“When you look at the flickering fire in glass candle jars, what are you thinking?”

If your recent life is as bad as mine, When I want to sum up, I find that there is really nothing worth summing up. I can barely hand over an answer sheet of "I am still alive", Then when you finish watching Soul, you may high-five

me somewhere in the world-yes, it doesn't matter if you accomplish nothing at the moment, what you have to do is to give yourself a space to be alone, take care of yourself and learn to meditate. Only in this way can you recognize yourself, live in the present, embrace life and feel life.

Pixar used the 23rd animated feature film to prove that it has gone deeper and further on the road of innovation.

While enjoying the shock brought by audio-visual, theme and plot, I am anxious about it. It seems that it doesn't intend to be an explosive IP, or even to face the main audience of cartoonschildren, but just become a small number of adults' night talk-come, let's talk  about life.

Oh, life? There's nothing to talk about. Especially when adults over 30 years old walk into the cinema, most people just want to look around, catch their breath and laugh in the gap of ordinary life, and then walk out of the cinema as if nothing had happened and continue to return to reality. But Soul is too much. Not only did it not pull you out of reality-as an cartoon, it gave up creating fairy tale fantasy wonderland-but it stuffed you back into the familiar world, noisy city, busy streets and crowded crowds … You still listened to the sound of the city, were flashing lights, and felt your smallness in the busy traffic.

Yes, this protagonist is as ordinary as you. Joe Gardner, a black music teacher, has the dream of a musician, but he is confined to an unimportant job in the school music classroom, and spends day after day with children who don't love music at all, only to barely get a gifted "iron rice bowl".

Soul gives up creating more beautiful and better fairy tales. There are no adventure kings, exploration captains and warriors. We see Joe on the screen just like Joe sees himself in another world-boring, boring and without tomorrow. If he also had a "monument" of life, the statue did not become a great man because of the patronage of death. He is still a person sitting by the washing machine waiting for the clothes to be washed in a daze, but he has become a sculpture without any surprise.

This dull look back is frightening. It really throws up a question we don't want to face when watching movies for entertainment:

Why am I alive?

I even think the creator is cruel. After all, Joe still has an obsession when he is an ordinary person. To be a jazz musician, he should at least shine on the stage of his dreams, even if it is only for a moment. And most people … we … if we don't even have Joe's minimal dreams (or "life goals"), then what are we doing for every day?

This question is so cruel that you have to face it, think about it and consider the urgency of its answer, because life suddenly comes to an end one day, and the biggest chance in life comes. That incomparably familiar question makes people tremble:

"If you were to die now, would you regret it?"

I hope you are sober when facing this problem, but in fact, you often don't know it. In daily life, meditation often brings you more thoughts and possibilities. Maybe at this moment, you need a lonely environment, light a candle, and quietly think about your current life and goals. Bring you the answer to this question through meditation.

Now I'm teaching you a very common method of meditation: Candle Meditation. Choose a comfortable sitting position, light a candle in a glass candle holder, and adjust the height of candlelight. The height that eyes can look up is the most appropriate. Sit 1.5 meters away from candlelight. The room is in a dim environment, which is conducive to focusing on the candlelight flame.

Close your eyes gently, adjust your breathing first, and slowly open your eyes after almost two minutes. You don't need to stare your eyes very big, keep your eyes relaxed and open naturally, focus on the inner flame of the flame, don't blink your eyes, and don't drift your consciousness. After three minutes, your eyes close gently and pay attention to the eyebrows, which is like the inner flame of candlelight.

At the moment, it ignites at your eyebrows. After one minute, your eyes open again and pay attention to the inner flame again.

After three rounds of reciprocating, gently lie on your back above the mat, pay attention to your consciousness above the tip of your nose in a corpsespreading posture, and continue to meditate. After ten minutes, slowly bring back consciousness, gradually quit meditation and return to natural breathing. Lie on your right side and get up. Put out the flame on the glass candle holder the meditation is over.

Now let me recommend a glass candle holder I use in meditation: Mosaic candle holder, I feel very good when I use it, because it is also a handicraft, which is made by craftsmen, creating its unique charm. When lighting candles, the irregular glimmer around the mosaic candle jar can make me easily enter the state of meditation, which feels very good. I think this mosaic candle holder is really special, the glass candle jar makes me focus more.

This mosaic glass candle holder helps me to recognize myself, live in the present, embrace life and feel life. When I see the mosaic candle holder, I hope you can also look at it, feel life and help you.