One Minute Mindfulnes: Letting Go With Compassion

In this talk, Geoff Bell-Devaney discusses ways that we can mindfully accept whatever we might happen to be experiencing with greater compassion and acceptance. In doing this, we can begin more easily letting go and learning from every situation and experience greater insight and peace as a result.

Transcript

No matter our response or reaction to any situation,

We should remember to be gentle with ourselves.

We do not have to hurt ourselves needlessly.

We do not have to live a life of tightness,

Smallness,

And pain because of some uncomfortable experience,

No matter how important it seems at the time.

Perhaps the thing that we're hanging onto and hurting ourselves over will be forgotten in 5,

10,

Or 20 years.

Or perhaps 5,

10,

Or 20 minutes.

Whatever the case,

Why not choose to let it go now and move on with our lives?

Why not embrace the next situation afresh,

Wiser in the knowledge that life has given us?

Why not look around for our next lesson?

Why not touch our souls by being grateful for the patience and commitment that we've shown to ourselves?

Why not continue to grow instead of letting a past hurt or defeat keep us locked in the same old place?

Perhaps we can allow the discomfort of an uncomfortable experience to be within us for a while,

Instead of attempting to silence the feelings life is trying to get us to accept.