What are you doing right now?

At this moment, I am sitting at home by the river writing this article. There is water flowing quietly outside the window, and the energy is balanced and stable. Taking a sip of hot tea and listening to "ranch house" by Hata Tazoushi, I felt comfortable and at ease.

This Christmas I finally had the rare opportunity to participate in the "Calm Zen Dance Workshop" led by teacher Qing Ya. This bookmark was drawn and made by Teacher Qingya herself. 20 companions came forward to draw their own bookmarks in turn. Each one is different, and you will only draw the one that belongs to you. Teacher Qingya said: This sentence may clear up the fog in your heart, whether it is present or in the future.

"Keep your mouth shut when in a group, but keep your heart when alone." I picked up this sentence and stared at it quietly for a long time.

When I first took a psychology course five years ago, the teacher said: The body is much smarter than the mind. Listen to the body and follow the body, and the answers to many questions will emerge on their own. The water surface...

I didn’t understand the meaning of this sentence at that time. Until this Zen dance meditation class, the teacher played a series of music, which was ethereal and powerful, sad and sad, and full of beautiful innocence. It was soul-shaking... After that, we were asked to close our eyes, clear our minds, and fully immerse ourselves in the atmosphere of the music. We didn't need to think with our heads, but felt with our hearts, and let our bodies dance to our heart's content. In our memory, we had never been able to do this as we pleased when we were very young. A moment of total presence. I discovered that everyone is a born dancer.

Our body can originally dance, but due to the limitations of the mind and thinking, it does not dare, cannot, or is unwilling to dance with all its heart. Through meditation and Zen dance, we reconnect our body and mind, our inner wisdom is awakened, and our life force is activated...

Everyone can find a meditation method that suits them. I have always had the habit of yoga and meditation. , in fact, dance meditation, yoga and meditation are all good ways of meditation, which can help you get rid of the delusions in your mind and live in the present moment.

A friend shared her daily practice. After getting up every morning, she would listen to her favorite music and let her body dance freely, and then do 30 minutes of meditation. This practice has become a daily routine. Ritual can help her enter her daily life in the best state and with the clearest awareness.

In the "Yin Yang Dance" section, the teacher played a piece of wonderful music. The first half was soft and soothing, as pure as water, and the second half gradually transitioned to ethereal and powerful, with a faint sense of power, which was very similar to " Yin and Yang” and “two genders” qualities. The teacher asked everyone to voluntarily go to the center of the stage to perform a performance dance. After the song, many people sat down quietly and thought deeply.

Yes, many people care about what others think of them, and often feel pressured by this, and may even set limits on themselves and develop restrictive thinking; many people do not follow their hearts when making choices. The voice is based on fear and fear - fear of what others will think of me, fear of what others will say about me; many people live in a small circle their entire lives without even opening the windows, let alone the door.

Actually, you don’t have that many viewers.

The scale of the world is directly proportional to the size of a person's mind. Therefore, we live in the same world and in different worlds. Everyone focuses on the world they project, and not many people really pay attention to you - a lot of pressure and restrictions come from your own imagination.

Even if you have read so many books and taken so many classes, you will still have negative emotions, you will still encounter annoying people and things, you will still see the filthiness of the world, and the people around you will still have... A place that makes you unbearable. Well, accept them and allow everything to be.

"Always trying to control and change is the source of all pain." Don't be persistent, don't insist, make yourself softer, and no longer "have to do this, have to do that". Allow some people to love me and some not to love me, allow everything to go smoothly, and accept the uncontrollable parts, allow the world to be beautiful, and accept the shadow parts, and allow myself to let go and relax a little more.

The world we live in is like Tai Chi, holding the yin and embracing the yang, repeating the cycle: without darkness, there is no light; without pain, there is no happiness; without sorrow and death, there is no growth...

When you notice emotions and thoughts arising, all you need to do is to be aware of them quickly and pay attention quietly. Don’t try to change it or drive it away, because the more you resist, the more you inject it into it. More energy will only intensify this uncomfortable feeling. Just look at it gently and tell her: I am aware of you and I am willing to be with you. When you do this, you will clearly feel that the emotions are softened, released and cleaned up, thus eliminating...< /p>

When the light of "awareness" shines in, everything is quietly changing.

Whether it is emotions, thoughts, or various belief systems among people in society, this is the truth. When you realize that the source of your emotions is due to your own belief, when you see As long as it exists, its influence on you will gradually weaken until it disappears.

Many books on the mind, body and soul mention a similar point of view: a large part of people's pain and troubles come from "living in the past and future".

In other words, our passionate and precious life is lost in regretting the past, worrying about the future, comparing today, caring about others, and judging ourselves...

Many mentors will mention "living in the present" , in fact, whether it is mindfulness meditation, meditation, meditation, walking meditation... they all talk about the same truth: life is only in the present moment, life is in this second, in this moment, every breath and every breath. The body is much smarter than the mind. The body and breath are always in the present moment. Therefore, the way to live in the present moment is actually very simple: maintaining awareness of the breath and body is to be deeply connected to the present moment.

Silence can bring about wisdom. The most famous thing in Jobs's office was his "Zen Room." After graduation, he practiced spiritual practice in India for two years. After that, his life began to change. Every time he felt his thoughts wandering, he would come to his Zen room. I went to the room and began to meditate, and many great ideas appeared there.

I once felt a deep, deep silence while meditating after yoga, a state of no sadness, no joy, no thoughts and no thoughts... At that moment, there were many things that I couldn't usually think about. , seemed to suddenly become enlightened.

After the course ended, we each went home and continued our daily lives. Everything happened over and over again, and nothing seemed to change. But I vaguely feel that life will be different in the future, I know it.