////////////////////////Good Practice When something is painful, stressful, or upsetting, try to slow down to observe your reactions to this suffering. Ask yourself if you are downplaying or denying the parts of life that are hard for you. See what happens if you simply name your reactions to yourself, such as, “This is tiring…that hurts…I’m a little sad…ouch.” Along with this basic acknowledgment, try to have feelings of support and compassion for yourself.
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////////////////////////To keep thinking in wholesome ways will strengthen the tendency of the mind towards what is wholesome. BHIKKHU ANĀLAYO
//////////////////Top-down intentions engage the prefrontal cortex behind the forehead. This part of the brain is the primary neural basis for the executive functions, including deliberate control of attention, emotion, and action. This kind of intention is very useful, but it is effortful and thus vulnerable to willpower fatigue: it’s tiring to have to keep telling yourself to do something. Additionally, the rewards of achieving the intention are deferred into the future, which can sap motivation. On the other hand, bottom-up intention engages your emotions and sensations, drawing on older and therefore more fundamental neural structures below the cortex. In this form of intention, you find a felt sense of what it would be like to have already fulfilled the intention, and then give yourself over to it. This feels rewarding already, and therefore more motivating. Instead of struggling upstream, you feel carried along.
//////////////////////Warmhearted feelings are naturally soothing and settling. One source of this is the neurochemical oxytocin, which is released by the hypothalamus when you’re feeling loving or close to others. Oxytocin activity in the amygdala can have an inhibitory effect, calming it down. As flows of oxytocin increase in the prefrontal cortex, the sense of anxiety usually decreases, which enables a greater stability of attention.
////////////////////////With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart: above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without hostility or hate. SUTTA NIPATA 1.8
////////////////////////There are those who do not realize that one day we all must die. But those who do realize this settle their quarrels. DHAMMAPADA 6
/////////////////////////////If people knew, as I know, the results of giving and sharing, they would not eat without having given, nor would they allow the stain of stinginess to obsess them and root in their minds. ITIVUTTAKA 26
////////////////////////Compassion involves sensitivity to suffering, a caring response, and a desire to help if one can. Self-compassion simply applies all this to yourself. Studies show that self-compassion has many benefits, including reducing self-criticism and increasing resilience, a sense of worth, and a willingness to try new things and to be ambitious. Extending compassion to yourself will not make you self-centered. In fact, it usually has the opposite effect.
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///////////////////Compassion is bittersweet: there is the bitter of the suffering and the sweet of the caring.
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Pick people you do not know, such as people in line at a store, and in your mind take some moments to offer compassion and kindness to them.
////////////////////Understanding suffering means much more than having ideas about it. It means recognizing it with respect and an open heart, whether it is subtle or anguished, in yourself or in others. Sometimes it is in plain sight: your head is throbbing with a migraine, you’re worried about your mother in the hospital, or there’s the familiar shadow of weariness or depression. But much of our suffering is buried deep down, embedded in younger layers of the psyche.
///////////////////////A central Buddhist teaching is generally translated as All conditioned things are suffering. “Conditioned” is a shorthand way of saying that something exists due to various causes; it didn’t just pop into being out of nowhere. For example, a wooden chair is the result of many factors, including the trees it came from and the people who made it. The sensations of breathing are also the result of many factors, such as the circuitry of the nervous system and whether you just took a big breath. In turn, these causes are themselves conditioned by their causes…ultimately widening out into the universe and back into time.
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