Neurodharma by Rick Hanson

Author:Rick Hanson [Hanson, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published: 2020-05-05T00:00:00+00:00

Good Practice

Recognize that whatever happened a few minutes ago is no longer here. It’s gone. Its effects may linger, but what was reality a few years or days or even seconds ago is no longer reality now. You could explore your reactions to this recognition. Is it alarming? Sad? Freeing?

Also recognize that whatever might happen in a minute or in a year is not real now. Let this sink in as an experience, not just an idea. Open to feeling that whatever you fear or hope in the future does not exist now. How does this feel?

After something surprising has happened—it could be as simple as the doorbell ringing—rewind the “movie” of the first few seconds after it occurred. What happened in your mind during those seconds? Can you recognize alerting and orienting within the first second? Can you see evaluating and acting then coming online? These aspects of attention can happen so quickly that it feels like they overlap, but you can still tease them apart.

Deliberately rest in alerting and orienting…not needing to know or control anything…only receiving the freshness of the present moment.

Take refuge in one or more things. You could do this when you first wake up or when you go to bed, or make it part of your meditation.

See what happens when you regard a relationship, a situation, or yourself as more like a cloud than a brick. In other words, as an eddy: changing, made of parts, and swirling along based on the different currents moving through it. How does this feel?

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