Three questions can help a person consider whether and how to say something:
- Is it true?
- Is it beneficial?
- Does it forge connection?
Our friendship is made
of being awake
~ Rumi
I have an invitation for you. It’s free and it’s playful – an interesting way to be reflective as well as pause and see the world. It’s a mindfulness practice I made up called “Vital Haiku.” It involves pairing a photograph with a haiku, both created by you.
“Good” happens all the time, but humans are programmed to see the negative. Our ancient survival instinct taught us that if we don’t stay wary and alert to what could harm us, we die sooner. Though this kind of vigilance is not so necessary in modern American life, negativity bias persists as part of our neural pathways. In order to counteract our natural bias, we have to actively practice seeing the good. Then, to hold onto it, to embody the good, we also have to practice the pause.
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