By David Gelles — 2017
Recognize and respect that anger is happening. It’s part of the human experience.
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CLEAR ALL
Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.
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Usually, we are not, in fact, upset about the facts. We are upset about our interpretations of the facts, and particularly, when we take these facts to mean we are being attacked or rejected in some way.
You don't have to tie yourself in knots to meditate, nor chant unintelligible mantras. Quelling your unruly babble of thoughts in order to focus on the silence within is as simple as one to five, as Andrew Purvis discovers.
In the Middle Ages people were well aware of the inexhaustible power that arises simply from sitting still. After that time, knowledge of the purifying power of stillness and its practice was, in the West, largely lost.