Submitted by Dr. Robert F. Lane on
When you decide what direction your journey will take, find a fellow traveler, a friend or a mentor, or someone on the track ahead of you. While you’re at it, get out the bucket list you made in the first stretch and start punching it. Be intentional about both the journey and the list, and schedule them. But remember that memories of what you have done are not nearly as good as hopes of what you will do. Perhaps the journey will reveal hopes that disease and time cannot erase.
Many find that first thing in the morning is a great journey time for reading, reflecting and journaling. Try it. Make it a habit if you can and as your time comes to an end focus on the very day that is before you, on the precious present, and what you can do with it – never let what is impossible corrupt what is.
MEDITATION: THE ROLE OF MINDFULNESS
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment” writes Jon Kabat-Zinn *22. Some find his thoughts helpful in their quest for physical and spiritual healing. One advocate who found meditation very helpful described it to me as sort of like prayer but directed inward toward his own mind. His wife agreed but countered that its limitation was that it left success all up to him whereas prayer recruited divine power to guide and intercede in her thoughts, relationships and the biology of her body. Her experience was that prayer provided for her a peace that continues even when she is too tired to pray or meditate. She found comfort in believing it was not all up to her. Clearly they are on a journey together. It will be fascinating to speak to them in a few years
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