How to Keep Chronic Illness or Pain from Hijacking Your Spiritual Progress
For many of us on the spiritual path, the experience of physical illness or chronic pain presents one of the greatest challenges to our equanimity...
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Craig Hamilton
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Apr 30, 2020 12:45:00 AM
Disruption can be unsettling—but it can also open the door to radical creativity and transformation. The author Nassim Nicholas Taleb has written about the concept of being “anti-fragile,” which means becoming stronger in the face of adversity. This idea has strong parallels with Craig’s teachings on having “an evolutionary relationship to life.” What if we could relate to this difficult time we find ourselves in as a time to evolve into a stronger, more enlightened version of ourselves? In this 6-minute video, Craig explores how being anti-fragile is one of the most important evolutionary capacities we can use to navigate in this challenging moment.
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