Source https://zenhabits.net/crazy-times/
By Leo Babauta
These are times of heightened change, disruption, uncertainty, fear, anxiety. It can feel pretty crazy for most of us.
So how do we cope? What can we do in the middle of chaos and crisis?
This is when meditation becomes of critical importance.
Without meditation, we have no way of dealing with the anxieties coming up.
All of our old ways of coping (which don’t normally work very well) are not working at all:
- Distraction and ignoring (how can you ignore something that’s everywhere?)
- Procrastination and avoiding (you can’t avoid this crisis)
- Control of all kinds (you can’t control this, though we’re all trying to find ways to control)
- Exiting, quitting (you can’t exit from the world)
- Complaining, lashing out at others (you can do this, but it only makes the situation worse)
- Worrying (yep, that&…
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