What to do when you don't know what to do

As I was writing this retro-post yesterday, I re-read some of Eva Pierrakos’ "lectures".

In one of them (can’t remember which one!), I found the following "practice" that I applied right away to some apparently unsolvable dilemma I had been carrying along for the last few days – and it brought me out of this foggy patch. Here’s the practice:

Whenever you are confused about a situation, you need to meditate on the three levels of reality:

1. What you think is happening (clarify your own feelings)
2. What it really happening (change perspective, etc)
3. What could happen (the myriad possibilities).

This is how I meditated last night. On 1, 2, and 3. The light came right away, the fog lifted completely. It took me about 15 minutes just lying on my bed and focusing intensely on the issue using this framework – not with my mind, but with my whole self.