Tag: #clouds

Peaceful Waking

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This week, when waking, try to find a peaceful center before you do anything else.  Allow your mind to come into consciousness, breathe into your belly and back, feel the sheets under you, let the breath reach into your toes and your fingers, and be at peace.  Do not allow thinking to be present that would hinder your oneness with feeling. You are worth taking the first minutes of your waking day to generate calm and ease about yourself.  Bring awareness to your gratitude for the moment in which you find yourself awake.  If you have created space in your routine for stretching or exercise you can move into that from here.  If your routine involves getting up straight away to hustle, these first moments in the morning can be a grounded beginning to your day of activity.  This attention to the manner in which you wake can also serve as a base point for other times in the day that you may feel off balance.  Go back to your peaceful center whenever you need.

Clouds & Being There

I want real things –
live people to take hold of
to see-
and to talk to-
Music that makes holes in the sky-

Georgia O’Keeffe

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Finding the Positivity in today:

  1.  Think of the things that make you feel grateful.  This can be and is encouraged to be simple.  Is there a warm cup of tea or coffee in your day?  Can you feel your feet on the ground when you stand?  Are you able to feel the breath in your body?  Each and every moment has something for which you can feel gratitude, if you choose.
  2.  Spend time focusing on these things and minimize anything in your thinking that does not make you feel good.  If you have a tendency to fixate on problems you can practice minimizing by recognizing the thought when it comes, acknowledge it with words like “I see you there”, and then dismiss the thought that diminishes your happiness by releasing it.  Learning to use the mind as a tool takes practice and will become easier with time.  Know that you are responsible for your thoughts and what you allow to be present in your thinking.  You deserve to focus the majority of your thoughts with areas that are uplifting, tapping into an internal source which flows compassion for humanity.
  3.  Write down the things you are thankful for each day and take note of how this feels.  Try it for a week and recognize if there is a change in your ‘being’.