Fully Mindful

06/23/2023

The Oxherd Boy ❤️

06/07/2023

Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,
And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

~ Khalil Gibran ~

Artist Credit : Patti Deters

05/18/2023

Mindful parenting!

It may sound counterintuitive, but if you want to take charge as a parent, stop trying to control your child, says psychologist and author Shefali Tsabary. Her new book, "The Parenting Map," lays out a step-by-step guide for creating conscious parent-child relationships.

01/15/2023

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

IMAGE: By Daniella Willett-Rabin

01/10/2023

01/08/2023

This quote speaks to the challenge of loving yourself…yes all of yourself. The light and the dark. The parts that are easy to love AND the parts that carry shame, messiness, hurt, longing, loneliness. And yet, this is the task set before all of us, as difficult as it may be, to truly, deeply, fully, accept and welcome all of yourself into the open space of awareness and stand inside this excruciatingly beautiful Self.
I’ll pair tonight’s reflection and stunningly beautiful sunset with this quote from Carl Jung:

“To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing, red-hot iron; it burns into you and that is very painful.
Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us.
You cannot stay away from yourself forever. You have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question - whether you can love yourself. And that will be the test.”
~Carl Jung

01/03/2023

There is joy and an important sense of renewal in each effort to begin again. In this way, meditation is not about the creation of a singular experience but about changing our relationship to experience. How do we react when uncomfortable thoughts emerge? And how do we react when we notice that we’re distracted by these uncomfortable thoughts? Can we begin again without rumination and regret?

When thoughts drift during the micro world of meditation, we learn that there is no benefit to be gained from berating ourselves, or from wishing fervently that we had been focused on our chosen object (say the breath) the entire time. We strengthen our minds and our meditation practice each time we recognize these distractions, let go, and begin again. Because it is a fractal of life, meditation is a dynamic practice, one that involves cultivating the art of self-compassion, of learning to relate to ourselves in a new and more forgiving way.

The invitation to begin again (and again and again) that meditation affords is an invitation for the practice of self-compassion — to heal through letting go rather than harming ourselves with cycles of self-doubt, judgment, and criticism. Beginning again is a powerful form of resilience training.

Each time we become distracted or lost in our judgments, assumptions, and other thoughts, we can return to the moment, the most portable and dependable resource at our disposal. We see that no matter what, we can always begin again.

12/27/2022

Feelings are just visitors.
Let them come and go..

Mooji

12/04/2022

12/03/2022

Welcoming in the holidays… and leaning into our self-compassion practices 🙏🏽

12/01/2022