☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: When Dark Makes Light More Meaningful

Chiaroscuro in real life.

1. Morning Contemplation

🎧 You can find the audio version of this morning’s contemplation below.

Good morning.

In Reasons To Stay Alive, Matt Haig describes anxiety as a "full-time occupation of gale-force worry." That feels about right. Anxiety consumes days, trapping you between fearing the future and dwelling on the past.

People say, "live in the moment," but what does that mean? The actor Jim Carrey is quoted as providing this concise definition: If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.