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Contents
Mindfulness
The Meaning of Suffering
Viktor Frankl’s Story
Takeaway
Hi there readers, so great to have you with us.
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Today’s topic is a little bit heavy, but before we get into it, let’s get into a focused state with some movement meditation.
Mindfulness
In this session, we’d like you to listen to your body.
Pay attention to the points in your body that feel stiff or tense, and move them around freely in whichever motion or pose that you need.
Don’t worry if it “looks” weird. If it “feels” great, then move it that way.
With each action, loudly exhale so that you can tune your breath into your movement.
Now, we are going to play 1 minute of movement music.
And while the music plays — allow your body to flow freely, and instead of focusing on your breath, let it move and flow to its own rhythm.
Are you ready?
Here’s the 1 min music:
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Readers, there’ll be probably a few people who’re going to dislike us for this session.
You might turn your device off, or skip the session, or you might frown in frustration because you can’t respond to us and disagree.
And look, that’s okay because — yeah — we are here to make friends, but we’re also here to provoke thoughts, discussion, and even disagreements sometimes.
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The Meaning in Your Suffering
Recently, we read an article about the useless advice that rich people give out.
Things like:
“Invest every last dollar”, but what if you don’t have a last dollar to invest?
“Save 80% of your salary”, but 100% of your salary goes into rent, groceries, transportation, and there’s nothing left after.
And, of course, the special one :
“There is meaning in suffering. We must all suffer to get to the other side.”
That’s the hard pill to swallow, because the people who’re saying that — are they suffering? Or are they jetting off to their fifth vacation of the year?
Because when you’re suffering continuously for years with no visible way out, where the hell is the meaning in that? What does that even mean exactly?
Well, suffering will occur no matter what you do as you can’t run from it, but you’ll always have a choice here :
You’ll have the choice to be “bitter about it” or to be “better because of it”.
Now readers, we’re not saying this because we woke up this morning and shows controversy — we are saying it because that’s what the experts in every field say.
Philosophers, psychologists, scientists, Dalai Lama, and wildly all successful people.
They all say it!
And the people who have lived through suffering and come out the other side?
They say it too!
We make the mistake of constantly searching for the joy in life — our goals are happiness and fulfillment like that’s some kind of a prize we get at the end of the race, but the only finish line in this race of life is “death”!
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