Posts Tagged ‘mindful moment’
quiet – good when you can find it
It was a noisy weekend. It featured a chainsaw for a backyard tree-pruning session, the use of an electric planer that rivals a dentist’s drill for shrillness, and four days and nights of random neighbourhood fireworks. In need of quiet, I was thoroughly enjoying our early morning bike ride where the loudest sounds were…
Read Morepractice makes practice
I love puzzles. All kinds. Jigsaw, crossword, mazes, lateral-thinking brain teasers. Although, I do find the last ones a tad frustrating since I tend to be too much of a linear, sequential thinker to consider the myriad of potential solutions. Usually end up thinking “how did I not come up with that answer?” when I…
Read Morethe myth of ‘living in the moment’
There was time when I would easily fall into a stony-eyed stare around people who used the language of ‘living in the moment‘. Even as someone who had been meditating for many years, I would secretly rebel with thoughts like “if you only knew what I was going through right now” or “if you could…
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