From the Practice
I read an article about climate change that was actually really, really helpful. It was in The New York Times this weekend, last weekend, and it was called How to Stop Freaking Out and Tackle Climate Change. And it gave a set of points about ways of letting go of your own shame and blame for yourself, and finding ways to join effective groups. ⊠the part that I thought was most relevant to us here and in meditation is, she said, know what you’re fighting for, not just what you’re fighting against.
I think that we can get caught in despair quite easily, and we can use our mindfulness practice to be present with it, but we can also use the power of our creativity and our imagination to contemplate the creation of a better world. What do we want to see? And that fuels our ability to be present with what is and to act to make things better.
⊠if you’re feeling something else like, oh no, this isn’t possible, or despair, or disbelief, see if you can just be present with that feeling, letting it be here, but also knowing that we don’t know. We don’t know the future. And we do have the capacity to make change.
The transcript of this practice can be found here.
This meditation is from UCLA Mindful’s Weekly Meditations & Talks. It is shared here with permission.
