Stormy life events

 We go through stormy sessions in our life.

This hectic schedule, bulk of which is about the 'situation' that drives you, pushes you to the limits ( what our mind aptly describes it  as "just surviving the storm" 😂),....

has certain advantages as well, only if we "had-happened" to use our tools of awareness and alertness.

In fact these 2 tools get invoked during that "storm" ( crazy navigation for survival leaves us with no choice about using our alertness and awareness). 🤣

Then what is the point?

Focus.
Where is our focus during a storm which has gripped us? Maneuvering 'somehow' isn't it? We 'feel choiceless about focus on  quality of our performance. Even an Olympic sprinter does a mad -run when chased by a tiger( he simply forgets about track-technique, breath-management, foot-work, optimizing elbow swinging....etc.  Ofcourse, he invariably does better than average common people, merely because of muscle memory, acquired over years of practice, in running for sports-racing. His focus is on survival from tiger,  not about creating a world record😜)

What if.....
We had already practiced adequately, to maintain a bit of self-awareness? This self-awareness, can co-exist parallel to our activities on the outside, whether hectic or normal-paced 🙏
Without that self-awareness, the "advantage" of any stormy-session  is out-of-reach!

Self awareness is a powerful defense against the vulnerability to emotional imbalance. We are equipped to be forewarned about likelihood of losing our emotional balance. 🙂
An emotionally balanced mind handles even-a-storm better than otherwise🙏.

And, during a drive through a storm.....the susceptibility to losing our emotional balance is highest ever!

Self awareness helps recalling of even-minor details of the experience during storm, when we are in a calm-after storm. Recalling of memory in a cohesive-sequence helps immensely for learning and value addition. Compare this with an imbalance of emotion, which snatches away our ability to even properly store the events in memory ? Recalling meaningfully is out of question. All we remember is how-mad-we-were 😰😜🤣🤣

Calmly yours,

psn (23 October 2024)