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PERCEPTION • Our perceptions happen based on our minds, the mental faculty organ is the immediate perceiving moment of consciousness. In other words, the most consistent thing that sets up our perception is where our mind was before. Where our mind was a moment ago is what set up our perception of the next moment. Just notice, where your mind was a moment ago...

This week let’s practice knowing how to dance.

This week’s letter: The story I’m making up
As I go deeper and deeper into my degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy - Buddhist Psychology combined with the perspective of Western Neuroscience and Contemporary Psychotherapy. It becomes so interesting to me to understand the evolution of our mind while creating a parallel with all the Buddhist Psychology teachings, for instance exploring why we get locked in survival mode, what are the roots and the habitual approaches.
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I know this is a very extensive, complex and detailed topic, however if we look through the lens of mindfulness, the perspective starts to get lighter and wider and as my teacher Joe Loizzo explains: “An unexamined or mindless life locked in survival mode is filled with all kinds of preventable suffering. Most of us know by now that most of the things we think, feel and do are the product of conditioning and habit rather than acts of consciousness. Most the time, this is all good and actually quite helpful, otherwise we would have to master every activity that goes into our daily life over and over again. The problem is, when conditions change or we face a challenge for which our habitual tools are no match, we are often unwilling or unable to override them and try something new. The problem is worse when we discover belatedly that what we’ve learned turns out to be self defeating, but feel so stuck in our rut that we can’t seem to change it. Locked in the survival mode of stress and trauma, our minds and brains revert to a primitive “safe mode” in which we shut down reflection and fall back on the most reflex instincts and habits, mindlessly digging our heels in and holding for dear life”
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This topic brings me to mind a very practical exercise Brene Brown teaches so brilliantly in one of her books which is “The Story I’m Making Up”, if we apply this inquiry and ask ourselves “what is the story i’m making up” about a situation or about our thoughts or emotions when we’re aware and recognize the feeling of being locked in our survival mode/ primitive brain, we can work our way through the story we’re creating in the background. Shifting us from a defensive armored state to (continue bellow)

“In each of our lives we will have periods when it seems that we are the author, with great freedom to choose a direction. And then there will be times when more limited roles must be fulfilled: parent, breadwinner, citizen, community member, contemplative. A mature life requires ability to enter each of the roles given to us. Freedom arises when we hold them lightly, when we see them for what they are.” Jack Kornfield

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