For people who have been abandoned either literally by actual physical absence or emotionallya parent can be in the home and not there for usthe abandoned child syndrome may remain years later showing up through insecurities and fears clinging behaviors or its oppositewalls to intimacy.
This article explores the use of your five senses to live in and fully enjoy the present. Focusing on being in the moment enables one to come from a positive place when dealing with day-to-day stressors as well as planning and achieving long-term goals and desires.
The words of a child changed the stress of the day to joy and happiness. With his simple words and gesture, the dissonance of the day melted away and love filled my soul.
So how do we find meaning The first step is through personal experiences experiences through something to which we are familiar and through someone we value. Develop your appreciation of beauty that is heightening your sensitivity to beauty such as in great art or wonders in nature. The most important of all these type of experiences is the love we feel toward each other. To love another and to demonstrate this to such an extent as to allow your beloved to develop and by doing this we will find that we develop meaning ourselves. Love is the highest purpose to which we can aspire.
Mindfulness
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