NDE Multimedia Resource Thread

My emotional reactions to those that I don’t admire, or actively dislike, are likely to be fear based too. I wonder if I ought to be troubled by them, try to decrease their presence, or if I should more readily accept them? 

Fear appears to be a ‘problem’. Our thoughts seem to be a bigger problem, and one we can do something about.

I think meditation is an approach. It can include accepting without judgement, just letting things be. And also, it can mean calming all thoughts, learning to stop thinking. Together I've found these aspects beneficial for many aspects of life.

But life does get in the way sometimes. I remember when I first started a serious job, after a long period without work, I felt very calm. I would look around the room when we had team meetings, I saw stress of various types, different flavours, on the faces of each person. As a newcomer, I was very calm, somehow not caught up in all of that. But after working in that job for many years, I got caught up in all of that stress too. Making space, setting time aside for meditation is easy to say, but not always so easy to do, unless one is very careful to allocate some time for it, giving oneself permission to 'do nothing'. (Though it is not just doing nothing.)