It can feel difficult to wholeheartedly celebrate anything at the moment, humans are relational beings, we need each other to thrive, but Covid19, the climate crisis, systematic bias, inequity, are on a growing list of anxiety inducing triggers that all have the potential to make many of our essential life exchanges problematic.
There are many available forms of mindfulness and meditation, each with some variation to help us expand our consciousness and bring a sense of connectedness to our lives. Mindfulness and meditation is a universal practice to help ease mental, emotional and physical stress, the most valuable part is that it is freely available to everybody, suitable to everybody, and for the most part, just requires intention and breath, very little else! Here at The Possibility Project, we facilitate weekly meditation classes and our teachings are based on insight meditation. We take a topic of general interest, that is, a life theme that we might all associate with, we have a shared 'conversation' regarding how our conditioning, beliefs, cultures and customs might play...
'The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering'. Ben OkriI want to preface this with an opening line we use in our presentations, nothing I'm about to say is scientifically proven, instead, I'm drawing on my own experiences as someone who struggled with the darkness, came through and now devotes much time and purpose to not living 'untruths'. I don't always succeed but thats why we called our social enterprise The Possibility Project (not the 'Positivity' project) because a purposeful existence is one where there are many paths home, not just a happy one. The focus of our social enterprise is mindset...