Fear isn’t when the situation dwarfs us.
Fear is when we refuse to accept that fact.
Anger isn’t when the situation discomforts us.
Anger is when we refuse to accept that fact.
Grief isn’t when a loved one leaves us.
Grief is when we refuse to accept that fact.
And that’s natural.
That denial is a mental defense mechanism
to protect its sanity against a shock.
What’s NOT natural,
is to MAINTAIN that denial further.
That’s when we play a game with ourselves.
That’s when we concretize an unreal role for ourselves.
That’s when we dupe ourselves.
Mindfulness isn’t emotionlessness.
That’d be mindlessness.
Mindfulness isn’t even a demand to face reality
emotionally unchallenged. That’s absurd.
Mindfulness is when we note the e-motion;
but we continue with the motion of reality.
Mindfulness is when we note what’s happening;
what it does to us; which beliefs it hits;
and where we get a pang of denial;
AND then we move on.
We don’t continue the denial.
We make a conscious choice to walk out of it.
Mindfulness is when we remember
it’s not necessary to stay frozen in one moment.
The moment has already passed.
And if the goal is to get back to strength,
wisdom is to accept the truth that
what happened doesn’t have to stop us.
From being our natural selves.
Mindfulness is when we keep it real.
© Counselor Apoorva
Psychologist
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