Training the mind. What a workout for practicing Loving-Kindness and Subtlety this past week in the wake of the elections. Good Grief! What I witnessed and experienced through social media was anything but loving, kind or subtle. I am a passionate person and a self admitted hot head at times...can I blame being Italian? LOL Anyway I did think to myself on many occasions "how should I best handle this?" I was being attacked on a personal level! So I thought to the lessons we are learning. I took deep breaths and when I did respond it was from a place of calm. I actually surprised myself on one occasion when before I would have gone off like a brick of C4 I looked beyond myself and saw a bigger picture. So to answer the question as best I can is by understanding and embracing and through contemplative practice control over my thoughts and reactions to them I can take the steps towards calm and peace. I am not sure what my brain waves were doing as I have loaned out my EEG machine but I KNOW how I felt and more importantly how I didn't. I was a very lovely experience.

Peace,

Robin