Mindful Mondays

03/02/2025

Looking forward to seeing you on wednesday evening at 7pm. Remember we have now moved to The Gym Braunton. Please contact me on 07812 018645 to book at place. Pre-booking is essential. Loving kindness to you 🙏

Looking forward to seeing you at 7pm - 8pm (Please note the change in time) at The Gym Braunton. Please contact me on 07812 018645 to book at place. Pre-booking is essential. Loving kindness to you 🙏

23/09/2024

28/11/2023

Monday 15th January 2024 - Mindful Monday with Mark Williams.

Mark Williams, celebrated author of countless books on Mindfulness including "Mindfulness - Finding Peace in a Frantic World" will be leading our usual graduate Monday evening session!

Everyone in our Community will be most welcome to join us!

The session will run as normal via Zoom 7 til 8 and Nick has invited Mark to talk about his most recent book "Deeper Mindfulness - The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World" - https://amzn.eu/d/cAHfGpI

So make sure you add the date to your calendar and look out for further information very soon!

27/02/2023

06/10/2022

It doesn't interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life's betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.

It doesn't interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
"Yes."

It doesn't interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me
who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me
where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know
what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know
if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Copyright 'The Invitation' by Oriah Mountain Dreamer: http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/

Art: Elena Arcangeli https://www.elenarcangeli.com/

08/12/2021

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08/09/2021

Mindful Mondays is starting again from 4th October 2021. 10am-11am, £5pp! Be lovely to see you all again properly after so long! Please email me if you require further more infomation or to let me know you are coming on maddymindfulness@gmail.com. (Only runs suring school term time.) See you soon. 🌹🌹🌹

08/09/2021

A poem I found recently and thought I'd share.
How to Live With My Body
my brain and
heart divorced
a decade ago
over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become
eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other
now my head and heart
share custody of me
I stay with my brain
during the week
and my heart
gets me on weekends
they never speak to one another
- instead, they give me
the same note to pass
to each other every week
and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:
"This is all your fault"
on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past
and on Wednesdays
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future
they blame each
other for the
state of my life
there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying
so,
lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut
who serves as my
unofficial therapist
most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage
and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me
~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up
last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head
I nodded
I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore
"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented
my gut squeezed my hand
"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed
my gut smiled and said:
"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"
I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away
"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future
your lungs are the perfect place for you
there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either
there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment
there is only breath
and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."
this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves
and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs
I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs
before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said
"what took you so long?"
~ john roedel

17/05/2021

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