Author: Ann-Marie

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Love magnetizes love

When we live from our heart the love unfolds and aligns with love that has gone unnoticed.

In other words: Love finds love like an external magnetic field.

A Mindful Practice:
Go into the world and look into the eyes of everyone who crosses your path. As you see them silently say “I love you”.

No exceptions.

Notice what arises.  Notice the aliveness in your BodyMind when love permeates both inside and out.  Notice how life pulsates in a richer way with love as its companion.

Notice…and repeat!

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Noise and U-Turns

Noise comes to us in many forms and from many directions. Before it dominates your consciousness do a U-Turn.

Go inside into the deep silence.

Let yourself be embraced by silence. Absorbed by silence. Let yourself become silence.

Then after silence has hydrated you, come back into the Outer World accompanied by your ally, Silence.

Investigate the noise with Silence as the core.

What do you notice?

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Tell me…

What is one good thing about being overwhelmed?
Burned out?
Stressed?
Exhausted?

Notice your choices today.

Notice where your fingerprints need not be….

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Barn Owl Agreement

My outer life is a reflection of my inner life.

Each time she exhales her short screech into the dark night I exhale all that is not needed. She is a balm spreading over this night of unreined thoughts.

She connects me to the dark skies as they lighten in the east reminding me the sun will rise yet again over the Sangre de Cristos of my mind.

My outer life is a reflection of my inner life. Ann-Marie from My Commitment Credo

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Listen as ordinary sounds transform into a symphony

A Mindfulness Practice for Today

•Living in Beginners Mind go to your favorite café when it’s noisy
•Follow your body’s lead on where to sit
•Order your favorites
•Waiting…relax and deepen into the spaciousness where judgements, resentments and expectations do not live
•Breathe into the sounds around you

*Let the sounds organize themselves into a symphony
•Listen for the melody.  The rhythmic beat.  The harmonics.
•Listen as you would to Yo-Yo Ma, Keith Jarrett or Chick Correa
•Let yourself be inspired by the transformation
•What is alive in you?

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Finding stability in an unstable world

One antidote is to simply let the breath guide us into stability. Sit like a strong mountain inhaling and exhaling slowly for five minutes.

Sitting upright like a mountain in the midst of instability.
Southern Colorado 190820

Over time as you focus and cultivate your practice increase the breathwork from five minutes once a day to five minutes three times a day.

As you cultivate this skill your mind and body will engage in calmness and relaxation. It is truly common to feel the stability of a mountain as you continue to practice. Your thoughts will slow down and retire to the back plateau of your mind.