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I want to talk about what is happening right now in the world and more importantly talk about what is happening within us because we can maintain our inner peace regardless of what's going on around us. And so that's what I'm hoping we can tap into

is how are you doing internally?

We talk a lot in our monthly groups about pain's inevitable suffering is optional.

And the full equation, so to speak, is pain plus resistance equals suffering.

Pain in life is inevitable, growing old, getting sick, dying.

But if you resist change, if you resist what is happening,

it's the resistance itself that causes the anguish, that create the turmoil within us that makes it really

hard to deal with what's happening. I think it would be unfair to say there isn't some I don't want to say the word struggle because this is not a

struggle per se it's a shift we're simply being asked to keep something from boiling over so to speak and perhaps

patience is what we're asked for and maybe that's what's lacking would you say that's what makes this difficult.

Mary Ann said I'm using this time as a reset and it's giving me an opportunity to

slow down and be intentional. I truly believe some changes will be made

after the pandemic. You know what changes are we going to implement in our lives once the quote-unquote ban is lifted. Are we going to continue being

mindful of needs versus wants? Are we going to go right back to our old ways? Are we

going to honor and celebrate how nature has thrived when we reduced the pollution?

How is this going to change us? Someone else said, I was wondering how we could keep aware of the lessons that we have learned during this period when we go back to everyday life.

Judy immediately responded, how about journaling?

Journaling is one thing. I only have a hard time with that because then you have stacks and stacks of journals and none that would actually be reminders and so sticky notes are good for me like putting a note that says need or want. A friend of mine had a difficult time with always going online and I would go as far as to use the word wasting a lot of his time surfing websites and whatnot, social media. And so he set his computer so that when he opens up a

new browser his home screen is an image that says what is the best use of your time

and more often than not as soon as he saw what is the best use of your time? And more often than not, as soon as he saw what is the best use of your time,

he'd be like, well, it's not this.

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