It was an interesting discussion last night with a good friend of mine. Problems come and go in life, and our minds can often be flooded with these issues making it difficult to thing, concentrate, and solve problems, let alone stay sane in day to day life. A common thing taught today to supposedly help deal with this is to find your safe place. This is a sort of target to focus on. A place that is free from these troubles where you can focus and deal with what you need to.
I have to ask myself if this is always best. It would seem that when one meditates and goes to their “cave”, or “tunnel”, or “field”, or whatever, that they are simple going into a room, closing the door, locking it, and letting their issues wait outside. The side effect of this would seem to be that once you open the door they are there again to assault you. They weren’t dealt with.
I’m no doctor so I speak with no authority. Most times I prefer, however, to turn up my music and let the problems in, and flood my mind. And then I attack them, working at them in my mind one at a time. This works for me quite a bit. Not all the time, mind you, cause everyone has to escape sometimes.
And no, I’m not discussing this to answer anyone’s question, or to advise, or anything else wise or good. I’m merely speaking aloud, giving voice to my thoughts.
In other news I had a random person in my temporary Jedi Academy server offer to let me use his for a bit. I admit I am skeptical. What’s in it for him? He is paying for this after all, so why let someone else use it, for free? I did set it up, however, because very little harm can come of us using it. So I was up till 2am setting it up. Stupid Linux and its permissions. :p