Many of us are becoming fatigued with dealing with fear, anger, uncertainty, angst, and a feeling of being unsettled, as a result of dealing with the Coronavirus, and all that is unsettled in our communities, our cities, and our politics. “Zoom fatigue” (as wonderful as Zoom is to help us connect - in work, family and friends) is a new coined phrase.
Meditation may be difficult for many of us while we deal with fatigue and notice an increase in our minds wandering and our inability to focus.
Then, while contemplating ideas for this newsletter and noting my desire to give you something to support you as a reset for your resolve for meditation, and to help re-charge your energy; I found myself in a meditation of
Gratitude, Joy and Beauty.
Why is it so difficult to spend even five to ten minutes a day noticing with gratitude the joy and beauty in our lives? We are hard wired to focus and register our attention on negative threats. This “negativity bias” would serve critical evolutionarily adaptive functions
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It is also argued that there is a function of negativity bias in early development, evident especially in research on infant social referencing, but also in other developmental domains
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