For
reasons I will tell you about later (nothing serious), I may not be
blogging for a few days. But I will be presumptuous enough to ask you
to participate in an open thread (using the comments link below) on the
subject of Resilience.
We
who understand (at least a little) the shape our world is in, have a lot
of work to do. To do that, we need to stay flexible, agile, resilient.
We need to keep our perspective and our objectivity. We need to be
brutally honest with ourselves and with others. If we get too fixed in
our thinking, rigid, uncompromising, doctrinaire, or if we get
sidetracked by the minutiae of the modern world, trivial matters that
may evoke some visceral response in us, but which in the long run are
of no consequence and simply waste time and energy, we will be opening
ourselves up to illness and injury we cannot afford.
How then, I would like to know, do you maintain your resilience?
How do you stay open-minded yet centered, focused yet able to let go of
things that no longer merit holding onto? There are some obvious ways:
meditation and other relaxation/awareness techniques, and physical
exercise, both aerobic, to keep energy levels and stamina high, and
anaerobic, to keep your posture good and your muscles flexible and
relaxed. Spending time in nature, or, perhaps for some of you, in spiritual contemplation is another way.
What else? What do you
do to keep it together, to keep yourself open to ideas and ideologies
of others, without, as ee cummings put it, "becoming everyone else"?
How do you manage to roll with the punches, without becoming so
unfocused that you just blow in the wind, directionless?
Back soon. In the meantime, be good to yourself, and to others. |
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