Mindfulness For Reactivity: New Snow

I'm not going to be out here for too long because it's quite cold.

But it's snowing outside,

And I thought,

I could share.

One psychological perspective or reframe on anxiety or fear or reactivity.

That's pretty helpful.

You could imagine the feeling.

Being at the top of a snowy mountain the snowy hill And when you feel a reactivity in whatever way it presents itself to you,

There's a pull to just go down the hill.

And you find yourself going down the hill in these really familiar ruts.

There are these ruts from your past.

That are deeply entrenched in the snow.

And so kind of no matter where you take off,

You find yourself sliding back into those familiar ruts,

Familiar patterns of behavior that maybe ultimately are regrettable.

But they provide some satisfaction,

Some soothing,

Some numbing in the present moment.

And then the practice of mindfulness.

Is like the cultivation of your ability to just stand at the top of the snowy hill.

And allow new snow to fall.

And the more that you just stay there,

In the feeling of reactivity without doing anything about it.

The more new snow will fall.

And the more those old ruts will just fill up,

Fill up,

Fill up with new snow.

And then the more possibility you have to take a new path.

So just some encouragement.

To maybe sometimes not do anything when you feel the urge to have to do something right away and to imagine and feel that new snow is falling the longer you stay with the feeling.