Think about it. I don’t know about y’all, but when I’m under stress I retreat into books and movies.
Before my wedding, I spent a good portion of the morning with my nose sunk into Harry Potter. I even read whilst in my wedding dress.
And it dawned on me last night that this practice of mine, my ultimate escape even above and beyond food is forgetting entirely about the real world in a story, is hardly meditative.
Meditation is, I think, a way to be present. To lose yourself IN your self, in your surroundings, in reality, no matter how painful or acute the appropriate emotion is.
Yet I decide to turn my back on reality all the time, in a book. In a TV series.
Is this counterproductive? Should I put down the book and start facing reality more often? Is that why I can easily get through a multi-hour drive, because my mind is completely NOT present?
Can anyone else relate?
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