i'm noticing how much people need to hear those things. They're simply ways to step back, as truby was talking about,. Just little techniques that let us take a breath and step out of being caught in things," she says. And the other piece of the way out we have such an individual focus in our culture. Ad just be able to say, when you're feeling stricken by fear, paralyzed in some way, or any kind of intense emotion that's arising in this time... i am joined suddenly with everybody who has ever felt fear, or intense anger, or intense nor, rage, sorrow, whatever it is.
When you’re gripped by anxiety, fear, grief or dread, how do you escape? It can happen in the span of a few breaths, according to meditation experts Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman. They have helped thousands of people find their way out of a mental loop, by moving deeper into it. It's a journey inward that reveals an important lesson for the architects of the attention economy: you cannot begin to build humane technology for billions of users, until you pay careful attention to the course of your own wayward thoughts.