No Sweat. How You're Quietly Evolving. Dear Friend,
Here's some good news and some bad news. First the bad news; not for you obviously, but for Joe Public on Oxford Street.
Earlier this week an opinion piece was published in the New York Times by David Wallace-Wells, the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.
In it he points out that although major droughts and flooding caused by a warming planet in different parts of the world may grab newspaper headlines, it's the silent and invisible, slow-burn environmental risks that should be of concern.
Not all environmental risks though are due to temperature increase according to a study in the British Medical Journal about environmental risk and non-communicable diseases. It could be chemical pollutants in the water or air; it could be your diet as well as the office lighting and air-conditioning you sit in when you go to work.
The good news is that on the whole, at least in the short-term, most people are resilient. The even better news is that your meditation practice makes you even more resilient.
You already knew this, but now science backs it up. The way that environmental risk leads to detriment and disease is through the human genome. In this study by Italian scientists : Molecules of Silence: Effects of Meditation on Gene Expression and Epigenetics , it is shown how meditation protects the human genome.
The forms of meditation investigated in the research were mindfulness practices. And what works for mindfulness also works for the mind-empty practice of your kundalini meditation.
The added advantage of the kundalini meditation is that it leads to a permanent shift in awareness and is en-masse which is the definition of evolution. More below:
Also below: A preview of a short film entered for the 2024 Oscars that will pluck at your heart strings; and, how to cut down on coffee using your meditation.
Best wishesP. PS. Moon Calendar (at end) this coming week: Tue. 27th February - Sankashti Chaturthi (Long difficulty, quickly overcome). |
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