Training With The Chaos
Notice when we’re feeling chaos and then use it as a kind of meditation, to breathe and then relax.
- Notice when you’re feeling chaos. You don’t have to look for it. The world will always give us enough chaos to practice with.
- Pause.
- Breathe. Deep into your belly, slowly, letting yourself relax with each breath.
- Then learn to relax with this feeling of chaos, uncertainty, fear, anxiety, shakiness, groundlessness.
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