart full of grace and compassion toward all that is." Find her on Facebook

I always found that there are two ways of contem- At a time like this when the world is descending into chaos,
plating, the blind way and the meditative or prob- nations are shaken and horrified, we only need to use words
lem solving way. A blind person will ask what is the sky that are pacifying and soul nourishing. Words that will restore
like? Blue; what is blue like? Ocean; what is ocean like? Vast; our peace our faith and courage. Any post or speech that cre-
what is vast like? This will never end because the blind don't ates tension or arguments, simply avoid them.
know the truth, so his way of contemplating will only cause High conflict people are prone to create words that are con-
stress, confusion and conflict. flicting, full of blame, and anger. Notice whenever there is an
incident, these high conflict people will only post something
Whereas in meditation one keeps track of their thoughts, their that is aggravating to five senses. Sit in silence and know the
sensitivity. All our thoughts are affairs of mental fabrications. truth. The art of truth is never hold a grudge, it always lets go.
Anything fabricated is short lived, now wanting this and now
wanting that. Meditation will stop us from running along with A sorrowful heart is like a bird in a cage. It sees the weakness-
them and these thoughts in time will end on their own. es of not being able to fly anywhere, so it's mind is obsessed
with finding a way out of the cage. It's fed up with the cage
where it lives. Even if you give it food to eat, it's still unhappy,
because it's fed up with the cage where it is imprisoned. When
heart sees the weaknesses of inconsistency, stressfulness and
not feeling whole, it will try obsessively to think how to es-
cape from that cycle of wondering on.

The best way to handle this is to focus only on things that are
working for us, things that we are not resenting and things
that we are grateful for. Once I am happy without the things I
want to have and the change I want to make in my life, I will
see that in the right hour things I wanted will start to show up.
After all we are our vibrational match.

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