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Bowed late last night (more like early this morning) because I knew we’d be getting up super early and traveling today. Bowing at the end of the day had a very different feel: since I was wide awake and had plenty on my mind before I started, my bows actually provided me with some insight into a seemingly insurmountable challenge that I had been working on before I began my practice. I’ve mentioned before that bowing can be very meditative, and often if I don’t consciously direct my focus, my mind will naturally turn to whatever it deems as most important to me at that time. I was grateful and excited that my practice yielded something so helpful – ultimately it helped me switch my entire perspective on something, which resulted in feelings of hope and calm, as opposed to the anxiety and frustration I’d been wading through just minutes before.
Really amazing. From this experience, and from a few over the past few days, I’m thinking of adopting a new rule: if I’m ever rendered so emotional, by something like a conversation or email, that my emotions take over my mind, before I respond, I’d like to meditate on the emotion so that I can accept it and release it, and then respond in a clear-headed manner. I have a feeling it will save me oodles of time and oodles of emotional energy, and ultimately make me a much happier human.
