For some, depending on the practice, just focusing on one's breath can bring about extreme anxiety or worry thoughts, bringing to mind a loved one can bring about grief and loss, imagining oneself as a young child can bring about sadness or pain, considering the suffering of all beings may bring about guilt or overwhelm.
TO UNDERSTAND Wednesday's decision by federal regulators to let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac set aside less cash to protect against losses, imagine a family that keeps its precious antique silver in a strongbox on a high shelf, beyond easy reach.
He said he was at a loss to imagine the future.
As to what glaring through such a thing might signify, this reviewer is at a loss to imagine.
He says about the first two on this list (and would no doubt extend the comment to the others): "If some one accepts these notions outright for such use, I am at a loss to imagine what he can have deemed more in need of clarification and analysis than the things he has thus accepted" (1981, 184).
In Man in the Dark, a widower fantasises an escape from the pain of his loss by imagining an America where 9/11 never happened.
MTV News called Neighborhoods the "bleakest thing Blink have ever done, haunted by specters both real — depression, addiction, loss — and imagined," noting the constant lyrical mention of death in many tracks.
"What is too much?" I asked, at a loss for imagining a situation that he may have encountered in our beautiful and safe hometown, a world class tourist destination as well.
Despite increasing memory loss, Erika imagines the following scenario about her own possible future, 'Well, I wish to stay healthy.
"But as a father, I feel a deep sense of loss and can imagine your pain.
