When anxiety takes you by surprise, these strategies will help you catch your breath and calm your mind.ġ. Even years of meditation or yoga practice, however, aren’t always enough to handle the challenges of the modern world. Training yourself in times of nonstress becomes increasingly important, because you build up those practices for accessing calm quickly. This mediation focuses on Healing Through Hope. Also, hope is the best “partner” in helping people overcome obstacles or loss and see their worlds through a different lens.Įnjoy this guided audio meditation practice by our CEO, Rose Felix Cratsley. Often, hope serves as the catalyst to uncover forgotten strengths, to begin to see possibilities, and to create and sustain change. Having the ability to look forward keeps us moving forward, and hope plays an important role in this process. Hope opens doors and has the power to sustain us through the most difficult of times and circumstances. This process, is fundamental to the widely accepted “placebo effect,” which is created by a hopeful outlook. Researchers are learning that a change in mind-set has the power to alter neurochemistry.įurther research also showed that during the course of illness, belief and expectation - two mental states associated with hope - have an impact on the nervous system which, in turn, sets off a chain reaction that makes improvement and recovery more likely. The positive physiological effects of hope are well-supported. The primordially pure natural state is spontaneously present, The kāyas and pure realms appear without obstruction, And the mother and child luminosities merge as one.Hope is defined as “the feeling of cherishing a desire with anticipation, trust and belief in fulfillment”.
Complete with the five wisdoms, it radiates fully. The self-radiance of empty yet cognizant dharmakāya is clear. The radiance of the union of appearance and emptiness blazes. It is not non-existent because it thinks, sees and experiences. It is not existent because it turns into emptiness. You cannot pinpoint any essence of mind, And yet thoughts and impressions still arise. But the experience of seeing turns into emptiness. In motion, it does not disappear but returns to its own place. Even without arms and legs, it runs about everywhere.
You can set it in motion, but it returns to its own natural state. You can steady it, but it moves aimlessly and unimpededly. This inseparable awareness and emptiness is pervasive like space. It is not a void, but is cognizant and clear. It is not seen by looking, but is emptiness. That is how it is when the nature of mind is determined.Įmaho! Mind itself has always been without substance. There’s no acceptance or rejection and no form of doubt. There’s no hope or fear, no self-clinging, joy or sorrow. Your own mind then is inseparable from the Buddha, The kayas and pure realms manifest inseparably. And even as you maintain that state without distraction, Out of the experience of dharmakāya-emptiness There dawns the clear light of spontaneous presence. The dharmakāya of your own undistracted mind And the dharmakāya of the buddhas’ wisdom mind Are inseparably united in the experience of clear light. There’s no need to correct or to alter anything, because you remain in the state of clear light.
Even in change there is no change, because awareness is as pervasive as space. Even in distraction, there is no distraction, because the nature of mind is sufficiently strong. There’s no need to meditate, because the nature of the mind naturally retains its hold. When the natural state of mind is clearly determined, There’s no need to look, because clear light dawns naturally. They do not arise to those who have already determined it, so now I shall briefly explain how it is for them: These ways in which the mind reveals itself occur only for beginners who haven’t yet determined the natural state of mind.