mindfulness when you are ill

mindfulness when you are ill

when your body chimes a dissonant note you are sometimes caught by fear shadows gather close around you what might happen? how will you cope? what help is there? how soothing it is to set aside worry and anchor in NOW in this spacious moment you are free In your...
Mindfulness whats and whys

Mindfulness whats and whys

this poem comes with instructions let each line be a breath don’t rush mindfulness is to be intensely aware what do you smell? what do you hear? what do you taste? what are you touching? what do you see? How do you feel? no need to judge no need to tell stories about...
I will open to this moment

I will open to this moment

right now, right here this moment is thrumming like the pulse of a hummingbird we are so busy lives spent rushing doing one thing after another forgetting to be sit down next to me let’s breathe together and look into each other’s eyes with warm regard seeing there...
Embodied mindfulness

Embodied mindfulness

I (along with a group of friends) been working with The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning by Resmaa Menakem. The book teaches embodied anti-racism. Each chapter includes “body practices”...
Living in THIS moment…

Living in THIS moment…

Every morning, I take the vow above. Sometimes I think “I vow to live fully in this moment.” Sometimes I think I vow to live in this moment fully.” Both are mindful, but there is an interesting difference. Fully in this Moment… Not any other moment,...