Dear dragonlily:

When it seems like the end, there is nowhere to go but to a beginning. Not the beginning of before, as there is no way to go back in time and reverse injuries that took their toll on you. Not the old beginning, trying to revive old interests, but a new beginning.

In a new beginning you know nothing, you expect nothing. You look around you, looking at you, at your life with new eyes, as if for the first time. There is a name for this kind of looking, it is called a “Beginner’s Mind”-

Everything you knew before is questionable, and there is so much to learn anew.

To use a “Beginner’s Mind” pay attention, be mindful, that is, of everything you do in your daily life- are you familiar with the concept of being Mindful?

anita