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Tag: mindful
Not So Mindful Monday!!
I was walking along with my kids one Monday evening and with a jolt out of my inner ramblings I realised the river had flowed the day before!! We had celebrated the rain and hoped the river would flow.....but somehow we had ended up relishing a wet, cool day at home and not gone anywhere!… Continue reading Not So Mindful Monday!!
Mindful Breathing really helped me get through a very intense weekend with the extended family, thank you for these wise words! I am loving reading Thich Nhat Hahn's book FEAR (that I found at the airport bookshop on the weekend) with such practical strategies on how to be mindful and honour and reassure ourselves around… Continue reading
Very important for this time of year, thank you Karl!
Mindful Making
Pots Pinched With Love. Each one of these pots is made from the same bit of paper clay and rolled into a small table tennis ball size before being pinched with love and care as a gift to a loved one! I let go of the outcome, embrace the imperfection and enjoy the process of… Continue reading Mindful Making
Mindful Swimming
Phew! 36 degrees in the desert and by some weird quirk of fate NO air conditioning working at home or work! With questions spinning in my head of 'How can that be? and What does it mean? and How will we cope?' I head to the 50 m pool. Aaaaahhhhh the beautiful cool water, the lovely… Continue reading Mindful Swimming
Nature moments that woke me up!
I'd love to say that I haven't written a blog for awhile because I have been so mindful(!) but alas the opposite has been true! However I am learning that even in the tough stressful times we can find things that jerk us back into the present moment, and wake us up either in a pleasant… Continue reading Nature moments that woke me up!
Mindful Compassion For Ourselves
Have you ever found that you mindfully tune into the tension in your body (for me: neck and shoulders) and then NOT so mindfully beat yourself up about it? I do! I attempt to ‘let it go’ and then proceed to subtly (or not so subtly) put more effort and more tension into getting rid… Continue reading Mindful Compassion For Ourselves
5 Mindful Minutes
This mindful blogging is working! I am definitely feeling more aware and more mindful! It’s so nice to know there are many others out there exploring the same thing too! Thank you! In the past 3 months when I was immersed in a new job and long hours all my resolutions to meditate went out… Continue reading 5 Mindful Minutes
Mindful Feet
So at the beginning of this ' find more mindful moments' pledge I have just in the last 24 hours focussed on my feet! Whenever I think about it, particularly in an interaction with one of my kids ( that may or may not be slightly tense) I focus on my feet; where are they?,… Continue reading Mindful Feet