Mind-Quiet

In lieu of my (early) quarter life crisis, I have been finding ways to lower my stress and anxiety about life in general and the unknown future. I’ve been reading this book called The Buddha Walks into a Bar (by Lodro Rinzler) that teaches how to use Buddhist techniques to live a positive and compassionate life. I’ve been meditating every day as well. Meditating has been the mind-quiet I’ve been craving. For 20 minutes a day, I get to focus on breathing and emptying my mind of stress and anxiety. Because of that daily 20 minutes, I have a steadier and healthier mind to face every situation. Buddhism also teaches you to awaken your heart to peoples’ suffering. Meaning that we all struggle with internal battles and to help ourselves we need to help others.

In addition, I have been listening to The Power on audiobook. The Power is a supplement to The Secret (by Rhonda Bryne) which is basically a guide to living the happiest, most fulfilling life you were born to have. (Thank you Rachel Dratch for the suggestion of this book and to my best friend for letting me borrow Rachel Dratch’s book in the first place). The main points of The Power are:

·         Positive thoughts = Positive actions

·         What you give out is what you get back

·         Love is the reason for every good thing

·         Visualize what you want, love what you want and the laws of attraction will bring it to you

·         Be grateful for EVERYTHING

All in all, this quarter-life crisis has led me to finding my path in life. My search has brought me to meditation and visualization. From there I finally feel hopeful and motivated for everything coming my way because I am willing it to come to me.

Through this early stage of my journey to live my imagined life, I have found why I sometimes isolate myself from people. It is because I see and feel their suffering and it breaks my heart that they’re hurt and I can’t reverse the pain. But I realize that, although I may not be able to remove the pain, I can ease some of it. And because of this revelation, I know that whatever I do in life needs to involve my passion to help people.

Someone who I love and adore very much told me over the weekend that I have the biggest, most caring heart in the world. It was the most wonderful compliment I’ve ever heard. Even though I don’t know what’s coming my way, I do know it’ll be exactly what I need and have been imagining for my life.

(fingers crossed this imagined life starts with a puppy)