双语 ● Renew Your Life! Change Up the Routine 打破常规，开始新生活
Renew Your Life! Change Up the Routine 打破常规，开始新生活
◎ Elisha Goldstein
Abraham Joshua Herschel was one of the leading American Rabbis, theologians, and social activists of the 20th century. He said something that I’ll never forget and that has stayed with me since the moment I heard it. In his book God in Search of Man, he wrote, “Life is routine and routine is resistance to wonder.”
亚伯拉罕·约书亚·赫施尔是美国拉比的领军人、神学家、20世纪的社会活动家之一。他说的一句话我永远也不会忘记，自从第一次听到，那句话就在我的脑海中留下了深深的烙印。在《觅人的上帝》里，他写道：“生活就是习以为常；而习以为常，就是拒绝求知。”
There’s a true story of a man I have worked with who has spent his entire life believing that his ears were not symmetrical and therefore sunglasses always looked crooked on his face. He came to accept this over time, until he came in touch with mindfulness practice.
告诉你一个真实的故事。我有一个同事，他一直坚信自己的耳朵长得不对称，造成自己戴墨镜总是歪的。长年累月，他习惯了这种思想。直到有一天，在仔细观察下，才发现情况并非如此。
One day as he was standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom he chose to take a moment to come down from his busy mind, become present, and really look at himself. What he noticed was astonishing.
那天，他站在浴室的镜子前，什么也不想，只是静下心来，沉浸在此刻。他仔仔细细地打量着镜子里的自己。然后，他惊呆了。
He suddenly realized that he had not been standing straight and that one shoulder was slightly lower than the other. In that moment, he chose to stand up straight and low and behold his eyeglasses were no longer crooked on his face. All this time he thought his face was lopsided in some way when in effect, it was his posture.
他突然发现，自己一直佝偻着身子站立，因此两侧肩膀一边高一边低。在那一刻，他决定挺直腰板来，当他这么做的时候，脸上的眼镜也随之戴正了。他一直以为长歪的是自己的脸，却没想到，真正的问题出在自己的姿势上。
This story is just a metaphor for the rest of us in our lives. Over time, what do we just get used to and learn to accept that keeps us limited in how we see things? What in our lives has become routine to a point that we have lost our sense of wonder in this world?
这个故事不也暗喻了我们其他人的生活吗？随着时间的流逝，我们习惯了什么？接受了什么？——那些东西是否局限了我们的视角？我们是否对某些东西太习以为常，以至于麻木了感官，不再对这个世界充满好奇？
When dealing with a myriad of mental health conditions (e.g. stress, anxiety, depression, or addiction), we get stuck in routine ways of reacting to things. A challenge may arise and the automatic reaction is “who cares, I’ll never succeed anyway.” As we become accustomed to this, it can be likened to unknowingly walking around with crooked posture. Once we become aware of it, we can begin the process of straightening ourselves out.
当我们处理无数有关心理健康的问题时（如压力、焦虑、抑郁或者上瘾），我们就会陷入惯常的反应中来应对。当我们遇上挑战，也常常不由自主地告诉自己：“管它呢，反正我不可能成功。”我们对自己的反应习以为常，就像我的同事蜷曲着走路却毫不自知一样。然而，一旦我们意识到这个问题，我们便可以自我矫正，重新开始。
It’s a worthy question to explore: What do you notice in your life that’s routine?
这是一个值得探讨的问题：你的生活中有哪些习以为常的习惯？
Do you watch TV every night? Do you take the same route to work every day? If you are in a relationship, do you sleep on the same side of the bed night after night or does only one of you cook the meals or clean? Do you often shoot down new ideas? Do you react to stress or pain with routine avoidance? Is this routine taking away the wonder in everyday life?
你是否每天看电视？是否每天选择同一条路线去上班？当你恋爱时，是否总是睡在床的同一侧？你和你的恋人，是否总是固定一个人做饭洗碗？你是否习惯毙掉新的观点？是否习惯了逃避痛苦和压力？你是否因为自己的习以为常，而正在丧失生活的乐趣？
To do: Pick one thing from your “routine list” and choose to begin becoming aware of it and switching it up.
快行动吧：从你的“常规清单”中选择一项，意识到问题，然后改变。
