A student reflects on how the mind's constant storytelling and analysis, driven by survival and avoidance, prevents presence and genuine connection.
A student reflects on how the mind's constant storytelling and analysis, driven by survival and avoidance, prevents presence and genuine connection.
All these stories and beliefs are just our minds attempting to make sense of everything. Our nonstop analysis of everything, so that we can survive, so we can avoid fear, so we can avoid pain, prevents us from being in the present, from connecting with others and feeling the whole of interconnectedness.
Yes.