What a lovely reflection David!! I too feel that when I’m able to just “experience” life without an internal narrative pushing back & attempting to explain and/or control, etc. then there’s simply magical, mysterious, beautiful unfolding (even the terrible & terrifying can seem miraculous) but oh how seldom this occurs. Like your kingfisher, it seems the natural world is the doorway, unfortunately I (many of us) oftentimes forget. Thank you for your gentle & generous reminder ♥️
I think you have got it in one. If we can learn to stop the almost ceaseless, relentless internal narration or dialogue then our concept of our world - the world - changes dramatically, but getting there is, for me at least, very difficult. But we do have those 'kingfisher moments' to help us.
Your thoughts on this are shared in varying ways by many, many of us. A while ago posted a short piece which I called 'Malaise' and which attempted to work out why I was experiencing so much discontent and worry all around me. Your words certainly mirrored a lot of my own feelings, and made me wonder if it is some kind of chicken and egg thing? Does all this shit really exist or do we say it is so because of the endless media that bombards most of us these days? My way of avoiding a lot of 'bad stuff' is simply not to see it or hear it. Every time I think I should be, or need to be 'informed' and I have a look at the press, the news, something similar that lands in my inbox, on my phone, I almost at once can feel anger, frustration and all the rest of the negative emotions. And It always seems to me that the 'news' is pretty much the same as last time I looked. Not a lot of any significance has changed. So I just stop watching and listening to it and feel better for it. When the war in Ukraine comes to an end for example, I will hear about it from friends or posts somewhere. It isn't that I am not concerned, just that I don't want or need to be engaged by reading regular statistics and analyses, most of which only fill me with feelings of helplessness and worry.
A last thought that might help us when we get, for example, angry or frustrated. Acknowledge the feeling and ask yourself how long you need to feel that way before you are ready to move on from it? Five minutes, an hour, all day? You want to be pissed-off for hours and project that out into the world? Fine. Your choice. If only I took my own advice more often!
What a lovely reflection David!! I too feel that when I’m able to just “experience” life without an internal narrative pushing back & attempting to explain and/or control, etc. then there’s simply magical, mysterious, beautiful unfolding (even the terrible & terrifying can seem miraculous) but oh how seldom this occurs. Like your kingfisher, it seems the natural world is the doorway, unfortunately I (many of us) oftentimes forget. Thank you for your gentle & generous reminder ♥️
I think you have got it in one. If we can learn to stop the almost ceaseless, relentless internal narration or dialogue then our concept of our world - the world - changes dramatically, but getting there is, for me at least, very difficult. But we do have those 'kingfisher moments' to help us.
I think you will like this album....if you don't already know it. Spell Songs, especially the Lost Words Blessing....
https://open.spotify.com/track/7HjuHgVPD8KZ8dy4CNnPjG?si=v9GiWrPoRciO9MsyOwE6fw
Lovely. I’ll be on Mull in September , gazing on the Garvellachs and Lagan, listening to this . . . or just listening
Thank you. I’ll listen later . . .
Your thoughts on this are shared in varying ways by many, many of us. A while ago posted a short piece which I called 'Malaise' and which attempted to work out why I was experiencing so much discontent and worry all around me. Your words certainly mirrored a lot of my own feelings, and made me wonder if it is some kind of chicken and egg thing? Does all this shit really exist or do we say it is so because of the endless media that bombards most of us these days? My way of avoiding a lot of 'bad stuff' is simply not to see it or hear it. Every time I think I should be, or need to be 'informed' and I have a look at the press, the news, something similar that lands in my inbox, on my phone, I almost at once can feel anger, frustration and all the rest of the negative emotions. And It always seems to me that the 'news' is pretty much the same as last time I looked. Not a lot of any significance has changed. So I just stop watching and listening to it and feel better for it. When the war in Ukraine comes to an end for example, I will hear about it from friends or posts somewhere. It isn't that I am not concerned, just that I don't want or need to be engaged by reading regular statistics and analyses, most of which only fill me with feelings of helplessness and worry.
A last thought that might help us when we get, for example, angry or frustrated. Acknowledge the feeling and ask yourself how long you need to feel that way before you are ready to move on from it? Five minutes, an hour, all day? You want to be pissed-off for hours and project that out into the world? Fine. Your choice. If only I took my own advice more often!
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BX93kaQ2cCfabrGilJcLe?si=T_5rU0ACRiiEI3EcKBLBRA
Also good