‘5 Minutes a Day’ – a meditation for receiving global news
A special practice developed and offered by Thomas Hübl and Medium.com.
How can I learn to receive the world as it is? How can I become more responsible as a consumer, citizen, human being? To support the building of a growing interior space in us, we’re setting up a small but regular feed of news designed to let the world touch us and take place when it is difficult, cruel, and challenging.
Our daily news sources are fraught with overload and many of us struggle to keep reading and watching at all. We seem to be seeing too much, browsing too many topics and hearing too many conflicting and complex accounts of current events to even keep up intellectually. However, the intellectual challenge is only one part. Once we start to really relate with the news we connect emotionally and physically. Only then, we contend, will we start to comprehend on a level that invites responsibility and change in behavior.
The practice of letting news enter a contemplative space could allow us to care.
How to practice 5 Minutes a Day
We invite you to a simple, everyday practice, which has the potential to enable you to receive the world news not only intellectually, but also emotionally and physically, in other words as a whole human being.
All you need is to set aside 5 minutes and do the following:
· Be in a quiet, comfortable place. Set your timer to 5 minutes.
· Close your eyes and collect yourself for a few breaths
· Look at the image or the headline which is your object of contemplation (either one from this publication or any news you have in front of you.)
· Observe your reactions.
What is your first impression when looking at the image?
How far can you open yourself to it? Can you create a relation between the image and yourself? Does your mind react to it? Can you get in touch with your emotions? How does your body feel? Stay with whatever you encounter and observe as consciously as possible how your mind and senses interact with the image/headline.
Try not to search for an interpretation. Don’t try to position yourself intellectually to the subject. Just expose yourself to the raw impressions. Notice when you feel overwhelmed, agitated, or numb. Don’t change anything. Just observe and stay with your focus on the experience.
Learn more at Medium.com
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