{"id":4471,"date":"2019-06-27T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:48:31","slug":"ritual-tracking-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/ritual-tracking-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"RITUAL: Tracking Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ritual:<\/p>\n

Consider your own experience of the acts and beings involved in memory and imagination\u2014before science enters the picture. Consider what memory and imagination are like from your inner experience\u2014not from the perspective or the studies of cognitive neuroscience or psychology. Science seeks truth and finds it, but the search here is for what supports that truth from within.<\/p>\n

Say, for example, that a person weighs 170 pounds, measurable by a standard scale. She may find it difficult or even impossible to pick up 170 pounds of deadweight, if she is not a weightlifter. But how does it actually feel to be 170 pounds? It doesn\u2019t feel at all like lifting deadweight. From the inside of her own experience of that 170 pounds, moving about in full health, she feels relatively light\u2014maybe even light as a feather. This is the inner perspective of memory and imagination that we\u2019re looking for. Our inner perspective does not cancel out the scientific perspective; they are complementary.<\/p>\n

Memory is fascinating. I encourage you to get interested in the ways of your own memory. It has a unity, like our physical bodies or a landscape have a unity, and this unity can be touched or awakened at almost every part of point.<\/p>\n

RITUAL\u2014TRACKING MEMORY<\/h4>\n

This small, simple, but very potent daily mental cultivation ritual has its roots in the practices of ancient Greek philosophers and mystics, as well as in the mindfulness practices of Buddhist lineages. Variations of it are used in therapeutic contexts to support survivors of abuse, war, and trauma of all kinds.<\/p>\n

This ritual serves two purposes. First, it heightens your awareness of your relationship to memory and to your experience of the present moments that are distinguishable from and underlie memory. Second, it attunes you to your everyday experiences.<\/p>\n

TIME: <\/strong>About 15 minutes<\/p>\n

MATERIALS:<\/strong><\/p>\n