by Monk Anchorwind | 22 Jun, 2022 | Observational |
What is relaxation? Relaxation is the state of not pursuing change. Relaxation is essential for our health as we cannot be working towards anything all the time. There are periods when we need to allow things to be as they are and rest. Letting Go is the conscious...
by Monk Anchorwind | 29 Mar, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Rest is doing any activity, including none, for which we feel better having done. How often do we engage in things which make us feel worse? Trying to understand why we do this is unanswerable; the sheer number of reasons is beyond our ability to count and...
by Monk Anchorwind | 21 Mar, 2022 | Dear Diary |
I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘peace.’ It is easy to think of peace as the absence of stress, but when is there truly no stress? We can divert our attention away from something, but it still exists outside our focus. Generally speaking, tensions do...
by Monk Anchorwind | 11 Mar, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, I just wrote (In my Dear Diary, What is Rest piece), ‘I think of rest as being in a state of peace.’ However, I felt I was vastly understating my feelings. I couldn’t find the words to elaborate upon rest and peace. What is peace? Peace...
by Monk Anchorwind | 10 Mar, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, What does it mean to rest? What is rest? Is rest something we do actively? As I get deeper into my meditations about healing, I am learning I am abysmal at resting. When my pain level rises beyond usual daily limitations, I try to figure out how to relax...
by Monk Anchorwind | 1 Feb, 2022 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Whether we agree with our upbringing or rebel against it, it shapes us in ways not easily understood. I was brought up in an age of capitalism wherein climbing the mobility ladder and pulling it up behind you was just a Tuesday. Climate change reports...
by Monk Anchorwind | 1 Dec, 2021 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, All of us, at one point or another, lost hope. I wrote earlier, “Hope is the mechanism for meaning.” By losing hope, we destroyed or no longer invested in the meaning of ourselves and the situation. We devolved back into basic survival...
by Monk Anchorwind | 2 Nov, 2020 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, unfortunately, writing has been almost impossible lately. For people on the outside looking in, allow me to give a bit of insight. With my mental limitations, it is extraordinarily difficult, if not practically impossible, to pre-plan my writings with...
by Monk Anchorwind | 26 Aug, 2020 | Dear Diary |
Dear Diary, Passion Pulls Me From The Path I failed yet again. While my heart was in the right place, I also went about it erroneously. The 2016 Election season sent me down a dark path, and I told myself I was not going to let myself do it again in 2020. Here I...
