Yet another absolutely awesome article, thank you, Andy!
A side-effect of paying close attention to one's breathing even for a single breath, of course, as you well know, is that doing so diverts or lifts some or all of our ?psychic energy away from our monkey mind, our language centers, our thinking/emoting mind, the ultimate source of all our worries and woes, anxieties and miseries.
While general anesthetics such as nicotine, alcohol, opioids etc. can suppress fear by suppressing thinking (even while causing an intitial disinhibitory phase before their overall depressive effects manifest), a more sustainable and invigorating and joyful way of ultimately escaping the tyrranies of our minds is to cease thinking while remaining fully conscious - by such simple tricks as paying close attention to one's breathing.
At the risk of sounding like a (nother) broken record, this can obviously empower us to make ever longer and more enlightened leaps from the spinning karmic wheel of broken-record, anxiety-producing, mind-dominated, stressfilled....LIFE!
Heart and soulfelt thanks for all yoru wonderful work and writings, not to mention for all the sufferings and sacrifices which drove you to wish to so generously and freely share your many healing insights with us all, Andy!
Tom.
"I know exactly where I am: I was lost here before."
The lost here before quote, Andy, is all of ours, methinks, but I came across it as a Southern CA bumper sticker before adopting it.
I reckon it's up there with "SINCE I GAVE UP ALL HOPE....I feel a LOT better," and with the late, great Spike Milligan's gravestone epitaph: I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL!"
And, of course, with Val's "I'm your huckleberry!"
I have hardly a doubt but that Val has since been scooped up by any number of Valkyries and now resides in Valhalla...nor ANY doubt but that each and every one of us can and will co-create Heaven right here in Earth - once we give up all hope of ever not being permanently lost here!
Yet another absolutely awesome article, thank you, Andy!
A side-effect of paying close attention to one's breathing even for a single breath, of course, as you well know, is that doing so diverts or lifts some or all of our ?psychic energy away from our monkey mind, our language centers, our thinking/emoting mind, the ultimate source of all our worries and woes, anxieties and miseries.
While general anesthetics such as nicotine, alcohol, opioids etc. can suppress fear by suppressing thinking (even while causing an intitial disinhibitory phase before their overall depressive effects manifest), a more sustainable and invigorating and joyful way of ultimately escaping the tyrranies of our minds is to cease thinking while remaining fully conscious - by such simple tricks as paying close attention to one's breathing.
At the risk of sounding like a (nother) broken record, this can obviously empower us to make ever longer and more enlightened leaps from the spinning karmic wheel of broken-record, anxiety-producing, mind-dominated, stressfilled....LIFE!
Heart and soulfelt thanks for all yoru wonderful work and writings, not to mention for all the sufferings and sacrifices which drove you to wish to so generously and freely share your many healing insights with us all, Andy!
Tom.
"I know exactly where I am: I was lost here before."
Thanks Tom! Such insightful, encouraging, and inspiring words!! And so much truth! Love it 🙏
Is that quote yours? It’s so profound!
The lost here before quote, Andy, is all of ours, methinks, but I came across it as a Southern CA bumper sticker before adopting it.
I reckon it's up there with "SINCE I GAVE UP ALL HOPE....I feel a LOT better," and with the late, great Spike Milligan's gravestone epitaph: I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL!"
And, of course, with Val's "I'm your huckleberry!"
I have hardly a doubt but that Val has since been scooped up by any number of Valkyries and now resides in Valhalla...nor ANY doubt but that each and every one of us can and will co-create Heaven right here in Earth - once we give up all hope of ever not being permanently lost here!
Thank YOU for ALL the loving Inspirations, Mate!
Most sincerely wishing you mirth and more,
Tom
Thanks Tom! I love it 🙏