Making Peace With Dread

Maybe it sounds ridiculous, but I feel like dread is a good strategy these days. When I’m noticing it, it’s reminding me to course-correct, away from all the aversion I’m feeling and back to checking in, with myself and everyone else, about what’s going on and how I can help.

Transcript

Okay,

So finding your seat,

Your seat,

And checking in with the body,

Just settling in.

How is,

How is your body this morning?

Connecting with the earth,

Maybe gathering some strength from her,

Moving the attention to the breath,

And just beginning to follow the breath just as a,

As an anchor for the attention.

As you're sitting,

And if anything arises,

Might be dread,

Might be anything,

Arises,

The invitation to just meet whatever is arising with,

With curiosity and just with a kind of peacefulness,

Oh,

You know,

This is what's up right now.

Not changing anything or solving for anything,

Just observing what's present,

Welcoming what's present,

And in that welcoming,

In that maybe field of peace that we can create for whatever is present,

You know,

Seeing if there's some softening,

Seeing if there's some,

Some wisdom that arises,

This amazing thing that happens when we come to the present moment with kindness,

When we meet ourselves with kindness.