Today I'm grateful because my friend Dr. Jean invited me to do a guest post for her blog. Click {here} for some ideas around conflict resolution.
I've been thinking a lot about what it's going to feel like for our world to awaken and open back up, for us to feel comfortable again, to reunite and re-engage, to seek and find refuge while we reconnect.
This morning I sat in on a webinar led by Jon Kabat Zinn on
mindfulness and meditation and so many things resonated.
Here are some notes and takeaways that have me
pondering, reflecting, learning.
*Life is a beautiful mess.
*If you're not feeling the stress of this, you're not human.
*Life unfolds moment by moment.
*Don't lose or misplace your humanity.
*Drop in on the entirety of what's going on and don't miss the beauty.
*The landscapes of beauty can help us endure on breath at a time.
*Real meditation isn't pretending that you're able to transcend it all, but the ability to cultivate aspects of our humanity we may not know how to access yet.
*Meditation has no beginning and no end.
*Meditation gives us a way to be in wiser partnership with what's happening.
*Mindfulness is about attending, outwardly and inwardly.
*Every in breath is a new beginning.
*What you're looking for, you already have.
*Trust your instincts.
*Be who you are and let your heart hold whatever it needs to do and to be.
*Befriend the silence, stillness, and moments of wakefulness.
*Shelter in this timeless, infinitely portable present moment we call now.
*Pay attention to what the body is carrying.
*Come to rest in the embracing of your own breath;
let the breath occupy center stage.
*Surf on the waves of your breath and be bathed by it. Notice what's carried away by its intrinsic ability to dispel tension and grief, letting things be as they are.
*We don't end at the boundary of our skin; we all breathe the same air, mourn the same losses, transform ourselves together as we grow into what it means
to be human and to love what needs to be loved.
Which thoughts speak to you as we anticipate opening back up?
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