Tags: anxiety, craving, endings, fear, meditation, now, Pema Chodron, presence, progress, relationship, self-sabotage, stillness, upset, wanting
Why are we scared of making progress?
I’m about to go to bed after a good but tiring first day back at school with the children, but I wanted to post briefly about something that’s been on my mind… It has struck me recently that sometimes I actually hamper my own progress because I am frightened. I am talking about spiritual progress, or essentially about coping with a particular difficult life circumstance. I think that many of us do this. In the particular, personal situation I am thinking of (moving on from a complicated relationship) I feel sometimes that I am actually doing a lot better than