Ep. 48 Chris Manning: Everything Is Going To Be Alright

Should we try to fix the world? Make it better tomorrow than it was yesterday? Should we try to fight what we perceive to be immoral actions and systems, injustices, to create a fairer, more compassionate world? And what does that fight look like? Is it a tick in the box of democracy? Is it taking to the streets to make our voices heard? Is it smashing those institutions that we perceive to be facilitating inequality, shouting in the faces of those who disagree? Is it to rage against this system that seems to serve some so well, while failing others so obviously? Or is it about choose to be the change we want to see in the world? Is it about raising our own standards and finding our own peace, so that the world itself, as corrupt and broken as it might seem, doesn’t corrupt and break us? How do we even know that our values – our politics, our beliefs, our own understanding of right and wrong, of fair and unfair – are even correct? How can we assume that we’re not the bad guys? The road to hell is, as they say, paved with good intentions. Perhaps, then, the way we heal the world is to first heal ourselves, and our relationship with the world. To shed all those things that aren’t us, and which serve to prevent us accessing all dimensions of the multifaceted nature of being, so that we can become beacons to others, encouraging – but not expecting – them to heal themselves too. Perhaps a world of healed individuals will become a world healed. These are some of the themes I touched on in my conversation with Chris Manning, aka Mindfulness Man, and the founder of the rapidly growing Facebook group Mindfulness in Daily Life (www.facebook.com/groups/mindfulnessindailylife). We explored how to find peace, how to let others feel seen, and how to change the world one soul at a time – starting with our own.

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