We feel safe inside our ‘we’ boxes. It is easy to think the boundaries of our boxes are brick walls. Yet, a little reflection and some wise questions can help us see how many boxes each ‘I’ can belong to, how boundaries can be permeable and how much we actually share with the very people we may have thought were most ‘different’ from us. The video above is ‘just’ an advert! Yet, so much more than just an advert’ crafted well, based on sound research and extremely thought-provoking. Well done, Denmark!
Take time to watch it, it may make you both cry and smile. Can you spend your day stepping out of some comfortable boxes? Maybe just saying hello to that stranger you usually ignore…What does this have to do with stillness? Well, remember the Rat Park and how closeness to others stops us from unskilful behaviours that damage our health and well being.
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This Daily Stillness has been recycled from previously published ones:
• #tds610 Permeable boundaries bring us together (Mar 1, 2017)
• #tds964 Permeable boundaries bring us together (Feb 18, 2018)
Nick
Do you have a link to the video? It doesnt seem to be working.
Mariana
Well, interesting. It is working and playing fine my end – Safari and Mac. But here is the You Tube link direct which I also checked and works my end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD8tjhVO1Tc&t=2s
Let me know if you still have issues and I will see if it is available on an other platform.
Hope life is being kind to you and yours.
Nick Kearney
Thanks Mariana
The link worked fine.
The lockdown has been a source of stillness, so all quite well here. Hope you are too.