Like many others in our field of dementia care, I have found that mindfulness practices like meditation gives me the resilience that is so essential to sustain my work. I was inspired for this month’s blog after a meditation during a podcast I follow: Home | The On Being Project.   Buddha observed and explained many aspects of human nature and suffering 2500 years ago that remain ever relevant today. The Buddhist allegory of The Two Arrows is a lesson related to how we choose to respond to a painful event. The first arrow, or triggering experience, causes the initial pain. The second arrow “is our reaction to the first. This second arrow is optional.” Looking at the Two Arrow analogy in a bio neurological way, our limbic system automatically kicks when triggered by a painful event, like the impact of an arrow, leaving us with only three options: fight, flight, or…