[Nas]

This week’s posts brought to you by changing perspectives…

https://psyche.co/ideas/avoiding-sadness-can-backfire-heres-how-to-turn-towards-it

“Whether you tend to avoid, suppress, or judge your sad feelings or not, learning ways to meet and greet this difficult emotion, listen to its needs and find the courage and inner resources to move forward can help make it more bearable. One way you can do this is by learning to shift your vantage point…”

🎶 https://youtu.be/IJFvSj6SYFY?si=PVZ7NkuWRyCxSuR

[UrsaMajor]

This just arrived in my e-mail box courtesy of a subscription I have to the SSJE (Society of Saint John the Evangelist) which is a religious order. They send out an e-mail called "Brother, give us a word" and it is a single word with an interpretation behind it... Today's word is.....

Detachment - Claim your preferences; clarify your hoped-for outcomes; advocate for what you think the right decision. The practice of detachment then allows us to both claim our desires and, simultaneously, to recognize that they may not come to be. Detachment allows us to hold our desires in one open palm and to recognize the outcome might be quite different, maybe even opposite what we hope for or desire. That’s life.