A key component of mindfulness is the practice of bringing our awareness into the mundane, so that the stuff of everyday experience which lies between the extremes, becomes transformed by the quality of our attention. When we pause and look deeply enough to notice, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. The video below by Dietrich Ludwig truly …
This is a fascinating practice and says something quite profound about how we have this habitual tendency to get mentally ahead of ourselves. I’m not going to say too much more about it at this stage, but I look forward to your observations with an eager sense of anticipation…. Instructions The shorthand for this practice …
We know instinctively how to use loving eyes when we are falling in love, when we see a new baby or cute animal. Why do we not use loving eyes more often? In this practice we discover that our habitual way of looking at things is not particularly loving. More often than not it can …
This practice is about exploring our psychological attachment to the media that we use on a daily basis.
This practice is about the art of waiting and pausing, checking your internal state and using situations, that in the past you may have found frustrating, to your own best advantage.
The third practice of 2012 asks us to bring awareness to our speech by noticing those conversational idiosyncrasies that, if attended to, can reveal interesting things about ourselves…
This week’s mindfulness practice is an new slant on the age old adage “Tidy Your Room” . Can you bring the searchlight of your attention to work on some old stuff from the past?
Thoughts and reflections on the first of 52 Mindfulness Practices for 2012 – How can this exercise of Using Our Non-Dominant Hand, bring more presence and awareness into our lives?
How do we relate to this practice? What do you notice about yourself when you attempt it? What do you enjoy about it? What frustrates you about it? Let me know how you get on and sign up to my blog to get Practice 2 via email next week.
Join me to get your weekly mindfulness practice every Sunday – starting 1st January 2012. Experience some new and creative ways of bringing mindfulness into your daily life.
Here’s a powerful mindfulness practice for the holiday season. It’s more difficult than you think….!
I nearly hit a guy on a bicycle the other day with my car. I was indicating and taking the first exit left off a roundabout and this bicyclist shot past me on the inside lane attempting to go straight on and nearly ended up across my bonnet. I braked hard, he braked hard, we …