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From Bouncing Back by Linda Graham
“When we find the space between the stimulus and the response, we alter the rhythm of our doing; we wake up and create space for being.
Awareness is the knowing, not the contents that are known.
We can experience it as a vast sky that can hold all the clouds and storms moving through it.
We usually pay more attention to the contents of clouds and storms than to the sky that contains them.
As the Zen teaching tells us, when we are in a contracted state of mind, it’s like looking at the sky through a pipe.
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With mindfulness of awareness, we become adept at putting down the pipe and looking at the whole sky again.“
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My two cents: Even with PTSD I have developed an awareness practice.
It transports me out of dissociation and back to this moment.
Develop all the tools you can.
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