Stand still, stand still and stop the sun! (May Sarten) Sunday afternoons are when I head to my poetry books, mindfulness texts and the laptop to make my notes for the meditation sessions I’ll be running in the week ahead. And here I am…blank page and a blank mind. Well, it feels like a blank mind but an … More Stop. Breathe. Wonder.
The ‘Holding Moment’ I’ve been thinking about moments of comfort. I think I’m fairly safe in saying that to live fully means that at some points in our lives we have to navigate dark times. And with the benefit of time we realise we can survive and learn, and that we can discover new ways of being … More That Mindful Monday Moment
One minute mindfulness Unfolding Hello friends! Here I am, pleased to be back after an interlude in posts due to what I will call ‘Random Universe Shenanigans’! I hope you find this Monday’s mindful moment a peaceful pause in your day. Have a great week, everyone! My husband said something recently that really made me … More That Mindful Monday Moment:
A Window Opens Somewhere: on being with ‘not knowing’ Donald Rumsfeld famously said, ‘There are known knowns…, known unknowns…and unknown unknowns.’ As I remember, his quote received quite a bit of comedic response. But at the time I heard this it did make me stop in my tracks. The concept of unknown unknowns had never … More That Mindful Monday Moment
Micro Zen: A return to the self Getting stuff done, fulfilling the big tasks, fitting it all in. They’re all important. But it’s so easy to get overwhelmed, to keep going even when our minds and bodies are tired and to think that taking a few moments to rest is a time-wasting indulgence. So often, even when we … More That Mindful Monday Moment
Happy National Haiku Day! Not only is this weekend an important celebration or holiday for many, it’s also National Haiku Day. ‘Hoorah! Put down the chocolate egg and pass me my haiku anthology immediately,’ I hear you cry! But you could do worse than searching out a Haiku today, or looking up how to write a … More A Breath Between Two Moments – in praise of the Haiku
The Peace of the Un-Captured Moment Sometimes inspiration comes at you from unusual places. In the aftermath of a migraine, I was struggling to get my mind into gear and to think of a subject for today’s post. To distract myself, I allowed myself to stray into my emails. “When do you feel most at peace?” was the … More That Mindful Monday Moment
Side-Stepping the Perfectionism Parrot “Perfection is the enemy of good,’ said Voltaire. I can’t tell you how often I’ve stared at the blank screen or the empty page – into the silence of the unknown – and actually felt butterflies in my stomach at the thought that I might be about to create total c**p! Letting … More That Mindful Monday Moment
Here’s something I’d like to try… Every Monday (life and migraines allowing!) I’ll offer a teeny, tiny mindful moment based around a text, an image or a thought. I hope you enjoy this first week’s offering. The Orchard Within How often have I done it – grabbed a piece of fruit from the bowl, bitten … More That Mindful Monday Moment
This is the 18th Mother’s Day (yes, I’m still counting) I will wake as a childless person. Of course, I was ‘childless’ in the years before those 18 but those were either years of hopeful wishing or of blissful ignorance of any desire to be a mother. I’ve spent more Mother’s Days than I care to remember … More ‘This being Human…’ The Childless Mother on Mother’s Day
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