Standing Tall with Big Heart: Somatically, Mindfully, Creatively, Unceasingly
Question: What dilapidated and out-of-date mindset is not serving you?
Challenge: Name it. Cut the cord in your mind’s eye. Consciously breathe into this liberating moment as the old mindset floats away.
What are you aware of?
How is focusing on your breath different than just breathing?
Mindfulness Practice:
Without judgement step into curiosity and open yourself to life’s surprises that are just around the corner.
Without struggle, without judgement, without division I challenge all of us to relax as we take the action steps needed in the unfoldment of our precious human lives.
What are you aware of when you feel into the energy of flexible resiliency? Radiant love? Engaged compassion? Courageous kindness?
Mindful Practice
Give yourself permission to let go of moral judging. Witness everyone including yourself as though for the first time.
Consider what needs are going unmet in their world. Consider what needs are going unmet in yours. What one need can you meet for that person you have judged? And what one need can you meet for that part of yourself you have judged?
Flood your awareness with the energies of flexible resiliency, radiant love, engaged compasson and courageous kindness, How now are you viewing sentient beings including yourself?
Consider: How is your body responding when you do these mental exercises?
It’s your life ~ Your perceptions, your belief systems, your interpretations. Periodically they must be updated when they no longer serve you and this ever-changing world.
How to update them? Choose Beginners Mind to guide you with fresh eyes.
This mental training aka mental flossing is imperative to live a life of ~
•Courageous kindness
•Deep and engaged compassion
•Flexible resiliency
•Radiant love.
May these states embody you…now.
MIndfulness Practice for Today
What banquet are you not witnessing and participating in right now?
Imagine it is called the Banquet of Life Mandala.
•Step into it.
•Look around. What are you witnessing?
•Notice how your body, heart and mind are responding.
And now, something to contemplate:
If you gave 100% participation to your Banquet of Life Mandala , what would this day be like for you and all sentient beings?
Gift yourself this moment…
Welcoming all that arises, both the seen and unseen.
Steep yourself in the Mysteries of the Unknown…
Sans frameworks, boundaries, expectations…
With open hand to all that is…
No clinging nor grasping
Neither this nor that…
Just This.
….and then give thanks to the teachings you have received.
Notice how opening and giving thanks to every—single—thing shifts the energies…somatically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
If you’re procrastinating ~yet it needs to get done…
•Close your eyes tight and then open ’em wide
•Breathe in deeper than deep and exhale more than ever
•Click your heels three times
•Hold on to your hat (’cause you’re goin’ places!)
•Leap over the over-thinking of procrastination
•Now…Do it-whatever it is! Quickly, solidly and with gusto!
•What are you aware of?
